NATURE’S HAVOC.

Evening Star, Issue 11695, 29 September 1902, Page 6

NATURE’S HAVOC.

CYCLONES AND EARTHQUAKES,

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. ROME, September 27. A cyclone, lasting twenty-four boors, swept ever Catania, Sicily. Gre.'jt havoc was done by the swollen streams. It is estimated that , 400 perished at Modica. One hundred bodies have . already 1 been recovered. The flood swept everything on the ground floors of the lower*, streets away. The torrent inland destroyed bridges and roads. Several houses, with their inmates, in other villages were washed away. A German ship foundered. , j The craters of Etna' and StromboH are active. k • CONSTANTINOPLE, September 26. * The number of deaths caused by the earth-, quakes in the Kashgar district, including Artush, is 667, while the injured number 1,000.' Extreme heat was experienced-after the earthquakes. . ETNA EMITTING STEAM. * ROME, September 28. (Received September 29, at 8.57 a.m.) §kty' ilersoos were drowned at SdclL Tb«; damage paused in the province of Syracuse estimated ai£2oo,obo. s Mount Etna is emitting steam in the vicinity of the 1892 eruption. Two fresh craters.j.bave appeared upon StroxnbolL. . • -v----[Catihais situated at the foot of. MountEtna. , Tbe city / haa a noble appearance 1 from the sea, and contains many magnificent buildjngSj, fifty churches.The university was founded in 1445. . The city is supposed to;havebeen. founded by tie Phoenicians. Tt, wa 3 ; occupied by the Roman?,:' and v Msy to 4;hi3~. day ruins of the splendid‘ %»e ’of the amphitheatrevt^ng.Hheimi&t exteiwive of their f kind.,knp’fch .tq ; exists " Stromboli is rijmaredl6n jjihe Lipariilslands, near is almost