sentences:  After engulfing the port and three city blocks inland beyond the harbour, the waves swept away people, a number of ships that had been anchored in the harbour, fishing boats and ferries, and inflicted further damage on the edifices within the zone which had remained standing after the shock.The ships that were still attached to their moorings collided with one another but did not incur major damage.Afterwards Messina harbour was filled with floating wreckage and the corpses of drowned people and animals.