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Show COLDEST IN 10 YEARS First Time Since 1313 Italy Is Suffering Suffer-ing rjrom Cold Weather Heavy Fall of Rain Great Damage to Crops Rumbling Terrifies Peasants. Peas-ants. , Rome July 15 A terrific storm Is raging throughout Italy ana In many places tho country has been devasted and tho crops destroyed. It Is accompanied accom-panied by remarkable cold weathor for this time of the year, tho temperature temper-ature In Homo today falling below sixty degrees Fahrenheit. Such weather In tho middle of July has not been recorded In Italy sinco tho year 1313, when superstitious persons attributed at-tributed it to tho repetition of number num-ber 13. Ashes From Volcano Naples July 1G Extraordinary falls of rain and hall have flooded tho surrounding country for the last two dnys. Tor.ents of water mixed with mud taid ashes from Vesuvius have inundated this villages itlong the gulf of Turin. Owing to a strong cold wind from the north, accompanied by hurricanes, the temperature today fe'J almost to freezing point. Snow is reported re-ported to have fallen In the Alps. Damage to Crops Messina, July 15 A volient tern-est tern-est in the vicinity of the Strait of Messina accompanied by heavy rainfall, rain-fall, has caused enormous-damage In this region. Crops have been destroyed destroy-ed and floods have compelled the population pop-ulation to leave the huts in which they have been living since the great earthquake of a few years ago. Peasants Are Terrified Coszena, Italy, July 15 Hurricanes accompanied by slight carthquaHo shocks, and underground rumblings have terrified the peasants In this region for the last two days This is especially tho caso in tho Isolated villages from tho fright caused by tho earthquake) which occurred at the end of'June. Pope Remains Indoors Home, July 15 Tho Pope's physicians physi-cians today dissuaded him from taking tak-ing hU usual drive and wqlk In tho gardens of the Vatican owing to tho violence of the storm and the heavy rain. His Holiness continues perfectly per-fectly well. |