Earthquakes in Southern Europe.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2052, 6 April 1887, Page 2

Earthquakes in Southern Europe.

> TERRIBLE SCENES AND OBEAT LOSS OF LIFE. Nice, in Italy, and Gaunt*, In Franes, u well as severs! other point* in both eoaotrlee. were visited by severe earthquakes on 23rd February, lu the former city 60 taouiei were left in a condition to fall at any moment, and many others are much damaged. 20.000 , persons left the place, and a ebasm opened , in the ground near the city, from which a stream of hot muddy water bubbled up. The effects of the earthquake at Mentone wsie i more terrible. The building inspectors con* d turned twothirds of the picturesque old town as unsafe. There was a terrible state of affairs at a plait called Hiano Marino. The bodies of 24 per ions viere taken from tbs | ruins mi that dsy and (id irane are reported under tbe fallen buildings A child of 13 and her father were taken flora the debris, : I when the IMPT expired oi, the spot. A woman aud child were Ueii out alive aftci being I entombed three days. Tbe lurvivor; say that the msjoritv of victims were killed I* the second shock, many people baring reentered iheir bouses to procure clothing. , Tue bodice, wrapped in shrouds, lay in the middle ol the sheets, and groans wers heard in the ruins, especially in the Via Gsrribaldi. At a house near the city a ball was in pro* gtess, and when the shocks esme tbe building was entirely wrecked, a terrible loss of lift resulting therefrom. The dancers lay dead in heaps upou the ground. Almost thesntars population is encamped on the seashore, A party ol soldiers, in exploring the ruins in this place, fouud Judge Boss! lying beneath a mass of debris, still alive, bat while the mao were trying to extricate him a beam fail, killing tbe captive aud wounding the soldiers. At Genoa the populace slept out ol doors oa the 24th, and many went aboard ships in the harbor, and 3000 fled tbs city by rail. It was reported at Boms on the 21th that Brussana, a village of 800 inhabitants, bad been levelled, and the people buried under the rains without the hope of reeeae. Villages built on tbe Tsrrseea on tbs sids oI hills are almost all destroyed. Tbs csodu from the Riviera is enormous, end Marseilles is invaded by an army of fugitives utterly panto stricken and demoralised. Tbensanda ol people are without homes and needing assistance. In Oneglia, although the well* of the houses, being well built, withstood the shocks, all tbe interiors collapsed, in souse* queues of wbiob 9000 persons are compelled to live in shed* and tents, suffering greatly through exposure to wind and rain. Of 800 bodies buried at Diano Marino only 15 watt identified. Thousands of persons tfasre are still camping ont. Tbe air is becoming horribly offensive, owing to the steneh arising from the corpses that ate yd iu the ruins. Tbe structures in which the injured at Ba> gardo were sheltered were blown down before the helpless people could be removed to a place of safety. They were all covered with snow and hall dead from cold. Certain portions of the Mediterranean coast have sunk considerably, while others have been raised. Many new springs have burst forth among the mountains, end others have dried up.' About 6000 persons have gone away sines the day before yesterday. Most of the churches have been almost entirely destroyed, those et Mentone having suffered very severely. The troops were celled ont to keep order among tbe crowds beseiging the railways throughout tbe city. The troops have been compelled to keep back st tbe point ol the bayonet orowdi of despairing men and women who were im* peding the work of excavation in their effort* te find the missing. The bodies of tbe vie* tims of the disaster are disfigured, and the sufferings ol the survivors ars great, the supply of provisions, drugs, snd ambulance apparatus being painfully inadequate. The work of the rescuers is attended with considerable danger, lu so ms cases they her* been obliged to flee trom tottering walls, although they could hear the groaua of vie* time buried by the debris. UslNclothsd people are wandering ou the tea sliora exposed to inclement weather. Clothing sud supplies of all Kinds are beginning t>> amre iu ample quantities from Tents ar« txuug erected, and volunteers foi search pnties plentiful. Nolxiuy i nt-rs a house who is able to obtain shelter e suwhete.