3-071-123 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Casamicciola, Ischia, 1881. 'Some account was given last week of the destructive earthquake and loss of life on Friday, the 4th March, at Casamicciola, in the Isle of Ischia, Bay of Naples...we have since received from a Naples correspondent, R. Michely, several other sketches, with photographs, representing the actual effects of this great disaster. We gave a brief description of the island, with its small towns and villages, and Mount Epomeo, an extinct volcano, rising in the centre. Casamicciola, famed for its medicinal springs, is a favourite watering-place for invalids from Naples, being twenty miles distant from that city and seven or eight miles from the nearest point of the mainland...The latest accounts from Casamicciola correct the previous statistics as follows: - Killed - Twenty-three men, forty-one women, twenty-nine boys, twenty-four girls. Four hundred and forty-nine homes, containing 1479 rooms, destroyed. Two hundred persons were rendered houseless. The theatre and great furnaces for brickmaking have now been turned into habitations, 200 sheds being constructed for the destitute families, but some were removed to Naples'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.