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Show V" TT VTT a TT "TT "V T "T "W HUNDREDS LOSE IMS IN ITALIAN TREMBLOR MANY PERISH IN COLLAPSE OF BUILDINGS Extent of Disaster Grows As New Reports Are Received , At Rome POSTOFFICE TOPPLES BURYING ENTIRE STAFF Family Lost in Ruins of Home, Cataclysm Causes Panic ROME. sept. 8. Several hundred hun-dred pi rsiris Inst their lives In the earthquake at Flrlzxano, and munv DlOtC were injured, jiccoril- iti to a dispatch to the Trlbuna from ifaaso. RME. Sept. S. Scores of lives are' believed to have been lost In the dls-l trie! north of Florence which was se- , v.-rely shaken by an earthquake yesterday yes-terday morning As reports from the stricken region come in over faltering! telegraph and telephone lines the extent of the disaster sems to be growing grow-ing and there Is a possibility the damage done may be much more serious seri-ous than was at first believed. SHOCK is si i km. 'Die territory violently disturbed seemed to be lozenge-shaped whli FlorenC at the southern apex and Hodena at the northern end. It extends ex-tends along the Etrurian coast and runs over the Apinlncs eastward for upwards of 100 miles. In this district there ai-.- many populous towns and po tidings have as yet been received from many of them. There is every indication indi-cation that the shock was a severe! one and reports from cities In the earthquake zone show that buildings rumbled beneath the strain of the! convulsion of the earth s i l PERISHES. At Flvlzzano. a town of 17.000 In-habitants In-habitants near Carrara, almost every building was damaged ,"nd many were destroyed Among the collapsed structures Is the postoffice. in the ruins Of which Is the entlro staff. Solelra. In the province of Mussa Marlttima, and Monti, nearby. were partly destroyed. Rlvcsano, Fornl and Montlgnoro are reported In ruins, while In Marina and Carrara many structures have collapsed At Varlagoj the church of St Paul was destroyed and at Castel Frunce dl Sotto the cell-i lng of a church was shattered FAMILY III Kill). Panic prevails at Eucca as a result) of the cataclysm, and from Cavlnana and Limestre come reports of lives j being lost. At Villa Franca. In Eunl- glana. an entire family was burled In the ruins of their home, and tho vll-I lage of Ylgetta was entirely destroyed Serious damage was done In the Frlg-nano Frlg-nano district, where houses collapsed, and at Frasslnero, where a number i of bouse fell Ple ep,-l.tg,i and sjiuit Andre were badly damaged, but thej number of victims has not I" oft as-I certalned. LONDON. Sept. 8. Messages from the region affected by luesday s earthquake earth-quake In Italy say the number of dead and Injured discovered is Increasing' hourly, according to an Exchange Telegraph Tel-egraph dispatch from Rome today. The Spe.la district was especially haul hit. The towns of CJuercia, Mo-' leSSO and TaraSCO were wiped ou:. Ai-purcntlv Ai-purcntlv not a single town escaped i image. Fv ei y w here, tho dispatches report i the population Is camping In the open. Iteiict parties are scouring 'he devastated devas-tated region. Slgnor Herttn', the un--t ocr-secrotary of public works, has gone to tho scene of the disaster |