Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Italy's Great Horror of Earthquake and Tidal Wave: Terrible Devastation and Heart-Rending Scenes; Immense Loss of Life and Hundred Millions of Property Destroyed; The Most Appalling Disaster of Modern Times
That is the stupendous story of the great earthquakes and tidal waves that devastated Southern Italy and Sicily in the closing days of 1908.
It is the terrible climax of a series of convulsions of nature that began six years before, when Mont Pelee with one foul breath, blotted out lives on Martinique.
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