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Show lIALy SORELY HURT ISLAND OF ISCHIA SWEPT BY FIERCE STORM WHICH CAUSES DEATH AND DESTRUCTION An Avalanche of Stone and Mud Rushes Down Mount Vesuvius, Sweeping all Before it, Burying Bury-ing Houses and People. Naples. The Island of Ischia, in the Mediterranean, southeast of the city of Naples, has been stormswept. First reports reaching here gave a very considerable loss of life from a tidal wave, but the latest reports indicate that the victims are few. Communication with the island is difficult, but brief dispatches from Casamicciola state that while it is believed be-lieved some persons were killed by the collapse of houses, the body of only one woman has been recovered. Naples suffered from a furious storm of wind and rain Sunday night and all day Monday, the damage amounting amount-ing to millions. Every section of the city bears the marks of the gale. The suburbs were even more seriously effected, several persons being killed. The surrounding sur-rounding country has been devasted, great quantities of grapes, vines, trees, walls and parts of houses being scattered about in a'l directions. An avalanche of stones and mud rushed down Mount Vesuvius above the lava line of the eruption of 1906. It swept all before It as far as the town of Portici. It wrecked the tram line and engulfed nearly a score ol victims. |