REPORTS OF GREAT DAMAGE.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVIII, Issue 110, 12 May 1914, Page 5

REPORTS OF GREAT DAMAGE.

MANGLED VICTIMS BURIED -.■•■•■.■ ■ ■■■■■■.Atrraj, ;■■=.

(Received May 11, 9.35 p.m.) ~ ;. . , EiiSME^ May 11. . :,'.'.!lllbiß;«ari!h.q«ake was undulatory and vertical and was a& its severest be•ifweem Catania anol ?Mangano, northtmrds of Acireal©. "Although Linera, wihioh was in the cerifer© of tihe disturb- . amce, was completely destroyed, th© Telative fewness of fits victims was due "to the majority of- the inhabitants bedng in ih© fields. • (Jreat damage is reportied ; from Sianta Venbrina, Bon Giardiino, Pisano, "Passapomo., Trecastagni, and Zafferana. Many •sufferers were conT©ved to the liosprials at Acii*©ale. Tfee zo«« most affected was thickly populated.. The land is most fertile, • -fibe vines gi-owingv>spontaneously. , Dozens of extricated bodies- were seen at^ intervals along the roads. Some were unreesogniisable and badly crushed. Many "mangled victim® were groaning piteously, auld those buried alive invoked aafi until their voices r.gjrew' fainter aM Jl)heii ceased. f