Severe Earthquake

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 185, 15 January 1915, Page 5

Severe Earthquake

:-:■:!;:< :i« nAMA;;E cais;:ix MANY DEATHS REPORTED. ST. PETER'S SEEKER >. THE POPE ENJOINS PRAYERS. Received 10, 1:2.22 am. Rome, January 11. An i artliquake shock was felt from Ancona. to Naples at. 8 o'clock on Wednesday morning. Eighty buildings were damaged in Rome, and the colonnade of St. Peter's suffered considerably, while 150 windows were shattered in the Basilica. The shock was severely felt at . the Vatican, and the Pope invited everybody; to pray.

The column of Marcus Aurelius was broken in various places, the bas-rciinfs being irreparably damaged. The effect in the provinces was severe. Reports have been received of many deaths, and oi people being wounded in all parts. The shock lasted 70 seconds. hi Naples one Palace sul'i'i-rcd severely. Avczzano was completeyl destroyed, also all the buildings in the surrounding country. The bulk of the 800 survivors were injured. Many villages are in ruins, and relief has been sent.

GREAT LOSS OF LIFH. VICTIMS BURIED IN DE. . .-<. POTENZA CUT OFF. CRAVE DISASTER FEARED. ' Received 15, 1.5 a.m. Rome, January 14. .Forty deaths occurred at Aquila, and several hundred were, injured. Ten dead persons and 150 injured have already been taken from the ruins at

Ifola del Liri. .Many houses collapsed at Sora. Twenty dead were found at Villalaco. Uany victims are believed to have •Ijen buried in the debris of the townships of Popoli and Pentima. The inhabitants of Tivoli are camping in the open air. The official report states that the earthquake was the most disastrous experienced in the district, with a radius of 100 miles, whose centre is probably t'.ie province of Potenza. Communication' with Potenza is severed, and it .is feared there has been a grave disaster there. Received 14, 8.30 p.m. London, January 14. Renter reports that only eight hundred were saved at Avezzano out of a population of eight thousand.