, 1881-04-16

GQ0 re SulC OF TWO SnOCkc3-tuO AAou ~ doA~
past l in the afternoon of the Ath inst,
lasting seven seconds the second after IN
interval of an hour. and-ahaf. The whole
upper part of the town has bee destroyed.
The handsome Albergo della Grando SEN
tinella is a mass of ruins. Cletts and u.s.
sures opened in the streets 30
in width. The Manu- Baths and the Monte
della Misericordia are seriously damaged,
but the Albergo della Piccola Sentinella,
which is lower down, has escaped sunlnJur-
ed. Many of the people have fled from
the town and encamped in the fields.
Immediately upon the news reaching
Naples, the Exploratore, despatch boat, was
sent off with a number of soldiers, police,
and doctors to render assistance, u with
a large supply of blankets and necessaries
of ali kinds and the Minister of the Inter-
ior telegraphed from Rome, placing at the
disposal of the Project a sum of money in
aid of the hundreds of poor creatures who
have lost their all. The steamboat COM
pany has organized a special sevice.
Many houses on the surrounding cd1tp0gnG
and in the village of Lacco Mameno have
also been thrown down
1t was at first supposed that this disas-
ter was connected with the partial erup-
ton of Vesuvius on the End inst,. but
Professor Palmieri has stated that the Seis-
l"1OSIdDUlC 1uSuI uLICuUS 1lUF IIS SINCA AO
Indications, he is inclined to think the
catastrophe is due to some local phenome-
non, possibly to a sudden sinking Of the
ground through subterranean corrosion
caused by the continual working OF the
mineral waters. Shortly before the first
shock of earthquake the mineral springs
were observed to be in a state OF ebullltlon.
Another shock of earthquake was felt at
Casamicciola last night.
March Z.
That which most impresses one
in reading the more detailed accounts
of the earthquake in CasamiccioI Ia is the
fearful suddenness of the catastrophe.
The PaMgola writes =
GA fearful noise was suddenly heard.
The people in the houses were instantly
buried in their ruins those who were out
in he streets, bewildered and d~iSmayed,
STOOD speechless at the terrible spectacle,
and then screams Of terror and shrieks OF
agony were heard on all Sides"
The first and infinitely more destructive
of the two shocks lasted less than u quar-
ter of a minute. In some houses whole
families were buried alive. Three thons-
and ont of four thousand inhabitants are
shelterless. One correspondent describes
the assure in the ground as a black line,
so metres in length, undulat1ng through
the white dust covering the streets, and
ending in an abyss which had engulfed
houses. men, women, and animals. The
lead extricated from the ruins already
number 100, and more still lie buried be-
meath them.
At Lacco AMEND 10 houses were thrown
down, five persons were killed, aud two
were wounded.
The Minister of the Interior has sent
SCOOP. in aid of the sufferers, the Minister
of Grace and Justice 3,000f., and the Nea-
politan Press 1,2COf. On the Chamber of
Deputies ~resuming it's sitting to-day d
subscription list on behalf of the sufferers
at Casamicciola was opened and lmmedl-
ately reached the amount of 1,640f. Sub
scription lists have been opened at Rome
and Naples, and earnest calls upon the
charity of the public are being made.
March 8.
Two more slight shocks of earthquake
have been felt at. Casamicciola, but with no
worse effect than the throwing down OF some
of the houses already ruinously damaged.
One hundred and ffty-two bodies have
been now dug out of the ruins. The panic
still continues unabated and has even
spread to the Neapolitan district. The
whole population of Tore del Greco spent
last night in the open dir IN consequence OF
a false alarm that symptoms OF an earth
| quake had been felt there. The appeals
made to public charity in aid of the suffer
ers are being responded to with the most
oman handed Iiherality. Private persons.