Article July 31, 1902 Issue

The Fall of the Campanile

The falling of the famous Campanile of St. Mark's Square, Venice, has brought regret to lovers of the antique and beautiful, the world over.

A marked inclination of the Campanile was noticed last spring, and its destruction is attributed by Professor Belar, head of the seismic observatory at Laibach, Austria, to the effects of the earthquake in Salonica, European Turkey.

Fears have been expressed that the foundations of the entire city were deteriorating, and that the piles were becoming so rotten as to endanger other heavy structures; but Marchese Cassir, Prefect of Venice declares that the good condition of the substructure of the city is proven by the fact that the shock of the fall of the Campanile has affected neither St. Mark's Church, the Doge's Palace, nor any other building.

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