The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1858-02-11
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EARTH QUAKE IN NAPLES!!
Horrible Scenes and Incidents!!
FIFTEEN THOUSAND vICrIMsm
5000 Bodie. Already Recovered. r.

1 .u Hf.aH .LIiN OFF NAFLES, DeC. ~.
The details which continue to arriv
from the provinces Of Basllicata an,
Principate Citerior are OF the most dis
tressing character. and are much m r,
explicit. Full as they are, however
they do not give us tenth part Of th'
injuries that have been inflicted, partly
because the authorities will not max,
them known, and partly as they are moi
as yet informed Of the greater portion o
them. The official journal Of Saturday
night contains the names Of 46 other
townships hitherto unnamed, which have
suffered severely, and yet all are not
mentioned. OF these. it is said, some
are a mass of ruins; others leveled tc
the ground; others almost entirely des.
troyed-churches. dwelling houses and
all; in some workmen are pulling down
the houses. and in others, large assures
are opened in the ground. jI'
Out Of these .6 places, go are report
I'd to have lost some portion oi their pop
ulalion; Of one il has been said 100 corp
SEES has been taken out; of another 10;
and it is expected that 500 will BE- found;
but Of the amount ot the disaster an alar
ming ignorance is proiessed by such
terms as these: "slany victims not all
unburrird; Vast numbers perished, the
number not yet kuown;" Great. but
unknown the number OF Victims" 1t is
my opinion, therefore, that what have
been called the exSggeralions Of the pub.
lie more neatly approximate to the truth
than lhr scanty aud uncertain information
published in be official journal. Accor-
ding 10 it 1886 bodies have been dug
out already, a fearful number 10 think OF,
to which il We add the numbers yet un-
known. We shall not be very much start
led at the medium statement given OF
about $4,000 or l4,u00 victims. The
first efforts made are to erect temporary
wooden buildings for the survivors.
Men are employed. too, in knocking
down the fall ny houses and burying the
dead. Care is also taken to
those places wnere the dead lay
in the greatest numbers But all the ex.
ertions that can be made will only tend
to slightly alleviate the misery which has
been oscssioned by the fearful blow that
has fallen upon this unfortunate people.
TIE character of the two awful shocks
which were the occasion OF the disaster,
s thus described by Pontonza. the capt.
Il of Bassilicata. They were Of equal
and the first was preceded and
accompanied by fearful subterraneous
hunder, the same we observed in Ma.
,les The sky WIS serene and the air
tranquil The first was undulatory, and
'suisultaria;'' that which followed is
bout three minutes. with vet more vo-
ent undulations and "snissulti," was
marked by vertical and conclusive move
nents. H.asl.wa." y4~#.EVa fa4lj
The walls were thrown one over the
ther; heavy furniture was moved out of
ts place. or, as 1t were, whirled round
'hile the lighter articles and glass were
brown to great distance. The effect
t the second shock upon the houses may
e imagined, during which the failing
ousrs struck one against the other. The .
ic,ims in Potenza seem to have been
mopg the pnorer classes. who having re.
red to rest had no time to escape. The
,,endent. Signor Rossica, who escaped
j, his sh ri, seems 10 have been most mer-
loriously active. Those who remained
live after the underground lhunders and
ne shocks. says the Journal, consider
lemselvcs rather to have been born again
ian preserved. II would be tedious 70
i've you the fresh details which have jus.
en- brought in since the commencement
this letter t'ifa .''ti -.H'l
They are represented to be Of ever in j.
easing gravity, and the names of many
her places damaged are given On
e s5th the memini p,octie; had been
mt to the site Of destruction, and on the
,thtl three other persons To- disinter
i'd disinfectas From Csets had been
spatchea 200 soldiers Of the line. and I