Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1894 — DIE UNDER A CHURCH. [ARTICLE]

DIE UNDER A CHURCH.

Forty-seven Meet Death While Seeking Safety from an Earthquake. The earthquakes in Sicily and Southern Italy caused considerable damage to the telegraph lines and details of the phenomena are coining to hand slowly. It is known, however, that the Province of Reggio di Calabria suffered the severest damage by the seismic disturbances. Little damage was done in Reggio, the capital of the province, but there was great loss of life and much damage to property elsewhere in the province. Seventeen communes were involved in the disturbance. the centers of which were in the vicinity of Palmi, twenty-one miles northwest of Reggio and Bagnara, on the Gulf of Gioja, almost directly opposite Punta del Faro. Sicily. The village of San Procopio, near Palmi, was almost entirely destroyed. Here sixty persons were killed. Forty-seven of these met their death in a church to which they had fled for refuge. At Bagnara seven persons were killed. Eight lost their lives at Mamerlino and San Eufemia, being crushed to death, while many others were injured. The inhabitants of these places are obliged to camp in the open air. Prime Minister Crispi has sent a large sum of money for the relief of the sufferers and has placed two vessels at the disposal of the prefect of Bagnara. In the Calabrian towns of Triparni and Mileto many houses were destroyed and a number of persons injured. Much damage was also done in the adjacent province of Cantanzaro. King Humbert has donated a large sum of money for the relief of the earthquake sufferers. Sixty, lives were lost by the falling of the church at San Procopio.