Show ITALY VI VISITED BY II TERRIBLE WINDS I I HURRICANE EARTHQUAKE AND TIDAL WAVE REPORTED TO HAVE DONE DAMAGE ArcIn Are Arc Many Villages In Southern Italy and d Many People Are In p Ruins a Missing Land Flooded NapLes Naples Naples Na Na- ples Suffers From Wind r Naples An An untold number of lives were lost and many villages in southern souther south south- er ern n Italy w were ro destroyed b by the gigantic gi gigantic gl gi- gantic storm which swept in from the sea The storms storm's force began below Naples Naples Na Na- ples pIes extended with fury against the province of Calabria the Calabria-the the toe of the Italian HaUan boot boot and and even crashed against the northern shores of Sicily where tho the city of Messina was destroyed destroyed de de- de by b- the gigantic earthquake of December 28 S 1908 This storm was as a portion of the tremendous tremendous tremendous tre tre- tre- tre atmospheric disturbance which during twenty-four twenty hours had killed scores in a Portugal cloudburst an and wrecked many fishing smacks off oU tho tiro coast of Brittany I reports received In Inthis inthis inthis this city reveal that the number of dead may not be known for days as countless fishing vessels had gone tosea to tosea tosea sea before the storm broke Some may have bave 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 dur dur- during durIng during ing the night To the southward a gigantic tidal wave followed b by a hurricane beat bea beata t a against the shores of Calabria wrecking wreck wrecking ing numerous small crafts caught Inshore Inshore inshore in In- shore and destroying tiny fishing vII vil lages ages The hurricane even eyen extended d as far inland as the city of Monteleone Monte- Monte leone leone far far back from the tho Gulf GuU of Sa San n where Eufemia-where where roofs roots were wrenched from half a hundred houses while the populace of oC persons sought sough t safety In the neighboring hills The little city of Bagnara on Cal Cal- coast as the head of th the e Strait of Messina was virtually wiped out by the tidal wave and thousands thousands thou thou- thousands sands of acres of oC vintage land were flooded It is not known how man manof many Y of the population survived bu buit but t it is believed most of oC them found foun d safety in time Bagnara Bagnaia is especially noted among British and English artists artists artists ar ar- who have painted thousands o of at f views of Sicily from the hills Messina the Sicilian city of 0 totally wrecked by the earthquake o of f 1908 again experienced a series o of oC f tremors followed by a stifling whirl whirl- wind Great d damage mage to property was wa s done by the winds wind's force It is believed believed be be- little loss to life resulted there The tidal wave swept with great power into the Strait of Messina bu but t practically all fishing vessels in i it t were able to reach harbor be before Core tit the e blow fell Reports received In Naples indicated ed that the greatest financial loss would not result from property destroyed de de- but from hundreds of oC thousands thousands thou sands of acres which were flooded The province of Calabria especially depends upon its exports of ot wheat oil and wine and it is believed th the tidal wave caused damage to tho vintage vintage vin vin- tage regions which cannot be placed place d in producing shape for months I |