GREAT DISASTERS.
THE AWFUL KARTIIQUAKUS IN TURKEY. NEARLY. A THOUSAND PEOPLE PERISH, DEVASTATED! CYCLONE IN SICILY, HUNDREDS OF LIVES LOST. GERMAN STEAMER FOUNDERS. By telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright. CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. ”7, Great loss of life was occasioned by tiie recent earthquake. 'File number of fatalities already report'.'! amount to six hundred ami six-ty-seven. Those people were killed in the Kashgan district, including Artush A thousand people were injured. After the earthquakes extreme heat was experienced.
ROME, Sept. 67. A cyclone lasting twenty-four hours swept over Catania, Sicily. During tiie storm a German steamer foundered.
Great havoc was done by swollen streams.
It is estimated that four hundred perished at JModica. One hundred bodies have !>eeii recovered
The Hood swept everything irom the ground floors of tiie lower siieets. Great damage was done inland. The torrent destroyed bridges ami roads. Several houses, with their inmates, Sicily, were washed away. The craters of the Volcano and tiie Stromboli are again active.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 533, 29 September 1902, Page 2
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