Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-11-21
Terrific Tornado In Sicily.
The Town Of PalazzOlO Swept away.
1000 Families Utterly HON eless.
Great Loss of Life and Property.

NEW YORK, Nov. 20. The London
Times of the SCh, has the following account
of hurricane in Sicily, which destroyed
the town of PalazZolo:
There has been no instance of such ca
lsmity within the
Memory OF Living Man.
No earthquake eyer caused so much des-
truction. There are houses ruined, houses
fallen to the very ground, walls cleft from
end to end, walls hanging outWards as if to
rest on adjoining houses. There are roofs
wholly swept away, sunken vaults, balco-
ny's torn from their places, windows and
shutters either entirely carried off or hang
ing loose from the walls, lamp posts forced
from their sockets, uprooted trees. Along
the northeast side of the town
Not a single House Remains,
in which the whole roof and windows do
not require thorough repairs. The streets
are mass of fragments and rubbish. The
incidents of the disaster are 80 strange as to
be almost incredible. There was a store
with twenty live hectolitres of wheat of
which
Not a Trace
is anywhere to be seen. The books of the
Excise and of the Sand Registry Offices
have vanished, and only their torn leaves
have been found here and there at great
distances. In one house all the
copper kitchen utensils were blown
through the roof. In another,
benches and heavy chests few through
the window. The iron bars Of one bal
cony are to be seen curled up one way,
those of another twisted up another way.
There is the pillar of palace which has
been moved forward one foot without
breaking, and stands isolated, all in one
piece. There is the wall Of another palace
which has fallen back more tnan three feet
without a crack. There is beam Of one
house which has thrust itself into another
house. There is half bedstead, the other
half of which lies
No One Knows Where.
All the tiles of one building are huddIed to-
getber in one spot on the root, crushed and
broken up as small as if they had been
pounded. The rafters of another builalng
are all bare. The tiles have flown no one
can see where. In sable on the bare
ground men are
Laying the Bodies
one by one as they are being dug out.
Most of them are in their night dresses,
having been crushed as they were quietly
sleeping. Their features and forms are so
disfgured that one cannot look at them
without shuddering. Their nostrils, ears
and mouths are stopped up with earth.
The white dust has everywhere pierced
through the skin. Here is the body of a
man holding close to his heart child, prob
ably his own. The skulls of both are shat
tered. There are two young men
Ia Each Others Arms,
probably brothers. The chests and backs
of both are crushed. Near them is snoth-
er youth covered with blood. He was clerk
i'll a government office. He has his eye
glass still stuck in his right eye. lie was
probably reading or writing when ne was
struck. There are some mangled past recog-
milton; others that seem unhurt and look
AS IL They Were Sleeping.
Without exaggeratiOn, one-third OF the
town. dismantled and more than a thous.
and families literally without home
About thousand more have only one little
corner of what was once their house 10
shelter them, The dead are thirty two, seri-
Ously hurt about half score.