DEAD TN ITALY'S QUAKE INCREASE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14986, 13 August 1919, Page 9

DEAD TN ITALY'S QUAKE INCREASE.

ROME, June 30. — Several thousand persons were injured m the towns and villages damaged by the earthquake on Sunday m the district, about Florence. The hpsp|taJs,. of /Florence are reported fillecf'-Tvi'ttv injured. 'One- hundred and 20 persons are estimated to have been killed m and neat. Vicchio, the. ceptre of the earth movement.on Sunday ihthe Florence district, according to the Tempo. The town' of Vicchio was reduCed'.to a heap of l'uitVH and' a number, of villajjes were destroyed. Last evening's earthquake, which was mainly Tel fc m the region of Florence, was perceptible as far away as Verace. It is reported that, there .were some victims aVßorgo -9pi j/Jjfenzo, 15 miles north-east of Floj*ence,' and at Dicomano, neav tie latter town..' The region /of He^ello (20 miles south-east -.of Florence! has been isolated. A number of houses ip various., places are^jeported destroyed.

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