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Evening Post, Volume XXVI, Issue 74, 25 September 1883, Page 4

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/aintropho (says a correspondent of •men, London) koo.tis to have boon proud by somo natural signs of dangor which woro remarked by vory few portion, and tV lpiscd by thoso who noticod thorn. On tho morning of the 24th of July, at B.SO, subterranoan thunder wan heard, accompanied by a slight trombling of tho ground. Tho inhabitants of tho inland, howevor, not boMoving in any roa danger, and anxioua not to alarm the visitors to tho baths, either did not spo.ik of tho shock or when questioned explained it as duo to tho bursting ol a tubo in ono of tho bath houses. Thus, as has so often happonod, disregard of Nature's warnings lian reunited in an appalling loss of human l : "o. It hod also been noiicod by a fow individuals that from tho bo^iuning of the fatal weok tho steam issuing from tho hot springs was no longer clear and Imnnparont, but thick and black. Tho wcathor, wliioh was frosh and lino until Fiklay, changed. on Satnrday to misty, tho air beinf charged with electricity and was hotter. Tho correspondent of tho Duily Nowh in Naploa noticou that the stars on Saturday ovoning woro quite obscured by mist, rondoring tho night oapocirlly dark ; and ovon on Sunday morning thoro was a hoavy, hot atmosphere, and an indescribably fotid smoll hang'ng over tho oity, whioh may havo boon owing to the gases having been forood out of tho sowors by tho earthquake. In laohia, an old man of moro than 70 years wont to tho Bishop and said that he had noticed signs of an iraminont calastroijho; bnc ho was taken for an idiot, and his waving was disregarded. At 0.341 on Saturday evening, immediately boloi'O tho ea*l,l - qnako, mo.s'c of tho population of Cusamicciula had retirod to bod. Tho bathing visitors woro nasemblod oithor in tho drawing-rooms of tho hotola and villas, tho HtiluoiiH of tho bath establishments, or at tho thoatro. At Lacoo tho inhabitants wore n'l in bod. for tho poasant goes to bed with tho animuls and rlaos at dawn. At Foiio thoro was a church foatival, and a band was playing in tho squaro. Tho oarthquako was hoard iv'l ovor tho island liko tho oxplomion of a, irino, ami tho shook lasted about 15 Hocondn, tho movomont boing at first vortioal and th on undulating. Tho contro of tho shook wns half-way down tho alopos of Monto Kpomr 0, and rndiatsd both upwards and dow awards, doHtroj Inir Casamiooiola bolow and Barrnno and Sorrano-Fontana abovo. In tho 15 soconds of tho shook all Casamiooiolft, with tho orcoption of throo or four housoa, was Wi-oakod. AU tho houses of Lacco, oxcopt a fow on tho soa beaoh, and nil tho uppor part of Forio woro dostroyod. TllO high road botweon tho latter placo and Casamicoiola was broken up and rendorod impassablo for a long distanoe. Two landslips foil from Monte Epomoo, covorlng largo traota of vineyards and oroharda, and complotoly burying tho fow houaoß situated thovoin. Tho telegraph lino being brokon no mossago could bo sent to Naples, and th's was paiOly tho reason wb" v holp arrived so lato on Sunday. Luok-'.C ono of tho steamers plying between N» n \Z, and the island was in tho little port, or j'Vf? aa soon as possible with «v few »fv '" .*„ tiko tho sad news to Naples. M " g Ti Ijhoso who had escaped vjUmti had presence pf mjnd ouough not tr , fl J T at 3ommonced,thau ? lxwitgouta.d' d X^ 8 S*£r \ J or te * nonrson Sunday, of Lor * OVa0 V ar .rf a'\tho pw jor'-jg night, he bound up brokon ''ipbß nnr t wounds. No less noblo waa the conduct 0 f a priest of tho town of ißohfo, who ha^^er • d to tho reaouo, and many contlomon who orrived from Naplos on Sunday woro also hr jroio iv risl-'ng their lives to savo othors. It waa found that tho aufferora wo-o gonera^y so stupefied that they had lost almost alla 11 sensation. Thoy underwent Bovore amputations and operations without uttering a Bound. The uninjured porsons who bogan to (Vop into the publio Bquare at aevou a.m. on Sunday appoarod porfootly crazed. Ono man, a lemonade sol tor, who had with his ovvii hands dug out tho corpses of his throe ohildren, neithor wept nor gave any sign of omotion, but offered tho lemonado to passers-by, refusing paj-uent. A woman who undeiwonfc an oporation with por'cot oulmnoas merely said when it was finished, "I had fivo ohildrun, and they aro all dead, ovon tUo baby of 18 months, who was so pretty." Anotlnr, meetiug an acquaintance, said, in a quite ordinary tono, 1 My fathor, mothot, and throo of my children aro dead." Anothor led a little girl by tho haud, sajiug, "Your mother and brothers aro doad, and now wo two n.ro alono." No 000 soroamod; no ono oried. A Noipolitau gentleman who had lost his two daughters sat on the sea-beach immovable oa a statue. The Duko and Duchess of Calabril to sat calmly waiting li'l tho corpse of thoir liutle son should bo osoavatod ; and tho DnohobS, wlion a3kod if aho had uny othor ohllc^ou, ropliod with a bimplo " No."