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Rh and more houses injured. Two people were killed, and two children suffocated in the confusion. Aliano.—Many injuries and eleven deaths.

Alianello.—Completely destroyed. Forty-two deaths.

Craco.—The buildings injured. One death.

Montemurro.—We have already said that this place is but a heap of stones. More than a thousand people have perished. We have the consolation of knowing that some were taken alive from the ruins eight days after the fatal night.

Marsico.—Entirely destroyed. It is computed, at present, that 400 have perished.

Castelsaraceno.—The houses have all fallen. The church and monastery are tottering. The deaths exceed 400. A lady and infant were saved from the ruins, a young girl of fourteen years, and several others.

Sarconi.—The number of deaths does not exceed thirty; but the buildings are levelled to the ground.

Maratea.—A great number of the buildings demolished.

Lauria, Castelluccio, &c.—Great damage to the public and private buildings.

Sacco, Licusati, &c.—The buildings more or less injured, but no deaths.

Matera &c.— More or less injury to the houses, but no deaths.

Salandra.—Forty houses demolished; the rest more or less injured and falling. One body has been disinterred. The Syndic reports that for about a month a gas was observed to issue from a ditch filled with running water, about two miles from the town. The gas was of sun heat. A few days ago at twenty paces distant, the like gas was observed to exhale from a similar ditch. It was only perceptible in the morning hours, and disappeared during the rest of the day. On the 22nd instant this exhalation entirely ceased. It is believed that a spring of thermal waters has its issue here.

Grassano.—About 100 houses fallen; all the other buildings are more or less injured. A young girl of fifteen years of age was killed, and a lady had her leg broken.

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