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Show lWM'M KILLED . f i . jniiLi'QuiE Floods and FlrTAhTto tfieriorrori' Catastrophe '" Following on carthquako through llio fccutral portion of Italy last iyeduesday, which is credited with, having caused 30,000 deaths and In-" .Jury to 100,000 persons, Pescina wns 'reported Tuesday, to havo boen fto lally destroyed by, onothor shock. ;Tho loss of llfo hero Is unknown " In tho giant, quake in some in-'stances, in-'stances, wholo families wero wiped out. In other Instances wives won feft childless and widows. To add to tho horrors of tho occasion, mountain moun-tain streams, directed from their courses by tho tremors, flooded al-icady al-icady stilcken sections. Scores of persons sacrificed their lives in tho Hoods that followed. Flames, bursting from tho debris, lu somo instances threatened entiro cities. It Was with tbo greatest dim culty that thoy wero generally extinguished. ex-tinguished. It Is estimated that 20 cities and towns woro wiped out. Sovoral hundred persons wero rescues res-cues from tho ruins, somo of them having been In tho wreckage for six days. King Emanuel and Popo Benedict rendered invaluable aid to rescuo work. |