DEATH-ROLL MOUNTING UP.
MANY STILL IN THE RUINS. TROOPS ASSISTING IN RESCUE WORK. .(Received June 14, 9.5 a.m.) PARIS, 14th June. Several deaths from the earthquake are reported to have occurred . at St. Cannat, twelve miles north of Aix, where many are still buried in the ruins. Every house in some streets is destroyed. The damage is estimated at over a million francs. Many people in Marseilles remained all night in fishing boats. Twenty thousand persons gathered on the quays. Troops are assisting in rescue work. The dead were mostly killed while ►sleeping.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 139, 14 June 1909, Page 7
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