TERRIFIC CYCLONE.
THREE THOUSAND HOUSES DESTROYED. MANY LIVES LOST. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. LONDON, 6th September. The Daily Chronicle 'ieports that a cyclone has swept the Catania district, in Sicily, which suffered with Messina id the terrible earthquake disaster that overwhelmed Southern Italy a few months ago. Three thousand houses were destroyed in Scordia, a town of about 10,000 inhabitants, seventeen miles south-west of the city of Catama, anfi centre of a great orange-growing district. Sixty persons have been entombed under the ruins of their houses, and many others were injured by flying debris. Miles of countiy have bee., denude 1 ? of all vegetation.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 59, 7 September 1909, Page 7
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105TERRIFIC CYCLONE. Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 59, 7 September 1909, Page 7
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