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Newspaper
Denver Tribune
Location
Denver, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1909
Page
4
Five robbers dynamited the Wellston bank and escaped with 5000 after two hours of exchange of gunfire with citizens. The heavily armed gang set a barbed wire barricade around the bank and protected the vault while comrades worked. No one was hurt.
In Paris, Count Bont de Castellane’s petition to place his three sons in his mother’s care was denied. The court ruled the children remain with their mother Princess de Sagan, and cannot leave Europe without continental permission. Beginning October 19, 1909, the boys will attend a college within 100 miles of Paris.
Reports describe Calabria and Sicily struck by a massive quake, with Messina and Meggio city vanishing or reduced to ruins. Thousands dead, possibly 150000, with survivors fleeing to safety as sea and tremors reshape the landscape in minutes.
Reports from Rome describe widespread destruction across Sicily and Calabria after a major earthquake and tidal wave. Cities such as Messina Catania Vittoria Patti and Reggio Calabria are listed as heavily damaged or destroyed with thousands feared dead. The strait’s navigation is blocked and lighthouses wiped out.
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