The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-10-28
LOST IN TIE l'BIACQMBS
TWO STUDENTS HPARATED FROM
THEIR GUIDES CAUSE GREAT
ANXIETY
IMMIGRATION FROM ITALY
Authorities There HIVE Become In
terested, and Are Taking Steps to
Give Them Assistance ON
Leaving Home.


terested, and Are Taking Steps to
Give Thema Assistance ON
LeaviRg Home.
An episode. which might have had
more fatal results marked the close of
the international Congress of university
students, which ended It's sessions Satur-
day, Sept. Sth, with "a TIE Deum and
solemn benediction Impaired in the
church of st. Ignatius, by the Cardinal
Vicar of Rome, writes the Rome, Italy
correspondent of the Brooklyn Eagle. On
the previous Tuesday, party of Ger
man students, numbering some 200, under
hosplce, erudite in Christian archaeology,
visited, about $50 p. M, the Catacomos
OF st. Domatilla, on Via Ardeat tina, out
side OF the Gate of ST. Sebastian. They
were accompanied by the learned in
spector of the catacombs and by several
practiced guides, who duly warned the
young men of the danger incurred IN
separating from the main group. The
interesting excursion terminated toward
r. M, and the party, issuing from the
catacombs visited some of the neighbor-
Ing wine shops, precaution always OBJ
served after considerable time passed
IN the very bowels Of the earth. On
calling the rolls it was discovered tnat
two students of the University of Eich-
stadt, in Bavaria-George Loughney and
Henry fHengell, both Americans-neither
answered to their names nor could be
found after rigorous search in the shops
Of the er1virons; consequently, a fear
arose that the young men, needless Of
the strict injunctions received, must have
wandered away from their companions
and becomes lost amid the intricate
hghtless mazes of the cemeterial labyr-
NTH they had been so recently exploring.
They forthwith returned to the cata-
combs to make every possible research,
but after several hours of fruitless shout
ing, exploration on every side, and clam
or Of all kind, answered but by echoes
from the damp, ancient vaults, further
search was temporarily suspended, in the
hope that those students sent to the city
to bear tidings of the disaster to their
lodgings at the German College, might
find the two wanderers quietly housed
therein, having made their way thither
direct from the catacombs; but at 1890
p NJ the messengers returned from
Rome with the Sad assurance that,
nanught having beensseen of the
TWO STUDENTS MISSING
They must undoubtedly be still in the
depths of the cataeombs, and many re-
called shudderingly~to snlind the memoirs
of the German poAt Grill parcel, who re-
lates that about 1915, if memory serve,
a camerata, or band of seminarians,
either of English of German nationality,
visiting the catacombs without regular
guide, became lost ms their labyrtnths
and were never again heard Of, all search
for them proving vain OF late years this
tale is generally classed as a myth, and
since 1866 has been expunged from the
pages of the most reliable guide books.
Be that as it may. at II p. M, search
for the missing students was resumed
under the careful direction of Signor
Bevignani, the able inspector of Christian
cemeteries, for whom the most Intricate
Windings of the atacombs-Which, over
sixty In number, spread, 1T is asserted,
like very networks beneath the entire
city of Rome-contain no mysteries. Re-
search continued without result until
after 3 a. M, when. as all were losing
heart suddenly, In the vicinity OF the
+ crypt known as the ''aposteh grandii
one of the most. distant from the en-
trance to the catacombsrs came a. faint
far away Shouts and the guides, shur-
-rying in the direction of the welcome
sound, quickly discerned the figures of
the two missing students standing sIne-
tionless beneath the ''lucernarfum Of
the crypt itself. 1t is needless to portray
the joy wherewith the two rescued ones
greeted &tlaeia1 deliverersss by whom they
were forthwith guided to .y.sthe light of
the stars" where they were embraced by
their colleagues. and Immediately con-
veyed in a carriage to their temporary
home In the German college, and after
| due care and good nights rest Were
fully able to take part in the papal audi
ence of Sept. 6 inst, as above chron-
icled.
TOLD THEIR STORY.
They related to, their wondering fell
low students that at a sudden turn in
the corridor they became separated from
the main body and found themselves in
a lateral path, and when DESTROYS to re-
Join their comrades discovered them
selves to have lost all trace of them,
having unconsciously descended to a
lower story and wandered through the
intricate galleries for more than two
hours Meanwhile their small stock of
tapers being exhausted, they had re
course to matches, which likewise soon
failed them and they were forced to
grope along in utter darkness until, fol-
Loving distant gfimmeF of light they
found their way into a crypt, through
the '1ucernarium' whereof filtered the
last CLEANS OF departing hay. and wisely
determined to await. herein the return of
morn ere reSum1ng th9lP hitherto fruitleSS
attempts to discover means Of exit and
not without the secret hope that their
companions, perceiving their absence,
might make thorough search for them
"a persuasion which greatly contributed
to allay their dismay in finding the IT.
selves alone In The mysterious ohscurity
of those secular mortuary galleries.
Furthermore, mindful Of the mythologic
fable of Ariadne, they had resolved,
scarcely did daybrcak feebly pierce
through the "lueeraasium.' TO unraveI
their stockings aud. uniting together the
threads, foral thence lengthy fla1nent
to serve to guide them to some way of
esress from tie labyrinth Happily. their
rescue was at hand.
EMIGRATION FROM ITALY.
Since the publication toward the close
of 1882 in the bulletin of the ministry
for foreign affairs of the Kingdom of
Italy, of the official report of CheyaIier
Egfsto Rossi, chief agent at the port of
New York, for the protectorate Of Ital-
ian immigrants, on Italian emigration
to the United States during lS9s-s9.
whence it results In that dual term
the number of emigrants from Italv
amounted to &c, 4S9. as compared to S.
GIL during the years 1S97-9S, of whom
53,546 were males and 23,943 females. be-