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Show ITALY VISITED BY TERRIBLE WINDS HURRICANE, EARTHQUAKE, AND TIDAL WAVE REPORTED TO HAVE DONE DAMAGE Many Villages In Southern Italy Are In Ru'ns and Many People Are Missing; Land Flooded; Naples Na-ples Suffers From Wind Naples. An untold number of lives were lost and many villages in southern south-ern Italy were destroyed by the gigantic gi-gantic storm which swept in from the Tyrrhenian sea. The storm's force began below Na-j Na-j pies, extended with fury against the province of Calabria the toe of the Kalian boot and even crashed against the northern shores of Sicily, where the city of Messina was destroyed de-stroyed by the gigantic earthquake of December 28, 1908. This storm was a portion of the tremendous tre-mendous atmospheric disturbance which during twenty-four hours had killed scores in a Portugal cloudburst and wrecked many fishing smacks off the coast of Brittany. Fragamentary reports received in this city reveal that the number of dead may not be known for days as countless fishing vessels had gone to sea before the storm broke. Some may have outridden the waves' fury. There was no flood here at Naples, but the force of the storm tied up all shipping, no vessels daring either to enter or depart from the harbor during dur-ing the night. To the southward a gigantic tidal wave, followed by a hurricane, beat against the shores of Calabria, wrecking wreck-ing numerous small crafts caught inshore in-shore and destroying tiny fishing villages. vil-lages. The hurricane even extended as far inland as the city of Monte-leone Monte-leone far back from the Gulf of San Eufemia where roofs were wrenched from half a hundred houses while the populace of 12000 persons sought safety in the neighboring hills. The little city of Bagnara, on Cal-abmia's Cal-abmia's coast as the head of the Strait of Messina, was virtually wiped out by the tidal wave and thousands thou-sands of acres of vintage land were flooded. It is not known how many of the 7600 population survived, but it is believed most of them found safety in time. Bagnara is especially noted among British and English artists, ar-tists, who have painted thousands of. views of Sicily from the hills. Messina, the Sicilian city of 150,000 totally wrecked by the earthquake of 1908, again experienced a series of tremors, followed by a stifling whirlwind. whirl-wind. Great damage to property was done by the wind's force. It is believed be-lieved little loss to life resulted there. The tidal wave swept with great power into the Strait of Messina, but practically all fishing vessels in it were able to reach harbor before the blow fell. Reports received in Naples indicated indicat-ed that the greatest financial loss would not result from property destroyed, de-stroyed, but from hundreds of thousands thou-sands of acres which were flooded. The province of Calabria especially depends upon its exports of wheat, oil and wine, and it is believed the tidal wave caused damage to the vintage vin-tage regions which cannot be placed in producing shape for months. |