Terrible Earthquake
ITALIAN TOWNS AND VILLAGES DAMAGEP. HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE. CHURCHES AND HOUSES WRECKED. II r Cable—Press Association—Copyright Received 10, 5.5 p.m. Rome, May 9. 'An earthquake severely damaged Acini le and neighbouring villages. Doctors and nurses with tents have been sent to succour the homeless. Thirty dead and one hundred and twenty badly injured have been extricated from the debris. Many of the small villages were stricken during the night, and it is expected that the list of casualties will bo doubled. At Santa Catalina the population of •2183 was destroyed. Hundreds of houses and churches have collapsed elsewhere. Mount Etna is increasingly active.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 290, 11 May 1914, Page 5
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106Terrible Earthquake Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 290, 11 May 1914, Page 5
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