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226 Grottola.—Some houses fallen; the rest injured badly. One death.

Sorrowful details arrive every day from the regions of this calamity. In the district of Sala, the shocks continue, less severe during the day than during the night, and each is preceded by an alarming noise. On the 28th, at 9 P.M., and on the 29th, at 6 and ½ past 7 P.M., three strong shocks of earthquake took place, each of from 10 to 12 seconds' duration, and followed by others less intense. At Potenza, also, on the evening of the 29th at 6¾, a strong shock of undulatory earthquake was felt, followed by others less severe during the night. They were all harmless, but at the first the people who were in the houses, fled out into the open spaces.

In continuation of the accounts relative to the effects of the earthquake of the 16th December, we state that on the 23rd two ladies and two children were taken alive from the ruins in Montemurro, having been buried seven days.

In Muro, Rionero, S. Fele, and Castelgrandine, no positive damage is to be deplored, only injuries to private dwellings. In Pescopagano one house fell; but no death occurred.

We have received the following particulars relative to the disasters in Canosa:—

The number of buildings entirely destroyed, is eleven: of those injured and falling, ninety-six. In a house in the Strada S. Giacomo two children were disinterred, one dead, the other alive.

In another house in the Strada Carozze, six were extricated alive, one perished. In another house in the same street, three were taken out badly hurt, two perished. A woman was killed by the fall of a house in the Strada Forte.

Ruvo suffered no injury. The Syndic reports that on the morning of the 7th of December, about 13 o'clock, Italian time, a report like the explosion of a mine in a closed place was heard by all the inhabitants, the greater part of whom were yet in bed; a momentary shock of earthquake followed.