Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-11-21
HURRICANE.
Horrible Details or the Terrible De-
struciiOn By the Hurricane which
Recently Swept Over Sicily.

NEW YORK, November 20.-The Lon
: don Times of the eighth has the following
account Of the hurricane IN Sicily,
which destroyed the town Of Palazzalo.
l There has been no instance Of such
calamity within the memory Of living
man. Noearthquake ever caused such
destruction. There are houses ruined,
houses fallen to the very ground, walls
cleft from end to end, walls hang out
ward as Il to rest on the adjoining
houses. There are roofs wholly swept
away, sunken vaults, balconies torn
from their places, windows and shutters
either entirely carried of or hanging
loose from the walls, lampposts forced
from their sockets, and trees up
rooted, is all that one sees along the north
east side Of the town. Not single house
remains in which the whole roof and
windows do not require thorough repair.
The streets are 3 mass Of fragments and
rubbish. The incidents Of the disaster
are so strange as to be almost incredible.
There was & store with twenty-five hec-
t0rlites of wheat, Of which not trace
was TO be seen. The books Of the Ex-
else and Of the Land Registry offices
have vanished, and only a few 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 thrOu he win
dows; the iron bar on the lsilony are
to be seen curled up one way, those
Of another twisted mp another
way. There Is a pillar of Apol-
10, which has been moved forward
one foot without breaking, and stands
all in one piece. There is the wall Of an
other palace, which has fallen back
three feet without cracking. Here is
the beam Of one house which has thrust
itself into another house. There is one
half Of 8 bedstead; the other half lies
no one knows where. All the tiles OF
one building are huddled together in one
spot. One roof is crushed and broken
up as small as If il had been pounded.
The rafters Of another building were
blown away. Men are lying crushed in
the ruins and are being dug out. Most
Of them are in their night dresses,
they having been crushed as they
were quietly sleeping. Their features
and forms were so disigured that one
cannot look at them without shuddering.
Their nostrils, ears and mouths are
stOpped up with earth, and the white
ul-A his ENEA HAAEAN NAI4NI1 AAAANAes-A
their skin. Here is the body Of q man,
holding close to his heart a child; the
skulls Of both are shattered. There are
two young men in each others arms,
probably brothers; the chests and backs
Of both are crushed. Near them is an
other youth covered with blood; he was
clerk in a government Office. BE has
his eye-glass still stuck in his right eye,
apd was r,rnbabIv reading or writing
when he was struck.
There are some mashed past recog- |
milton, while Others seem unnurt, and
look as il they were sleeping. Without
exaggeratiOn at least One-third Of the
town is dismantled, and more than one
thousand families are literally without
a home; about one thousand more have
only a little corner Of what was once
their houses to shelter them. There are |
thirty-twO dead and q large number
wounded.