EARTHQUAKE.
I GREAT LOSS OF LIFE. TWO. HUNDRED; KILLED.. IN ONE VILLAGE. '. CATHEDRAL COLLAPSES. r " : TOWNS PARTIALLY DESTROYED. BV TELEGEAFH—PRESS ASSOCIATION—CCrmiGIiT. ' ' Rome, October 25. . An earthquake killed 200 people at Ferruzzano, near and. injured, many others. ' 1 ■ Tho Cathedral at Gerace, containing valuable works of art,' collapsed. ■. ■ . Gerace, Sinopole,. Urancaleona, Santa Eufemia, and Bianconoro aro partially destroyed. , There wore. numerous fatalities at these places. . The total number of persons injured is 400.'. V. : Torrential rains aggravate tho situation, and impedes the ■ rescue work. ■The (district'affected-is the'"toe" of Italy, the peninsula from which the island of Sicily stands out like, an impelled football. Tho volcanic Lijiari Islands : (incjuding the .active Stromboli) lie off the coast, and Vesuvius and Etna are witliin.easy range. Gerace issit'uated four miles from' the. sea, and thirty-seven miles from Hegßio, and. has a population of about 9000. The cathedral \vas destroyed in the earthquako of 178!),' and was rebuilt. '
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 27, 26 October 1907, Page 5
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