The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1868-03-06

excavation w2S pronounced 10 De danSer.
Gus. How high the mountain stands
which dominates Santa Lucia / cannot
precisely say-certainly many hundred
feet, and, composed as it is of very fra
bic materials, there was full expectation
that even larger masses would fall. On the
very summit, and at the extreme edge,
there are barracks, the stone facing of the
mountain had given way, and the appar
ent probability was that the tufa might
yield, aud this vast pile Of building top
pie over. The work of excavation, there
fore, was full of danger, not merely to
those engaged in it, but to the crowds
who stood around. Even as | looked
masses of rock and building fell, and here
aud there long lines of sand, as it were OF
smoke, came trickliug down. There were
very few persons employed, therefore, in
excavating; all that could be done was to
perserve order, and keep off the hosts of
street Arabs, who every now then tried to
break through the Gordon of soldiers.
The houses destroyed are lodging
house much frequerted by foreigners; two,
if not three, coral shops, shop where en-
cravings were sold, cafe partially 80, a
wine shop much frequented, aud one or
two small eating houses. | believe that
most in the lodging houses escaped they
had timely warning in certain noises made
by the breaking away of the cliff. A
family who were in an upper room were
unable to escape, but through the bravery
Of Captain Of the Bersagleri were got
down by ropes and ladders. An Ameri-
can gentleman who was lodging there was
severely wounded, and was sent off to the
Pellegriui. | have just visited him, as
the poor fellow knew only two persons in
Naples: and he has, moreover, a wound in
the head 1t is hoped that those who
were in the cafe had time to escape, as
the door is partially open; as to those in
the coral shops, the wine-shops and the
trattorje, they must inevitably be lost,
and 1t is learned there were many there.
Naples, January 80, correspondence to
the London Times.
This morning, having procured permit
went down again to visit the scene Of
the terrible els aster which has befallen
Naples. Prince Amedeo was there, some
of the authorities and one or two ongin-
GERS, while vast crowd was kept back by
barbados and the public force. Nothing
was being done, and literally nothing had
been done since yesterday; the works had
been suspended from the extreme danger
of continuing them and no decision had
been come to as to what should be done.
Such is a specimen of the miserable hest
tation which characteristics every person
and every movement in Naples. An en-
gineer in the royal corps If miners, named
Zampari, had completed yesterday three
metres Of a tunnel from the cafe in the
direction of the cellars of the wine-shop
round the corner, but received orders 20
desist, and so from twelve to twenty four
human beings, according to various state
ments, are suffered to remain there, posi-
bly, alive, without an effort to save them.
There may, indeed, be even more, for tn o
place was unusually .frequented AZ that
hour by sailors and soldiers, The tup-
neling is, however, about to be renewed,
as Zampari, with equal courage and hu-
manty, urged his request to the Prince
this morning to be allowed to recommcnce
the work, and few hours will reveal q
story Of life and death. How many per-
sons belonging to houses and shops under
the ruins may lie there is unknown, Dor
can it be ascertained who were crushed in
the road, as they were passing by at the
time of the accident.