The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1905-09-15
ITALY EARTHQUAKE NELSON SCHAMPION
THOUSANDS OF LIVES LOST and
eighteen TOWNS RUINED.
Worst Ever Experienced-Over 1000
Persons Killed and Great Number
Injured-Shock Lasted 10 Seconds
Terror Was IndescribabIe-
Hurried to Scene.

Rome, Sept. 1O.-All Italy is suffer
ing from terrible depression because OF
the news from the south, where one OF
the worst earthquakes ever expert
enced occurred. Although the earth
quake was felt over Calabria and to a
certain extent in Sicily, the worst news
comes from PizzO and MOnteleOne and
from Is villages, which are said to
have been completely destroyed.
The shock was felt at 2:55 o'clock
this morning. 1t lasted for IS seconds
at Catanzaro and soon thereafter was
felt at Messina, Reggie, MonteleOne,
MartiranO, StefacOmi, PiscOpiO, Ira
PAM, Zammaro, Cessani, Nadia, Olivadi
and other points.
Scenes of indescribable terror en-
sued. Women aroused from their
sleep rushed half clothed into the
streets screaming with fear, carrying
their babies and dragging along their
other children and calling for help on
the Madonna and the saints. The men
escaped into the open with their fami-
lies, all calling on their favorite saints
for protection.
The general confusion was added to
by dreadful cries from the jails, where
the prisoners were beside themselves
MED, but fortunately all the prisoners
were kept within bounds.
Troops, engineers anu doctors have
been hurried to the scenes of disaster
to assist in the work of rescue and
salvage.
Troops have been dispatched to the
scenes of the disasters and engineers
have been sent to Martirano, Nadia,
Glmigliano and Monteleone di Gala
bria.
Later Reports.
The effects of the earthquake were
more disastrous than at first reported.
Dispatches from the south give in
creasing lists of dead and injured, the
numbers now running into the thou
sands. Martirano alone shows 1000
casualties, and at Lapolio 200. In
some cases whole families have been
wiped out. The greatest agitation con-
tinues among ,ne populace, Slight
shocks are felt occasionally, and sub
terranean rumblings are still heard.
Those persons still possessing homes
refuse to enter them
The worst is now considered to be
over. Those left destitute are begin
ming to feel the pangs of hunger, and
there is also much suffering by those
insufficiently clad. Succor is pouring
in from all quarters, but the restitution
is SO widespread that it is impossible
to supply all the needs of the people.
In addition to the gift of $4,000 by
King Victor Emmanuel and ministerial
subsidies, newspapers in every part Of
Italy have opened subscriptions. Pub
lie sympathy has been aroused in an
exceptional degree, and everybody re-
CARDS the event as an awful calamity.
Officers and private citizens in the af-
fected provinces and throughout the
kingdom are Fastening to assist in the
work of rescue, and are displaying al
most superhuman energy in these ef-
forts.
Official figures OF victims Of the
earthquake in the province of Catan-
FARO show that $50 dead have already
been found, that about 1000 were in
jured, and that there are an enormous
number of persons without shelter.
At Messina, Sicily, the walls of many
houses and churches were cracked by
the earthquakes and otherwise were
more or less seriously damaged.