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Show morning, but this was tho first, that as distinctly perceptible. After tho shock, the flro in tho municipal build-Ins build-Ins flamed' up and was burnlog nercely when this dispatch was sent. Earthquake experts who are hero to study tho phenomenon generally ajrree that the earthquake was tho result of a fault in the geological formation for-mation undor - Messina which constituted consti-tuted a line of contact in tho volcanic sctlon between Mount Aetna and Monnt Vesuvius, and that a slip occurred oc-curred similar to the one which douched do-uched Sicily from the mainland; that a subsidence occurred at some points and that thore was a rising of tho earth's surface at others is proved by soundings which show the channel of the harbor deeper at Borne placoj and shallower at others. The British battleship Exmouth, at a distance of half n mile south of Regglo, found fifty-eight fathoms of water where formerly for-merly there were two hundred and fcrty-thrco. i MORE EARTHQUAKES ARE INEVITABLE Frank Perritt of Brooklyn, assistant to Prof. Mateuccl, director of the national na-tional observatory on Mount Vesuvius, speaking of hte disaster here and in Calabria, says that other earthquakes are Inevitable, as there are flaws in the earth's crust where the slip occurred. oc-curred. He predicts other Bhocks for Monday, and declares that something possibly very serious may happen Jan- i)ary 7 and 8, when the relative poai-lioHsupf poai-lioHsupf the sun and mooa will pro-duco pro-duco the greatest strain. Saturday morning fire broke out again in tho municipal building. The city records were consumed. The fire communicated to the building of the Unnk of Italy, where 75,000.000 lire 15,000,000) in paper money wa stored. The energetic efforts of the f.remen and eallors saved tho money, which was removed to a warBhlp. I , Saturday night at 9:45 o'clock thero 1 was a fresh shock of earthquake and I a panic ensued ashore and on board nhip. Many of tho tottering wallu , -fell, but no fatalities were recorded. ; There have been a score of tremora since tho disaster of last Monday i |