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216 the interred, the number of whom was unknown. The population who had passed the fatal night in the open air are seeking shelter in the sheds which have been hastily erected. Most distressing are the reports from other communes of the province. Tito, Marsiconnuovo, Laurenzana, and Brienza are almost destroyed. Two-thirds of the inhabitants of Vignola have perished, and the rest are badly hurt. Melfi, which suffered so much before, has no deaths to lament, nor Avigliano. The injuries in Viggiano, Calvello, Anzi, and Abriola are great, and the terror and despair of the inhabitants still greater.

A telegraphic despatch from the Calabrias informs us that the earthquake was almost imperceptible in Cantanzaro and but little felt in Reggio.

Dark, beyond all description, are the particulars of the disasters which have occurred in the two provinces of Principato Citeriore and Basilicata, where the destructive violence of the earthquake of the night of the 16th and 17th of this month appears to have been concentrated. With the deepest grief we continue to relate them in the same order and manner in which they reached us, careless of everything but the manifestation of the simple truth. First of all, we grieve to state that up to the 18th instant, nineteen dead bodies had been disinterred at Potenza, and it is feared that many more are beneath the ruins. Three hundred have been exhumed in Polla. II Caporale di Gendarmeria Montefusco, was taken out alive. In Saponara the Royal Judge—thanks to the prompt assistance of his colleague, of Moliterno—was disinterred alive, but the unhappy man is left to mourn his wife and two sons, buried under the same ruins from which he had been extricated, bruised, and lamed. Lagonegro experienced three shocks in the space of seven hours. None of the inhabitants perished. but the greater portion of the buildings, both public and private, were more or less injured, and three of them destroyed, among which are the church of P. P. Cappuceini and the electric station. The shocks continued until yesterday, but infrequent and slight, and the entire population was assembled under the sheds which had been hastily erected in the