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Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12483, 9 March 1909, Page 4

. The electrification of the Victoria to London Bridge route of the London, Brighton and South Coast railway Is no w " comnleted. A story related by survivors from Reggio shows that even an 7* earthquake can produce its. romance. A young student for the" priesthood, aged twenty-two, having himself escaped, set to work to find. his sister, who was beneath the ruins of a young ladies' ; college. After three days, and quite by charicej he found her alive and well in a cellar full of dead and living people, .hut whejn they had embraced, th&girl, told her brother that somewhere among the wreckage of the college lay her great friend, who she believed was still" alive, and they determined to try and save her;: Jn almost complete darkness and in the. momentary fear of being crushed, the two .partially demolished a crumbling wall, and the girl cried "Maria, Maria !" 'To their great noy there came a voice, which guided them to a fallen beam, beneath which they found the girl for whom they were looking. She was not badly hurt, and when the weight was lifted oif 'her the three made their way together to a. safer portion of the town. "The yoiuig man, however, had ** fallen ih love with the rescued girl, who was strikingly beautiful, and gratitude for herr life hadperhaps inspired similar sentiments in her. At any rate, they shortly afterwards met a priest whom the student knew, and to whom he ? announced his renunciation of his career as a seminarist in order that he might marry her. Then and there the pi*ies*6 gave them his blessing, and united them.