Show FOUR SOUR HUNDRED KILLED KILLED- BY CYCLONE IN Ili SICILY Flood Follows Wind and Island Is Swept by Destruction De Destruction truc- truc tion for Distance of Miles liles SYlL SYRACUSE CUSS Sicily Sept 27 The i.-The The island of Sicily has huts been devastated de by b- bya a a. terrible storm in In which awful loss of I life and enormous damage to property occurred The storm was followed by a n. I I cyclone For twenty four hours before the cyclone cy cyclone cy cy- clone burst buist over O the island a n violent storm raged on the eastern coa coast t of or Sicily Idly The path of the cyclone was It miles Jon long and everything e In the line of the storm was destroyed The sea ca swept inland for rOI several kilometres doing enormous damage while there were violent submarine agitations between between between be be- tween stell Sicily and the tho mainland Along the railroad from Catania to the force of the cyclone was such fluch that rails were torn up and hurled to a great distance dh It I la is reported from Modica thirty thirty- two miles southwest of or Syracuse CUSO that thata a hundred bodies have already alread been found but hut that the number of dead bodies swept away h by the torrent la is unknown The newspaper new paper I expresses eS the belief that some people peo- peo plo pie have been killed The torrent destroyed everything on I the ground floors In houses In the lower lower lower low low- er portions of or Modica Bridges and roads have disappeared the damage amounting to many million lire Alire A Alire AUre lire Ure Is Js worth about 20 O cents The survivors ors of oC the catastrophe have taken refuge e In the hills A relief committee committee com com- and search parties have ha been organized organized or or- at Modica The disaster Is 13 supposed to have been heen due to a marine waterspout The British h steamer teamer Caprera was wrecked at Catania after a a. terrible struggle with the waves es Two streams the St St. I Francis an and St St. Marie Marle which de descend end through the town ton rose rosc sudden suddenly and brought with them masses of or mud and h heavy a stones and Invaded the thc streets of or Modica They The carried everything in their course 1 Many Mun houses were v utterly wrecked and others were seriously I damaged Numerous Numerous Nu Nu- merou animals perished The number of or victims Is still unknown unknot n but eighty corpses have been deposited d In a single church hurch At twelve c persons were killed was wa destroyed Enormous was done at I Farla and |