TEMPEST IN ITALY.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume VI, Issue 316, 9 May 1879, Page 9

TEMPEST IN ITALY.

rr^ r , Home, February 26. Telegrams and letters from all parts of the Peninsula brine the most lamentable accounts of the damage caused by the te^nest accompanied by heavy thunder, hail and rain, which burst ove ™J2y Thewhni^ lll^^ ll^ 1111 continues - though with aSS£^&2£ mlcks of snS II 0 * *° - SOU^ ° £ Napkß iS StreWn With th « wiecxsot small craft, and a considerable number of larger vessels f m?^ 7^ 86 ?, 0118 in3al7 - At Venioc tbe sea ovlr a S Kn£S ? °>?' the at % il l tllcPiazza Sa » Ma ™ caching a hSt Ro mP s.S 'i lc 1 h ' came , d by a violent wind, fell furiously iv NaSes and XL gT? Sh ° CkS ° f eart^ake have been felt both at enth-elv ?W™^' I * ,?- CW Wat p °*iKpP<> has been almost Gon™ ?f t T * A C( £ Uer was aba idoned outside the port of the?oVk h^nf ? mt T^ Uglish - Etcamcrs - the Baron Hambroand vctd? 7? Fnfl^ m - Glr rao T in^ and caused mQch iQ J u^to other and two FrtiS f^ fflXTCBsel * )™° wrecked, four being Italian Sl«m™.itt & Da ™ eS not bem S Si yeu - A « Austrian ship, the ana was abandoned. Inland the effect of the storm whioh pnm . jneacod on the 22nd, though it did not reach Us he gh? 'tiU t£e 55" andSS'^T' /anna'/ anna ' Piacell2a - MilaS, Florence?^"; and other citaes have suffered. At Florence a number of fine old trees and a great many lamp-posts were blown down. All the windows ia Dase ot Michael Augelo s " David" was swept off. At Puo^iuolo near bicna, the Campanile of the church was b own dowS° while people were at Mass, killing two pr-csfc officiating at the altai •aid ocenn^'^f TST S and T° nDd i"S *wcnty-fonp. A%imilai cataltrophe