Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1889-10-05 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

FALL OF A PALACE.  I NARROW ESCAPE OF.THE INMATES. The disused cisterns of the Naples Palaces, when not filled up, are becoming a peril to the 'city. Whether full o: stagnant water or empty, they are equally uncared for, never re-cemented, and the cousequence is that their walla crumble, !or the water gradually saps the foundations of the Palaces. The frequent bursting of the defective tubes of the new waterworks is. another ! source of danger, and consequently scarcely a ! week passes without part of some building giving : way. Recently a wing of the fine Palace of St. Severe fell to the ground. It was built early in the sixteenth century by the Prince of San Severe, and restored in the mitalle of the next century. In 1550 it was the scene of a tragic murder. On the 18th of May of that year Carlo Gesualdo, the third Prince of Venosa, and eighth Count of Consa, murdered his wife in cue of its rooms. The many inhabitants of the various floors were saved from a horrible death by • strange accident. The palace door-keeper, taking a sudden fancy for eating a melon at midni Alt, went down into the celike to choose one, and noticed tbe sound of stones continually falling into the disused cistern. Alarmed at this, he cpened the door leading to the cistern, and saw that larAe stones, evidently belonging to the foundations of the palace, wore continually ' falling. At once realising the danger, he called the parnpieri and authorities, who ascertained that the water was more than six feet above the usual level, and that it had soaked all the sustaining arches of the left side of the palace. in which largo cracks and apertures had appeared. The inbaLitauts of the palace were roused from their Weep and forced to fly. There was no time to save anything, and halfdressed and frightened to death, the families, most of which belom!ed to the aristocracy. took refuge in neighbouring 'lemma. At 5.30 a.m. all were safe, and immediately alterwards the firemen were sent away for a little rest, having been at the work of inspection since midnight. Not ten minutes after they had left the palace s frightful crash was heard, and the neighbouring houses were shaken. 'The whole of the left wing of the palace, five stories high, had fallen into the abyss opened by the subterranean water, carry log with it the furniture and veinal:lac Nothing was saved, nothing had been axes', ated two days a:ter the catastrophe. Theprincipal sufferers are the Prince of Caramanica and the Deka of Irani. The former has all his furniture and the jewels of his wife under the ruins; the latter hi is lost 150.000 freers in money and securities. The Chapel of San Severe, which contains a famous ctatas of Christ, and others, and was joined to the palace by an arche ay, is so mach shaken that it will be perhaps nowasary to remove the works of art it contains.  noLLots AY'S Pmts.—The Great Need.— 'Me blood is the me, and uu te purity depeads our hoalth, if not our ex.steuoe. These pills thoroughly change this vital tlu d Iron' all Willson natzus. and by that power streogtheu aud invigorate the whole system, healthily stimulate sluggish °Hollis. repress over-excited actioin arid esiabhsh order of circulation and setretiou throughout s‘ery pert of the body. The balsamic natant of Holloway's Plll4 commends them to the favour af debilitated and nervous constitutious, WWI& &hay soon rasuontate. 'J hey dislodge all enstructlons, both In the bowels and alatavl4( ro, and IP" on th&S MSCOUIIt% much sought after for promoting reguliallY of wifion in young females and delicate pampa who are naturally woo-k. or who.trom soma ;Alloy, have boooulo so.