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Rovince was that of February 5, 1783. The ground was agitated in all
directions, swelling like the waves of the ocean. Nothing could
withstand such shocks, and not a building upon the surface remained
erect. The beautiful city of Messina, the commercial metropolis of
Sicily, was reduced to a heap of ruins. Upon March 4, a fresh shock,
almost as violent as the first, completed the work of destruction. The
number of persons who perished in Calabria and Sicily during these two
earthquakes is estimated at 80,000 and 320 of the 365 towns and villages
which Calabria contained were destroyed. The greater number of those who
lost their lives were buried amid the ruins of the houses, but many
perished in fires that were kindled in most of the towns, particularly
in Oppido, where the flames were fed by great magazines of oil. Not a
few, especially among the peasantry dwelling in the country, were
suddenly engulfed in fissures. Many who were only half buried in the
ruins, and who might have been saved had there been help at hand, were
left to die a lingering death from cold and hunger. Four Augustine monks
at Terranova perished thus miserably. Having taken refuge in a vaulted
sacristy, they were entombed in it alive by the mass
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