Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-02-02

Of ruin. TE6y describe the country in
many places As brb iped with assures which
II 65st bad been xery vide, but nov hAd
nnAeh klbsed. iDesing sse whole tine ~ /
theit visit the ground vag heaving bensath
them, There was universal panic and
grief, and no light part Of 1t arose from
the fact that there was no one to search
beneath the ruins or TO bury their dead
I. speak of the 2lst and ED ult, that is
to say, of six DAYS after the date Of the
disaster. Letters from Briensa OF the 3ist
uls., cay that no reliefhad been as Jet. re-
ceived. Ny informants, in wandering |
through Polla. could get no food, and even
bread was wantingin many places. Those
who were dug out alive--some after six
or eight days OF living burial--awoke to
famine and dearth The details which I
receive are more horrible than can be
easily conceived. ig3 ~ agsal Il
Any one who has read my narrative at
tentively, must admit either the indiffer-
ence, or the Incidence, or the mal-admin-
istration Of the Government, and, in fact,
the public voice is very strong on the sub
iect. No member Of the royal family has
gone down 20 the afflicted neighborhood;
vet such IL the state of pupilage in which
1.-The nation isAheld, that not a leaf can move
without the will or even the command Of
the King, and the King shuts himself up
in Gaeta. The intendeDti OF Salerno and
Potenza, who have acted with great en-
\ ergy on the occasion, have demonstrated, /,
and the fo,m has been up TO Naples sew
4 eral times Yet am credibiy informed
that bread has been wanting in many
places, though most of the afflicted spots
lie within q radius Of 100 miles OF Ma
pies, and railway traverses nearly thirty
miles of the distance. 2 9 ''8 sDin hi't.s
Again, the smell from tho bodies wac
so pestilential in some places that Signol
Aioss is said to lave recommended that
. the surface Of the ground should be COW
cred and levelled instead of being opened,
but this was not permitted, and only or
the Christmas eve were persons sent to
tbury the dead. As. however, instruments
carriages, and provisions were wanting
the work could not be continued The
Board of Health sent down l2 persons
only to disinfect province, and to givt
orders for the public health Of 100 com
munes. Two persons also were sent dowl
! as. s'sepellitori," to superintend the buria
of the dead-no one else, no civil or mil
itary authorities, with the ''alter ego" o
the King, not even an extraordinary com
mission. H
Since writing the above other and NOR
affecting details have arrived Of the des
olation caused by the earthquake. Lau
renzano, Tito, Brienza, and Marsicanuov
have. almost entirely disappeared. Th
: King himself says that upwards of l5, 90
have perished. and, from what l hav
heard, the real number must be nearl
: double. People who have come from tn
spot report that the groans of the sufferer
were heard from beneath the ruins severs
. days after the disaster, and thst, horribl
= to relate, on some bodies being taken ou
: it was found that they had deyoured Po
. ton Of their arms. There were none
p aid them, none to excavate the dying, MOI
= J to bury the dead, none to give bread
Z the famishing.