TERRIBLE SCENES.
PRISONERS SEIZED WITH PANIC. PEOPLE RUSH IN TERROR TO T'BEI STREETS. ROME, December 29. Tho terrified inhabitants, aroused suddenly out of sleep, poured halfclothed into the streets, where rain was falling. Panic seized the prisoners in a number of gaols, and in their blind terror to escape they smashed doom and windows. Police had to be summoned before carder could be restored. Terrible scenes were witnessed at Catania, a town on tho oast coast of Sicily, beautifully situated, at the foot of Mount Etna, where the hospital patients wore seized with panic also. Three persons were killed and’ sixty injured at Stefanaooni, in Calabria, and two killed at San Gregorio. Many were injured in other Calabrian hamlets.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 6704, 30 December 1908, Page 5
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119TERRIBLE SCENES. New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 6704, 30 December 1908, Page 5
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