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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 8, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 41.

Wide Spread Calamity.

News despatches bring the details of a fearful cyclone which swept over the island of Sicily the last week in September. The greatest damage was wrought at Modica where 200 lives were lost. Property is damaged to the extent of $250,000,000. September 27 a pleasure yacht capsized in the Black Sea and 20 persons were drowned. The same day, a passenger train in France, en route from Lille to Châlons, was wrecked, in which 20 were killed outright and a score injured. On the same day, too, there was a collision of freight trains in Rawlins, Wyo., and in the wreck and fire which followed, six men are believed to have been killed. September 28 a fire broke out in a pavilion used for exhibitions in which a fair was in progress, in Stockton, Cal., and ceased not its ravages till it had consumed nearly six blocks, four almost entirely. The four which suffered most are bounded by Washington, Hunter, Sonora, and Sutter streets. The fire beginning in the day time, but one life was lost. Damage is estimated at a half million dollars, with little insurance. Volcanic activity is reported from Mexico and from Stromboli, in the Mediterranean.