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Show EAST CALABRIAN COAST DESERTED Reggio, Jan. 4. A detachment of troops which went to the villages on the east of the coast of Calabria found nothing but ruins and the bodies of persons killed In the earthquake. The sun-Ivors had fled. There Is every reason to hellevo that dreadful havoc was wrought in the mountain villages that have not j-et been explored. ex-plored. A convoy with 1,000 rations of bread, which was going through Bag-narla. Bag-narla. was rifled enroute by famished persons here. A number of small boats, all of them over loaded, put out Into the channel to request food of Incoming steamers, which the offUrs of the vessels were compelled to refuse them. Several of the small crafts capsized and a number of persons were drowned. |