Show TIDAL WAVE THIRTY FEET HIGH hundreds of men women and ch dren caught by rush ng waters palermo railroad communication with messina lias been restored A trainload of refugees came in here tuesday morning but they are al saddened with terror and no one i capable of giving a connected account of the catastrophe all agree that messina has been destroyed and that the victims will be counted by the tens of thousands the Trian cria hotel with ninety guests was demolished the city 1 all the bourse the telegraph offices and the barraci s also were destroyed A tidal wave thirty feet high swept ip three streets of the city in th height of the contusion following th hock hundreds of half dressed men women and children who had fled their houses to the streets were caught in the onrush of waters and drowned or injured the refugees deelake that the en tire antry around messina has been devastated and that beveral villages have disappeared telegraphic re lorts have been received from all larts of the island of sicily they aay the inhabitants everywhere are terror stricken aad praying in the streets and churches reggio is described aa nothing but vast sepulchre |