Connecticut western news., 1885-01-28
BURIED UNDER AVALANCHEs.
Great Loss of Life in Piedmont and Savoy
 Towns Overwhelmed.

News hss been received that villages ia 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- pertinent of Haute Marne, at the foot of the VosgeE Mountains, is partly overwhelmed with snow and many people there have been killed.
 Another fatal avalanche has occurred ct Sparoner, on the Dora Boltea river, few miles south of Irrea. 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 Frassiuo, in Piedmont, caused great loss of life. Thirty bodies have already been recovered. Forty persons are still missing.
 Terrible accounts continue to be received from the region of the Piedmontese Alps of casualties and destruction caused by snowstorms and ayalanches. Twenty houses have been de- Btroyed and forty persons killed at Borgoriyo sFifty houses have been demolished at FIas. siniere, and the number of fatal casualties there is eleven. Iu the little village of Fras- sino, which has total population of less than
 
 killed. Soldiers have been sent to all the places named to assist the villagers in digging out the dead and rescuiug the wounded vic tims.
 At Frassino, which is nineteen miles north west of the capital city-Cuneo-the number of killed is now stated at 140, and forty-one corpses have been recovered from the ice and snow in which they were entombed. The village of Valgrana, on the Granda River and near Cuneo is partly destroyed and many persons have been killed. Twelve houses have been demolished and forty-tHo persons killed at Deveis. The yil- lage of Rabasso is slmcst 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 ill awful distress.
 An avalanche buried 6 hamlet of fifteen houses at Chiamonte, in Piedmont. The cries of the buried people could be distinctly heard for some time, while the soldiers were vainly trying to rescue them.
 At Metoules, in the Department of Haute5- Apes, the snow crushed church, in which a number of persons were Horshiping All were buried under the snow, as we're also twenty men who were working in a marble quarry near by. A volunteer force is now engaged iD digging out the victims of the disaster.
 It is reported that 200 persons have perished in the snow in the districts of lyrea and Aosts Further details of the devastation caused by the ayalanches 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 ssys that nine persons were killed and many others injured iu 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 lagers 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 thelr rela. lives who had been killed.