The Indianapolis journal., 1883-08-20
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GENOA, Aug. 81 have this morning re-
eeived other information and details which
show me that l have underrated rather
Some of the incidents are exceedingly
touching. One poor man, q
restaurant-keeper, the father of eleven
children, sent one of his walters with food to
the temporary theater to fill the order d an
actor. This waiter was very fond of the
youngest child and took it in his arms to the
theater and thinking it would amuse the lit
tie thing left it there with some one and
went back TO the restaurant At 9:45 the
whole of that restaurant-keepers family in
that eating-house, save himself perished.
Wife and ten children were crushed beneath
the ruins, but the life of the little one at the
theater was saved. The poor man has, like
so many others, become insane.
Last year l was introduced by a lady friend
of ours to the Marchioness of Laureati, the
wife of a Roman nobleman. She was
Circassian lady, with those large, lustrous
black eyes so characteristic of the Circassians
and Georgians. The friend who introduced
us had deep interest in the spiritual we'll
fare of this noble lady, and had eonsidera-
BILE influence over her You can then i'm
agne our feelings when we read in the lead
ing journal of Naples, that the Marchioness
of Laureati was amongst those buried be-
meath the ruins of the hotel Piccola Senti-
nellie. She had been listening to the singers
in the amateur concert, and of course was in
full dress We had hoped to see that she
was amongst the rescued but the paper of
the succeeding morning contained the follow
ing, amongst other sad items: THE
greatest number of victims was at the Piccola
Sentinelle and there the laborers were sent
in great force. After long digging they
found the body of the Marchioness of Laureati
of Rome She was much injured but still
appeared beautiful" But how strong the
contrast of her personal decorations for that
evening concert with the sad reality of death.
''She had" continued the newspaper, two
magnificent diamonds in her ears, and
three strings of most large and precious pearls
around her throat. Her rich robes
were torn and stai ned with blood and dust,
but still showed their adornments of the
most costly and valuable laces." She doubt
less had lived some time after the catastrophe,
and the torn condition of her garments indi-
Gated struggles for life Poor lady, who
knows but in her terrible, hopeless condition
the teachings and prayers of that faithful
friend were answered and that she had, be-
fore life was extinct, resigned herself into
the arms of that Savior who had been low
ingly and earnestly brought before her in
Naples Her unhappy husband who was
not at Casamcciola at the time of the earth
quake, was present when her body was
found
! have Just received from Naples the intel
igence of the news of fifteen persons being
rescued alive and unhurt but nearly fam
ished, after four days and more beneath the
ruins. Two of these were buried respectively
Ill hours and lis hours. The one excavated
Ill hours after inhumation was perfectly
insane. Let US hope that the insanity will
prove to be temporary.
The greatest danger now seems to be from
pestifehce engendered by the atmosphere
~ .1.a.. Al.
bodies beneath the ruins. AT one time it
was thought that all who had been buried
by the crumbling houses were dead, and it
was proposed, as a matter of sanitary pre-
caution, that quicklime and liquid lime
shoulS be plentifully scattered and
sprinkled over the ruins. But the King was
the first TO protest against any such action,
saying LET us not hinder relatives and
friends from finding their dead, and let us
give the last chance to recover those who
may be alive"
Many of us who knew her, felt great
anxiety to know the fate of Miss Moore, an
aged English lady, who for years has lived at
Casamicciola, and has done great good on the
island by her material aid to the poor and
by her efforts for their spiritual welfare.
she inhabited a beautiful country seat OF her
own. But l am glad to see that, although
her house is in ruins and she herself is
wounded, her life is spared. DIR. storer, an
American physician, and a great authority
on insanity, formerly occupied a large build
ing called the Grande Sentinella. That
building is wholly destroyed with all
lItalianS) who were in il at the time. DIR.
Storer (who, by the way, is a nephew of
Judge Bellamy Storer, OF Cincinnati) is now
with his family in America.
1t is now considered that nearly 5000 per-
sons have persisted, and the latest informa-
tioh is that it was not in fifteen seconds, but
ia seven seconds, that the destruction WAS
wrought. J. c. '.