DISASTROUS CYCLONE.
MANY HUNDREDS KILLED.
Press Association. Electric Telegraph, Copyright. Received September 28, 5 p.m. Rome, September 27. A cyclone lasting 24 hours swept over Catania, Sicily.
A German steamer foundered. Great havoc was done. Swollen
streams existed.
Four hundred people perished at Modica. One hundred bodies haxe been recovered.
Floods swept everything away on the ground floors of the lower streets.
The torrent inland destroyed roads and bridges, and several houses with the inmates at Scicli were washed
away.
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Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVI, Issue 227, 29 September 1902, Page 2
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