Italy's great horror of earthquake and tidal wave : terrible devastation and heart-rending scenes, immense loss of life and hundred millions of property destroyed, the mos appalling disaster of modern times containing vivid descriptions of this overwhelming calamity, suddennes of the blow, great number of victims, fall of great buildings, thousands driven from their homes, this unparalleled catastrophe leaves Messina and other beautiful cities heaps of ruins from stories told by eye witnesses to which is added graphic accounts of the eruptions of Etna, Vesuvius and other volcanoes, explaining the causes of earthquakes, tidal waves and volcanic eruptions / compilde by Jy Henry Mowbray, Ph. D. LL. D. the celebrated author traveller and lecturer - Mowbray, Jay Henry