The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1858-02-06
From the Cores pondcnt of the London Times.
The Earthquake III Naples.
NAPLES. Dec. 2G

t, they are, however, they do not give US one
d tenth part of the injuries that have been
= inflicted, 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 Sat
urday night contains the na;nes Of 4G other
townships, hitherto unnamed, which have
suffered severely, and yet all are not men
toned. OF these, it Is said, some are a mass
OF ruins; others level!ed with the ground :;
!, others almost entirely destroyed churches,
a dwelling houses, and all in some workmen
: are pulling down the houses, and in others
large tissures are opened in the ground.
t Out Of these AZ places, 30 are reported to
I have lost some portion of their population !;
OF one it Is said 100 corpses have been Ia
! ken out; of another, 70; and il is expected
i that 800 will be found; but Of the amount
OF the disaster an alarming ignorance il pro-
fessed by such terms as these: Many vic.
TINS are not all unbured; ;" Vast numbers
perished, the number not yet known"
Great, but unknown, the number Of vict-
inns" Ii is my opinion, therefore, that what
have been called the exsggerations of the
pubic are much more nearly approximate to
the truth than the scanty and uncertain in
formation published in the official journal
According to it, 3, $50 bodies have been dug
ol4i, Il lCdiiti ~ iiI!!.h oi, ~ WHICH
If we add the numbers yet unknown, We
shall not be very nuch startled at the me
dunn statement given Of about IS, ,O0G or
1900 victims. The first efforts made are
to erect temporary wooden buildings for the
survivors.
Men are employed, too, in knocking down
the falling houses and Ia burylng tue nu-
merOIs dead. Care Is a.O being taken to
dsiE!ect those places where the dead lay Ia
the creates. numbers But ali the exertobs
at can be made viii only tend 10 slightly
allaviatc the misery which has been occas-
ioncd by the fearful blow that has fallen up
on this unfortunate people. the character
o! the two s~iul shocks which were the oc-
. casISn q! the disaster, II thus described from
PonioHzg, the capital OF Basilicais. They
were Of equal duration. aud the nr,t was
preceded and accompanied ty fearful sub
( tcrraneous thunder, the same we observed
in Naples The shy WAS serene and the
/ air tra,qUil. The first was uudu!.tory and
- suissu!taria, was marked y vertical and
cOuvu.sIve movements.
The va IS we're thrown one over the 0lli-
or, heavy furniture was moved out Of ls
/ place, or, q, It were, HAIried around si.i.s /
The lighter articles aud glass were thrown 3
. 10 great distance. Tee effect of the second
shock upon the houses may be Imagined I
during which Tie Ia Ing houses str3k one
against another The otE4s in poienzl
seem u have been among the poor c..,
-, who having retired 10 rest A2d no time ,
10 escape. Tie inteuaent, Si.nOy Rossiea,
who escaped .. MS shirt, seems 10 have .
beun most mtrItoriOu~iy active. Those who .
remained alive after The underground tAGn- .
dcr> and the shocks, says the yo4rzai, con
s;dered themselves rather to have been born .
s-aiu than preserved. Ii would be tedious .
to give you the flesh details which have
just been brought Ia since the commeucc-
mrut of this letter.
They are represented to be OF ever increaS- /
in. gravity, zHI the names OF many other .
places damaged ate given. On tn 10Th,
the Aou,td yractici had been sent TO the /
site OF destruction, anu on the 2Sth three
other persons to dIsiuter and disintect.-i
From Gaeta had been dispatched 200 sol
dier- Of the Ith Of the line, shd 200 pioneers.
bat the movement vas late. From the hos
p,tal > 500 military tents have been dispatch
Cd. and greet quantities ci materials for
building. and of food. IL Is to be hoped,
therefore. that more dispatch might have
been used ~ the first instance, II more en-
ergy inspired by the presence OF member
Of the royal family, the wants OF the suffer
ers viii Ue temporarily provided for.
MALES, Jan. 81
proceed to give further details from the
provinces regarding the ail-ahsorbing sub
iect of the earthquake. The official journal
of " ednesday night cnumcrates sxty-one
places which had suffered in their buildings
and many IN their population. Under the
name Of each place Is given description OF
the disaster, aud tina LAST report sione gives
the number of scvergl-saY, 1000 CT 1000
additional, known to have suffered. Then
are described the other casualties, people
manned, crushed, others drawn out alive af-
ter a fearful scpulturc OF eight days. remn-
ding Us OF how many more might nave been
saved had proper eXertious been made. The
latest accounts, too, awaken considerable
apprensionS Of further disaster. The whole
district Of Sala is agitatcd by continual
movements Of The earth, stronger by night
team by day, and theso are preceded by fear
IN. detonatons. Moreover, about 0 o'clock
L. NJ. oithc 2Sth u.t, three stroug shocks,
lasting ten TO twelve seconds, We're felt, fol-
lowed 10y others less intense.
In PoteZa, too, on the evening Of the 29th
about quarter 10 : o'clock, a strong I'M
dulatory shcck was felt. and other light ones
during the night. No injury done, but
the population rushed out INTO some open
space here ia Naples it is said that since /
the 10th ait, We have had, up to Christ
mas eve, III shoSNs, anu II TCalIiS DC
believed. Almost every one finds some
trace of them in his house; the shocks, too, ,
which were felt in Potenza on the evening
OF the 2gth were felt in Naples ard, in some :
cases, created great alarm. However, every I
one looks to vesuviouS for safety, and on
that night it in violent movement I
People who reside a, Resina tell me that du- /;
ring the whole night the shocks Fl ON the I
mountain were of most violent and contin- =
Gus character. Every three minutes it APP ,
peared as If a desperate man were trying to I
wrench open thG doors and windows. Moth I
ing, however. took place.
have also reports to give you from pIi
vate persons who have visited the scene of
ruin. The describee the country in many 4
places as crossed with assures which at first :
had been very wiee, but now had much +
closed During the whole time Of their Wis
il the ground was heaving beneath them =
There was universal panic an grief, and no ,
light part of it arose from the fact that there ,
was no one to search beneath the Luins or :
to bnry their dead. speak of the 2lst and !
2zd ult., 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 informants, in wander i,
ing through Po!!a, could get no food, and :
even bread WAS wanting in many places
Those who were ug out alive-soile after i
SIX or eight days of living burial l-awoke to :
famine aud death. The details which re- !
ceive arc more horrible than can be easily !
conceived.
ANY one who has read my narrative at ,
tentively, must admit either the inditter.
ence, or the incidence, or the mal-admgis- ,
tra,ion Of the Government and ia fact, the
public voice is very strong on the subject
No member of the royal family has gone