Ruined Reggio di Calabria Recounted in Historic Sketch
Reggio di Calabria once capital of its province and archiepiscopal see, with 44 915 inhabitants. The piece traces its ancient roots as Rhegium, conquests by Dionysius I and Rome, later Gothic and Saracen occupations, and earthquake rebuilt splendor including the cathedral, Civic Museum, Castello, and promenades. Nearby towns such as Messina Catania Riposto Bagnara and Cassano are noted with distances and populations. Garibaldi was wounded near Aspromonte in 1862.
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Reggio
Reggio di Calabria
Italy
B. C
Dionysius I
Syracuse
Totila
Robert Guiscard
Capella del Sacramento
Strada Delle Caserme
Garibaldi
Piazza Vittorio Emanuele
Italia
Messina
Aspromonte
Pallavicini
Sicily
Catania
Riposto
Taormina
Bagnara
Cosenza
Italian Chef From Messina Struggles With Earthquake News
Angelo Siracusa, a pastry chef from Messina, sails to America to seek wealth for his family. In Boston he becomes manager of F Amante's Italian pastry shop and saves money, but a Messina earthquake devastates relatives, fuels cablegram fever, and leaves him fearing they may be dead. Local bank officials and godfather fear for kin as unrest spreads.
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Angelo Siracusa
Messina
America
Angelo
Boston
F. Amante
North Square
Mario
Antonino Castiglione
Colo
Italian Quake Victims Prompt Boston Immigrant Grief
In Boston's North End residents scramble for news after a Sicily earthquake. Bankers and steamship offices fill with anxious natives seeking tickets home and updates. Angelo Siracusa consoles fellow countrymen while awaiting word from Taormina. A relief mass meeting is organized at 144 North Street.
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North End
Boston
Little Italy
Lower North Street
Clark Street
Italy
Angelo Siracusa
Post
Taormina
Sicily
M. Squiliciotti
North Street
Clark
G. Cambria
Messina
Gangemi Fillippa
Cambria
Earthquake Lasted 23 Seconds Sparks Reported Over Calabria
A Messina observatory report states a 23 second quake accompanied by flames in the sky and ground oscillations that unsettled crowds. Experts like Suess and Milne discuss crustal subsidence, suboceanic origins, and regional faulting, with forecasts of potential volcanic activity and seismic patterns across Europe and Asia.
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Messina
Quake Cause Linked to San Francisco Theory
Yale Professor William H. Brower argues Sicily quake shares a fault line cause with the San Francisco event. He describes the Mesina Straits disturbance as a tidal wave effect that receded water and then surged back, inundating land that had slipped.
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Brower
Yale
Earth
New Haven
Conn
William H. Brower
Yale Today
Sicily
San Francisco
Straits of Messina
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Victor Emmanuel
Palermo
Calabrian
Hood
Charlestown
Chemical and Bacteriological Laboratory
Rutherford Avenue
Mass
Dairy Laboratory
Huntington Ave
Hood's Model Creamery
Beacon St
Tremont St
Gay North End
Mee
Santo
Antonina
Giuseppina
Villa Quellania
Letterio
S. Giovanni
Letterio Siracusa
San Giovanni
Nicolloti No. 29
Angelo Siractyusa
Fak
Paul Bombari
The
Orren
Edward Suess
Calabria
Professor Suess
Scylla
Peleritan
Suess
John Milne
Isle of Wight
Europe
Professor Milne
Japan
Ocean
Seaboard
Milne
South American
Valparaiso
Iquique
Tuscarora Deep
J. T. T. Lee
Mare Island Observatory
Globe
Beecham
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