The Earthquake In Southern Europe.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2037, 2 March 1887, Page 2

The Earthquake In Southern Europe.

AT.ARM AT NICE. TERRIBLE SITUATION OF THE PEOPLE, London. February 26.

The excitement and alarm created by the earthquake have had no equal of late years in Europe, but now that Mount Etna bai buret into activity anxiety and terror are on the increase rather than on the wane. The gene* ral feeling of insecurity haa reached fever heat, and in Nice a perfect panic is still raging. At least 15,000 people have left the city, and the exodus of affrighted people still continues. The greatest solicitude is felt as to the fate of villages in districts yet unexplored. Throughout the Riviera the railway lines ate completely blocked. In many places tbo rail* have been tom up, and in others have been buried beneath tons of earth and rocks. Throughout the afflicted country scenes occurred heartrending in the extreme. Bed ridden and sick people, even those on the point of death, were taken from their home* and placed in open spaces. Everywhere could he seen crowds of bewildered and scresminglyfrantio persons, At Savona a considerable number of lives were lost Everywhere in the vicinity of that town and Genoa wreck and ruin reigned supreme. Anything like an accurate estimate of the loss of life in this terrible calamity is impossible at present. Mount Etna is in eruption.

A tbonsand people were killed by the earthquake in Genoa. Savona was entirely laid in rains. Slight shocks are still felt in Italy.