VESUVIUS CLOUD-BURST.
DEAD BODIES IN THE STREETS. PEOPLE SWEPT INTO THE SEA. By Cable —Press Association—Copyright. Rome, October 20. Tlie main street at Cetara is filled with mudheaps, among which the bodies of women and children are partially visible. Four hundred houses are destroyed, and the rescuers are unable to reach them, the village sea-front being littered wi|h ruined houses. > Amalfi is isolated. A raging torrent Suddenly swept a number of houses down from the higher slopes and carried the inmates into the sea. Fifteen bodies have been recovered. THE DEATH-ROLL. RUNS INTO HUNDREDS. Received 28, 12.55 a.m. Naples, October 27. It is now estimated that upwards of 200 persons perished at Cetara. It is feared that the complete death-roll will reach 300. At Majori fifty people perished. Kin" Emanuel has visited Iscia.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 171, 28 October 1910, Page 5
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133VESUVIUS CLOUD-BURST. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 171, 28 October 1910, Page 5
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