Marshall County Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1855-1859, 1858-02-11
Correspondence of the New York Times.]
The Earthquake i'm Naples


The details which cotinue to arrive from
the provinces Of BasIlicata and Principate
Cierioro are Of the most distressing char
acter, and ars much more explicit. Full
as they are, however. they do not give one
tenth part of the injuries that have be en- in.
aicted. partly because the authorities will
not make them known, and partly because
they are not as yet informed OF the greater
portion of them. The official journal OF
Saturday night contains the names Of forty
SIX other townships. hitherto unnamed not
mentioned. Of these, it is said, some are
mass of ruins; others leveled with the
ground; others almost entirely destroyed,
churches, dwelling houses and all; in some
workmen are pulling down the houses, and
in other large assures are opened in the
ground. Out of these forty-six places,
twenty are reported to have lost some por.
ton of their population; of one, il is said
one hundred corpse have been taken out
of an other seventy: ard it is expected tina
three hundred will be found but of The dis
aster an alarming ignorance.is protested BY
such terms as these. MANY victims not ali
unburied," "Vast numbers persisted; the
number not yet known" Great. but un
known, the number of victims" 1t is my
opinion, therefore, that what have beef
called the exaggeraiions of the public mucl
more nearly approximate to the trutl. thar
the scanty and uncertain information pub
lished in the official journal. Accordin.
to it three thousand six hundred and sixty
five bodies have already been dug out:
fearful number to think of, to which, W,
add the number as yet unknown, we shall
not be very much startled at the medium
statement given of about thirteen or four
teen victims. Tho first efforts made are t.
erect temporary wooden buildings for tn
survivors. Men are employed, too, il
knocking down the falling houses and il
burying the numerous dead. Care is ais
, being taken to disinfect those places wher
the dead lay in the greatest numbers Blu
all the exeItions that can be made will onl'
, tend to alleviate the misery which ha.
been occasioned by tine fearful blow tina
has fallen upon this unfortunate people,
A general collection is to be opened for tn
relief of the sufferers, an other will be mad
. by the English themselves.
The characters Of the ;wo awful shock
which were the occasion of the disaster. j
thus described from Potenza. the Capitol @
Bascilicata: They were of equal duration
] and the first was preceded and accompa
, MED by fearful subterraneous thunder, tn
; same we observed in Naples. The sky wa
ssrsce and the air was tranquil. The frs
was unI,nlatory and "suisultario, tina
which followed shout three minutes, witt
, vet more violent undu..ation and "suisulti.
was marked by vertical md convulsiv
movements The walls were thrown on
, over the other; heavy furniture was move,
, out of its place, or, as it were whirled round
while lighter articles and glass were thrown
, to great distance. The effect of the sec
ond shock upon the houses may be imag
} ined. during which the falling houses struc
one against another. The victims in Po.en
IA seems to have been among the poore
classes who, having retired to rest, had NJ
time to escape. The intendent. Signor Ros
t sica, who escaped in his shirt, seems t
have been most meritoriously active. Thos
: who remained alive after the underground
? thunders and shocks, says the journal
5 considered themselves rather to have beeI
: born again than preserved.
e 1t would be tedious to give you the fresl
Y details which have just been brought i
: since the commencement of this letter.
j They are represented to be of ever increas
Y ing gravity, and the names of many othe
n places damaged are given. On the est
g the namini practici had been sent to tn
: site of destruction, and on the 28th thre
i other persons to disinter and disinfect.-
n From Gaeta had been dispatched two hun
e dred soldiers of the seventh OF the line an
: two hundred pioneers, but the movemer
. was late,