SCENE IN ITALY.
I The Florence correspondent of the "Berliner Tageblatt" telegraphs details of a distressing accident which x-curred at tho house'"of a, widow at !?astiglione, near Florence. The lady ras dying, and a priest, was adrainisering the last sacrament to her in tho mjsenc.o of about .eighty relatives and riends. As is the custom of the dis-. ricfc, tho bedroom, which Tvas on tho Irst floor of the house, was packed to yorflbwipjj. White -thes© < assembled rare prayittg the floor gave way, and.
all tho people, including tho dying woman, were precipitated into the room bolow. When the debris had boon removed the lady was found to be doad, and the priest and a scoro of pooplo seriously injured.
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Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13775, 16 July 1913, Page 8
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SCENE IN ITALY.
Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13775, 16 July 1913, Page 8
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