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Show ITALY SORELY HURT , ISLAND OF IBCHIA SWEPT BY I FIERCE STORM WHICH CAUSES E DEATH AND DESTRUCTION ? r- An Avalanche of Btont and Mud 1 ' Rushes Down Mount Vesuvius, T ; '. Sweeping sll Before It, Bury- ..' Ing Houses snd Ptople. . ' , '-.! Naples -The Island of Iselilu. In tho I ' ', Mediterranean, southeast of the city j f 1, of Naples, has been tiorinswcpt. First ' ' J reports reaching here gave a very . ; considerable loss of life Irom a tidal ', wine, hui the latest reports Indicate Y '. thai the victims lire few. j . ' Cotinuiiiili alloti with the Island I f,'- . 1 j difficult, but brief illsiaitches from o ' , Casanil, clolu slate that while II is bo- I llovcd s persons were kl led by tho t v j collapse of houses, the body of only ! ' one woman line been recovered. . x Naples suffered from a furious stnrro , - K of wind and ruin Sunday night and '.' all day Monday, Hie damage amount ,. - , Ing to millions. ': . Kvery section of the city bear ' Hie marks .if the gale. The subirb were even more seriously effected. , eye ral persons being killed. The surrounding sur-rounding country has been rievasted, great quantities of grapes, vines, trees, walls and parte of housea being scattered about In a I directions. An nvslimche of stones and mud rushed down Mount Vesuvius above) the lava line of the eruption of IV11S. It swept all before It as far aa the town of Portlcl. It wrecked the tram line nnd engulfed nearly a score ot vltllms. |
