| Show ITALY no if VISITED is BY I TERR TERRIBLE BLE WINOS WINDS EARTHQUAKE HURRICANE EARTHQUAKE AND TIDAL WAVE REPORTED TO HAVE DONE DAMAGE Many Villages In Southern Italy Are Aro In Ruins and Many People Are Missing Mining Land Flooded Naples Na Na- plea pies Suffers From Wind Naples An An untold number of lives were lost and many villages In southern south south- ern Italy were destroyed by the gigantic gigantic gi gl gantic storm which swept in from the sea The storms storm's force began below Naples Na Na- pies ples extended with fury against the province of Calabria the Calabria-the the toe of ot the Italian boot boot and and even crashed against the northern shores ot or SIcily where the city of ot Messina was as destroyed destroyed de de- by the gl gigantic earthquake of ot December 28 1908 This storm was Vias a portion of ot the tremendous tre tre- tremendous atmospheric disturbance which during twenty twenty four four hours had killed scores In a Portugal cloudburst and wrecked many fishing smacks off the coast of Brittany reports received in inthis this city reveal that the number of dead may not be known for days as countless fishing vessels had gone to tosea tosea tosea sea before the storm broke Some may ay have the waves' waves fury There was no flood here at Naples but the force of the storm tied up all shipping no vessels daring either to enter or depart from the harbor or during dur duro ing tag the tho night To the southward a gigantic tidal wave followed by a n hurricane beat against the shores of Calabria wreckIng wreckIng wreck wreck- Ing numerous small crafts caught Inshore Inshore inshore in In- shore and destroying tiny fishing VII vil lages The hurricane even extended as far inland as the city of Monte Monte- leone tar far back from the Gulf of Sa San n where Eufemia where roofs were wrenched d from halt half a hundred houses while whit e the populace of persons sought sough t safety In the neighboring hills The little city of Bagnara on Cal coast as the head of th the e Strait of Messina was virtually y wiped out by the tidal wave and thousands thousands thou sands of acres of ot vintage land were e flooded It Is not known how many ey y of the population survived but t it is believed most of ot them found foun d safety in time Bagnara Is especially y noted among British and English artists artists ar who have painted thousands o ot of t views of ot Sicily from the hills Messina the Sicilian city of 0 totally wreck wrecked d by the earthquake o of f 1 n ft t o A n u. u tremors followed by a stifling whirl whirl- wind Great damage to property was wa s done by the winds wind's force torce It Is believed believed be little loss to life resulted there The tidal wave swept with gr great grea at t power Into the Strait of Messina but bu t practically all fishing vessels In f it t were able to reach harbor before th the blow fell tell Reports received in Naples indicated indica t ed that the greatest financial loss los B would not result from property destroyed de destroyed but from hundreds of ot thousands thousands thou sands of acres which were flooded I The province of Calabria especially y depends upon its exports of wheat oil and wine and It Is s believed th the e tidal wave caused damage to the vintage vin vi n tage regions which cannot be placed place d in producing shape for months |
