Morning journal and courier., 1883-07-30
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. TERRIBLE EARTHQUAKE Thousands of People Bur-
 fed in the Earth. VINEYARDS AND FARMS DESTROYED. The Photographers Still
 Defiant. THE PRESIDENTS EXCURSION. Disasters By Fire and
 Flood.
 THE OLD WORLD.
THE OLD WORLD.
Italy.

An Earthquake-Terribls LOzs of Life Thousands of People Swallowed up in the Earth - Vineyards, Farms and Mines DestrOyed-lRfense Terror and HelplessnesS.
 NAPLES, July 29.--An earthquake today destroyed the productive part of the Island of Ischia in the Mediterranean, seven miles distant from the Puzzuali shore and twenty three miles from Naples. Vineyards, farms, mines and summer residences by the hun dred were destroyed and three thousand lives were lost. The loss of life is based on the estimate of the government officials who consider their figures lower than the actual facts will probably warrant. The whole island is in a condition of intense terror, suf- fering and helplessness, although all the steam vessels within reach have been during the entire day endeayoring to aid the people and have removed many thousands of the in iured to the mainland, the government hav- ing acted promptly and called into action every department. The thousands of injured cannot be estimated beyond such an estimate as can be made by a com parison of the number of dead with the total population of the island which, while greatest in the summer season, is less than 30, ,O0O Many who have seen the destruction at Casamicciola and other points believe the dead and injured will number more than two-thirds of the popu- lation. No one places the number below 15 0OO. Details of~the disaster cannot be got in any intelligibie shape, and it's begin ming and movement will not be understood until the completion of the report of the government officers who are collecting.
 The destruction was most complete at Cassa- micciola, the famous pleasure resort, with it's hot springs and baths situated at the foot of Mount San Niccolo, @ volcanic mountain g. 600 feet high, which has for several centuries been regarded as quite extinct. Of it's popu lace of LOGO and summer visitors to an equal number, few escaped death or injury, and the losses deeply affect every portion of Italy as the guests are from the the entire kingdom. Several members of the national assembly of the senate are miss ing and unaccounted for, while the earth opened and buried forever 8 number of Roman families who had visited the island on 8 pleasure excursion, Cassamlcclola being only six hours ride by rail and steamer from the capitol Many hundreds were killed at Ischia the capitol of the island and the sea- port nearest. to the mainland, among them being the prefect Fiorentine. As soon as the news reached Rome and Naples assistance of every available sort was forwarded. Among the first to 4eave for the scene were Admiral Acton the minis ter of marine, and Signor Berti, the minister of trade, who were not content to issue their commands from Rome, but strove to take personal supervision of the measures for aid on the ground. They were accompanied or followed by all the physicians available throughout a large district of country and by details of several hundred soldiers and marines, whose services could be utilized as sappers or in temporary hospitals or kindred work. They improvised stretchers and carried hundreds of the wounded to the steamers which took them as well as numbers of the homeless to Naples Strong fears are estertafued of 8 second shock within the next twenty-four hours and the report is spreading that Mount Epomeo is on fire and that eruption is possible, the earthquake being only preliminary Such 8 disaster would wipe out the whole islsnds population since the mountain occupies, with it's craters, the cen. ter of the island, which contains only twenty-six square miles and slopes in every direction to the shore.