Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1858-02-11
New Series---Vol. LII, No. Is.
EARTHQUAKE AT NAPLES.
The correspondent Of the London Times.


The correspondent of the London Times,
under date of january ., says:
[ proceed to give further details from
the provinces regarding the all absorbing
subject of the earthquake. The official
Journal of "Wednesday night enumerates
sixty-one other places which had suffered
in their buildings, and many in their pop
ulation Under the name of each place is
given a description of the disaster, and this
last report alone gives the number of sew
eral-say 1000 or 5000 additional known
to have suffered. Then are described the
other casualties manned, crushed;
Others drawn out alive after fearful sep
ulture of eight days, reminding us of how
many more might have been saved, had
proper exertions been made. The latest
accounts, too, awaken considerable appre-
tensions of further disaster The whole
district of Sala is agitated by continual
movements of the earth, stronger by night
than by day, and these are preceded by
fearful detonations Moreover, about 8
o'clock, p. m. of the 2Sth ult., and and
Il p. m. of the 18th ult, three strong
shocks, lasting ten or twelve seconds, were
felt, followed by others less intense.
In Potenza, too, on the evening of the
29th, about a quarter to ?. m., strong
undulatory shock was felt, and other light
ones during the night No injury was
done, but the population all rushed out
into some open space.
Here in Naples it is said that since the
16th ult., we have had, up to Christmas
eve, 40 shocks, and may readily be beliey-
cd. Almost every one finds some trace Of
them in his house; the shocks, too, which
were felt in Potenza on the evening of the
29th, were felt in Naples, and in some cases,
created great alarm. However, every one
looks to Vesuvius for safety, and OH that
night it was in violent movement. People
who reside at Resina tell me that during
the whele night the shocks from the noun
tains were Of most violent and continu-
Gus character. Every three minutes 1t ap-
peared as if desperate man were trying
to wrench open the doors and windows
Nothing, however, took place have also
reports to give you from private persons
who have visited the scene of ruin. They
describe the country in many places as
crossed with assures, which, at first had
been very wide, but now had much closed.
During the whole time of their visit the
ground was heaving beneath them. There
was universal panic and grief, and no light
part of it arose from the fact that there
was no one to search beneath the ruins or
to bury the dead I speak of the 2lst
and 22dsult. that is to say, of six days
after the date of the disaster. Letters
from Brienza of the 31st ult., say that no
relief had been as yet received. My infor-
mants, in wandefiae through Polla, could
get no food, and even bread was wanting
in many places. Those who were dug out
alive-some after six or eight days of llv-
ing burial-awoke to famine death. The
details which receive are more horrible
than can be easily conceived.
Since writing the above, other and more
affecting details have arrived of the desc
lation occasioned by the earthquake. Lau-
renzana, Tito, Brienza, 1[arsicanuovo have
almost entirely disappeared The King
himself says that upwards Of 10000 have
perished, and from what heard, says my
very sensible informant, the real number
must be nearly double. People who have
come from the spot report that the groans
of the sufferers were heard from beneath
the ruins several days after the disaster,
and that, horrible to relate, on some bodies
being taken out, it was found that they had
{ devoured portion of their arms. There
: were none to aid them, none to extricate
the dying, none to bury the dead, none to
give bread to the famishing. Thousands
of soldiers are maintained at the expense
of the State to support 'order,' but they
could not be sent to save thousands from
perishing. Many steamers were lying in
harbor, the expensive toys of the sovereign,
} but with one or two tardy exceptions, they
have remained snug in port People can
not refrain, from comparing the tardiness
displayed ON the present melancholy occa-
sion with the promptitude displayed in the
month of June last, when rebels landed in
Sapri.