The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-14
A Visit to the sorne.

Vienna Allegemeine Zeitung
We left Naples few minutes after 10, and ar
rived at our destination shortly after -. After
some steep climbing reached the spot where
Casamicciola once stood. The place consisted of
a few groups of houses about 200 PAGES from the
sea, bnt, owing to the steepness of the road, it
required half an hour to get there 1t further
included anumber of detached houses and small
farms. could see before landing that the place
lad been destroyed; but the sight witnessed on
reaching the first terrace surpassed my worst
apprehensions. 1t was one heap OF ruins, with
not one building left standing. The beautiful
Hotel Bellevue, once visible long distance
from the island, has entirely disappeared 1
discovred the Hotel Gran sentinella. The stables
alone remain erect All the inmates appear to
have persisted. Dogs and ducks run about the
wreckage, scared out of their lives. Military en-
gineers, in blue and yellow unions. and infant
~ soldiers at work with pickaxe and spade
Twelve cOrpses, covere With straw mating,
are laid out in u row. "A s0l,.ls- tells me that
they are all men. and that shall see mure fur
ther on l arrived at the second terrace. III pen
sion near the Hotel Gran Sentinea is like sise in
ruins. Here the sight is really terrible large
number OF dead bodies lie strewn upon the
ground, fearfully mutilated. with CT ushed heads
and torn-Of limbs, spectacle too sfckening to
dwell upon. In the garden OF the villa Sauve.
which is completely wrecked an ambulance is
organized some fifty injured, including many
women and children, have been conveyed thither.
The soldiers have constructed small rush-cOvered
huts, there being no building left in which ac-
cOmmOdation can be provided for the injured.
The latter placed with their heads and chests
under the rush roof, the remainder of their bod
les being In the open air. There is no la elk of
either doctors or drugs. A sanitary column ar
rived by the first BOAT from Naples, ana the phy-
Ricians OF the penitentiary establishments at Pro
cida and BagDo were sent for All the wounded
are dressed in civilian clothes, and evident
ly inmates OF the different hotels and pensions.
Presently came up to the ruins of the Hotel
Bellevue, only the outhouses of which have es-
capped destruction. An ambulance similar to that
at the villa Sauve has been opened in the back
garden. Here l estimate the number of wounded
at about 100, all in civilian dress, Dead cattle
lie ABOUT the garden, where there also sew
eral live goats. The wfeckage of the hotel is
being actively cleared away, as it is believed
that large number of people are buried he
meath 1t. Many Injured have already
been taken out A few have been reached with
mere scratches, after spending hours OF mortal
terror under ground. Some Of the ccrpses bear
no trace of any external injury. ana were evil
IDENTITY suffocated II the disaster had occurred
during the day many might have been saved.
The work of salvage only began in good earnest
after the arrival of the troops, The natives
themselves were quite helpless, all the local
officials being apparently among the victims.
The lighthouses and hospital are all in ruins,
the patients being either killed or badly Injured
went back from the Hotel Bellevue IN the
direction of Ischia, and soon reached the ffrst
houses, most OF which are detached and are sur.
rounded by their own grounds. did not see a
single one left standing. As these peasants
dwellings are situated some little distance from
each other. it is not easy TO convey assistance
TO them. Dead and injured lie scattered around
everywhere. In some instances the peasants
themselves lend help, but fear thar, as an
engineer officer informed me, One-halr OF the
resident population, and almost all the visitors,
have persisted. The latter were particularly
exposed, as they lived in stoue-buU houses
and had retired to their lodgings when the
earthquake occurred. Many wrre suffering
from paralysis, rheumatism and gout, and
could make no attempt to escape, whereas a
number OF peasants got safely out of their cot
tages.