Tnenz are terrible accounts in some of the papers just to hand of the calamity in Ischia. The suddenness and completeness of the catastrophe seem to have been unprecedented, A very few lines in the Spectator present the acone in a strikingly alistic "Tt was about half-past nine in hho theatre was open at Casamicciola, and the curtain hed just drawn up; inthe chief hotel, a Welsh gentleman—who porished—was playing a Funeral March, when suddenly a shock brought down most of the walls in the island; visitor in his room on the fourth storey of the hotel found himself wounded:
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