The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-11-19
ACTIVITY IN mount ETNA
Southern Italy Suffers from Severe
Earthquakes.
PEOPLE ARE BURIED IN RUINS
Sicily Involved in the Catastrophe, Which
Destroys Much Valuable Property.
Panic Reigns Everywhere and Thou
sands Are Camping in Open Air.

Rome, Nov. IS.
Reports of disasters caused by the
earthquakes in Southern Italy are still
meagre, but they suffice to show that
there has been great loss of life. Pro-
copio, a village of 1900 inhabitants In
Reggie Di Calabria, has been obliter-
ated.
Virtually all the buildings We're
thrown into ruins. The number or
deaths is not known, but in church
forty-seVen persons We're buried alive
under fallen walls. The last authorita-
tive report was that the list Of dead was
we'll above sixty. In another village OF
the same province eight persons We're
killed outright by falling buildings. The
damage has been enormous. Troops
and officials are going to the help of the
suffering districts. King Humbert has
sent several donations from his pri-
Vate purse.
The province of Reggie Di Calabra
has suffered most from the earth
quakes, althoubh several towns In the
adjacent province of Catanzaro Di
Calabria We're shaken severely. In Trl-
parni, for instance, twenty buildings
were laid In ruins and several persons
were killed. In Mileto, also In Catan
Zaro, many were injured. a school
house was shaken to the ground, but
the teachers and pupils had escaped u
few minutes before it fell.
At 10 o'clock this evening reports of
deaths. injuries and the demolition of
buildings had been reported from sew
enteen communities In Bagnara seven
persons were killed outright. In OPP
pido Mamertlna four, six in Santa Eup-
piha eight Scores Of others We're in
jured in these towns. In Milazzo, near
Hessina, n sharp shock was felt today.
Many walls were cracked, but nobody
was killed.
| In Messina, where the schocks were
almost as violent as across the strait,
the convicts in the penitentiary were
| panic stricken. Two hundred mutinied
and tried to escape by overpowering
| the guards, but they We're overpowered.
First Shock Most Violent.
The earthquakes were felt in south
ern Italy and Sicily. The first shock IL
Messina was the most violent. 1t last
ed twelve seconds. and was accom-
pnied with loud rumblings. The in
habitants fled shrieking with fright
from their homes, and filled the streets
with their clamor.
The hospital, although but slightly
damaged, was shaken so violently thai
many patients became hysterical and
had to be removed Most of the in.
habitants decided to pass the night il
the streets and open squares.
After two hours the rumblings begar
again, and the former scenes were re-
enacted. Men and women ran aimless
TO their knees and prayed aloud for de
liverance.
Today many streets are entirely de
serted. Dozens of persons have takel
refuge on ships In the harbor Thert
have been six shocks in all
In Reggie many houses are cracked
and threaten to fall at any moment
The panic stricken inhabitants ar
camping in shelters erected by soldiers
Patrols distribute food and other neces
saries. 1t Is known that six person
were killed and several injured in Bag
nara, but details are wanting owing L
the decentralization Of the railroad an,
telegraph services.
Signor Tacchinl chief of the Rom
observatory, believes that the shock
We're confined to the Liparl islands an
the provinces of Messina and Reggie
and were connected with volcanic aC
tivity in Mount Etna.
Premier Crispl has sent funds to tn
projects of the provinces to supply tn
: emost urgent needs of the distressed in
habltants.