Milford chronicle., 1885-01-30
RURIEp UNDER AvALANCnEs.
Erent Loss Of Life in Piedmont and SAVOY
Towns Overwhelmed,


Towns Overwhelmed
News has been received that villages ID the
highlands of Piedmont and Savoy have been
devastated by avalanches. Three villages in
Piedmont, including the important village Of
Frassino, have been buried under avalanches
from the Piedmontese Mountains. The town
of Chaumont. in France, capital Of the De-
partment of Haute Marine, at the foot Of the
Vosges Mountains, is partly overwhelmed with
snow and many people there have been killed.
Another fatal avalanche has occurred at
SparOner, on the Dora Boltea river, a few miles
south of Urea. Fifteen persons are known
to be buried under the snow at SparOner, and
most of the other inhabitants are engaged in
digging out the survivors. The villagers who
have been made homeless are in great distress
and have appealed for relief from the royal
treasury at Rome. Troops have been sent
from Rome to assist the villagers.
LATER.
The avalanche which buried Frassino, in
Piedmont, caused great loss Of life. Thirty
UOlles have already been recovered. Forty
persons are still missing.
Terrible accounts continue to be received
from the region Of the Piodmonte5e Alps Of
casualtiesand destruction caused by snOwstorms
and avaanches. Twenty houses have been de-
stroyed and forty persons killed at Borgoriyo.
Fifty houses have been demolished at Fras-
there is eleven. In the little village Of Fras-
sino, which has total population Of less than
eighteen hundred, seventy persons have been
killed. Soldiers have been sent to all the
places named to assist the villagers in digging
ont the dead and rescuing the wounded VIC
tins.
At Frassino. which is nineteen miles north
west of the capital city -Cuneo-the number
of killed is now stated at 40, and forty-One
corpses have been recovered from the ice
and snow in which they were entOmbed.
The village of NalgTana, on the Granda
River and near Cuneo is partly
destroyed and many persons have been killed.
Twelve houses have been demolished and
forty-two persons killed at Deyeis. The vii
lage of RabassO is almost completely buried
under the snow. Scores Of people have been
killed there, and over two hundred men, wo-
men and children are wounded, homeless and
in awful distress.
An avalauche buried hamlet Of fifteen
houses at Chamonte, in Piedmont. The cries
of the buried people could be distinctly heard
for some time, while the soldiers were yainly
trying to rescue them.
At Metoulles, in the Department Of Hautes-
Alpes, the snow crushed a church, in which
number of persons were worshiping. AL
were buried under the snow, as were also twenty
men who were working in a marble quarry
near by. volunteer force is now engaged in
digging out the victims of the disaster.
1t is reported that 200 persons have persisted
in the snow in the districts of lvrea and Aosta.
Further details of the devastation caused by
the avalanches in the Piedmontese Alps are
coming in slowly the telegraph lines being
prostrated and the post roads blocked
with snow in many places. A re-
port from Bronasco says that nine persons
we're killed and many others injured in that
village. At Chiabrando every house was
buried, and in some cases the masses Of ice
and snow covering the houses were twenty feet
deep. The soldiers and the neighboring vii
layers are laboring with desperate energy to
rescue the survivors. Scores Of dead bodies
have been taken out, and in many cases they
bear no marks of injury, showing that they
must have been suffocated. Many of the sur
vivors who have been rescued had been I'M
prisoned in narrow and partly wrecked cabins
for several days with the corpses Of their rela-
tiyes who had been killed.