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Show Landslips Can e Terror. Terrible accounts have reached Rome of the great la$ 3s ip of Cornig-lio Cornig-lio in Val di Parma. For some time the hillside has slowly been slipping down on to Corniglio, and It is feared that before it stops the whole countryside country-side may be practically blotted out. Already many houses have been overthrown over-thrown and the main street of Corniglio Cor-niglio gapes with ever-widening crevasses. The most terrible thing about the catastrophe is the slowness of the movement. Cracks appear on the faces of the houses, and slowly " widen before the eyes of the terrified ipectators, while the crash of trees slowly torn up by the roots, and the grinding of rocks sound along the hillside. hill-side. Every day the peasants fear to see the graveyard of Corniglio torn open. Terror reigns throughout thf whole valley. |