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Show A BALLOON AT MESSINA. More earthquakes have rocked tho ruins of Messina and Rcggio and more earth disturbances aro predicted. Thcro is a tendency on tho part of the refugees, notwithstanding these warnings warn-ings of the earth, to go back to tho scenes of what was. to them home. ML Etna threatens tho greater part of eastern Sicily, but the survivors Ignore Ig-nore all the signs, of impending danger dan-ger and ask to be allowed to cling to the wreckage. Messina was a beautiful city prior to its destruction. Thero were palaces pal-aces on tho water front and back of the city were hills carpeted in verdure. ver-dure. The memories of tho place are impelling tho Sicilian to. go back. There U only one plan by which to make life safe in the earthquake zone of that Island or in Calabria and that is to procure an aeroplane or dirigible dirig-ible balloon and sleep in tho machine, eo that when the rumblings and the lockings of Vulcan are heard and felt, and houses arc tumbling to tho ground the airship can carry Its precious load to some distant shore. Had one of the Wrights been in Messina the morning of tho destruction, destruc-tion, he could have sailed above the crumbling city and have witnessed one of tho most awc-lnspliing sights ever presented to tho eyes of man. The destruction of Messina, as viewed from a point of vantage such as a dirigible balloon might afford, would have been a scene beyond description, |