Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-02-05
Further Particulars OF the Great Earthauake
Naples.
From Cor. Of London News-l

| At Naples.
/ From Cor Of London Sewsl
MALES January q
= The bad odor arising from the putri
| bodies is represented as having been in man,
places insupportabie, and the intendente o
Salerno is said to have advised that thing
should be left they were-the surface O
the ruins being smoothed over in the from
| of one vast burial place. This was not per
mitted; and it was only on Christmas eve
in many places that people were sent to bu
ry the dead. But the work could not be con-
ti1ued. There was an insuficiency of hands
there were no instruments for dragging
| out the bodies, no carts for transports, nC
provisions for the workmen. To look aftel
| the health of that desolate neighborhooC
and to disinfect the country, only twelve
members of the Board OF Health have been
| sent, and two "buriers"-neither medica
| men--nor an extraordinary Commission
nor civil or military authorities, with the Al
ter Ego of King. And to the scourge of
the earthquake is added the danger of Pesti-
| Ience and famine, and the terrible couvic-
ton that these horrible sufferiugs come moi
so much from DEGREES of Heaven as from
the Indifference or negligence or maiadmin-
istration of man.
I now give you condensation of the Of
| fetal reports from the scene of ruin publish
ed since wrote, and find the names of 81
additional places given as having suffered
more or less from the shock. s 'me had
no dead--others their one, two. forty and
400 Several thousands in one place--in
others less afflicted, children suff'oeated; peo
pie drawn out alive after having been buried
! eight days. Had prompt assistance been
rendered, how many more might have been
saved! 1t is sickening and heart rending to
peruse even the cautious official reports
! how much so those which have from pri-
/ vate sources. One place. Tito, was swal-
/ lowed up, and no traces left; and a gentle
! man who has returned from the spot thus
describes il:
/ "The roads were rent with assures which
had been much wider in the first instance.
The poor people were sitting amongst the
ruins weeping and in great distress; for six
days after the disaster, they had none to un.
bury their dead. Two country people were
searching among the deeds and found a
body; one threw stone towards it, saying
/
No. replied the other, after an examina
ton. There was nothing to be found te
eat, nor any house to lodge in. One Trat
toria stood at the corner of a street in Polla.
[ asked the owner for food. Food, there
is none, was the reply; the moon has JUS
entered the quarter, and we shall have an.
other earthquake. | won't go in The
whole time was there, there was continual
tremblings of the earth. The only person
who was saved in the prison of Polia was a
gendarme, confined for having murdered his
uncle, and he had been made director o
excavations
Letters from Brenza, on the 3lst ult., say
tn at up to the 29th no assistance had been
received; yet most of the afflicted persons
are within one hundred miles of Naples
The latest reports from Sala say that vertica
movements of the earth continued, not 81
severe by day as by night, and they were
preceded by fearful detonations. On the
28th ult., al P. NJ, and on the 29th, at
and 7s P. NJ, very severe undulatory shock;
were felt, followed by MANY others les!
strong. In Potenza, in the evening OF tht
29th, at O'Clock, strong, undulatory shock
were felt, which were followed by Others
much less intense. The people were mucl
alarmed, and fed into the open spaces
+" Order,'' says the Official Journal, "wa
not interrupted" Here, in Naples, up t.
Christmas Day, we have had, it is said
forty shocks, and every day reveal
some olision in a house, making work fo
the architects. 9" On the night of the 29th,
says a person who resides IN Resina, " from
two hours before midnight to dawn of day
the shocks from the mountain occurred ev
cry three minutes doors and window
shook as If powerful hand was trying t
wrench them. / rose once or twice to Sc
if any window had been burst open; AM
thus, we are living over q cauldron of lqui
fire''
Laurenzaua, Tito, Brienza and B1arsico
nuvo are destroyed, and have almost entirel
disappeared. Polla is one heap of ruins
and nearly in the same state. The Kin
himself says that upward of fifteen lhousan
persons have lost their lives From what
have heard, the number must be double
Indeed, people talk of forty thousand, an
though | by no means adopt the calcula
ton, yet | shall not be surprised to find
: TOP true, SO much more hideous has the re
altty proved to be than was at first stated
Private reports from persons who have tie'
from that neighborhood state that for sey
eral days after, the cries of the victim
under the RUNS were heartrending, yet ther
was no assistance at hand; labor could nc
be obtained for money, the country peopl
had fled in fear-the friends of the victim
were almost incapable of exertion, and tn
, thousands of myrmidons in the pay of go'
ernment, who might have rendered goe
service to humanity, were not permitted
come. 1t will be no exaggera ton, ther
tore, to say that thousands must have pc
: ished for lack of help.
Ffiiiibusterins.