Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-09-09
DISTRESS IN The
EARTHQUAKE 5 WAKE
Terrible Scenes Witnessed in
Italian Villages Destroyed
by the Shock
HUNDREDS LOST THEIR LIVES
Government Will be Compelled to Lend
Aid to the Stricken Inhabitants =
Many Are on the Verge Of starva.
tion-Laree Number of Villages Are
Almost Swallowed Up.

Rome, Sept. 9--King Victor En-
manuel has given $4,000 for the relief
of families OF the victims of yester-
days earthquakes.
The railway lines in Calabria are
much damaged and trains much delay
ed. Travellers from Calabria are pro-
foundly impressed with the disaster
and recount and recount seeing villages
reduced to ruins men and women half
clothed weeping and seeking to find
the bodies Of their relatives. All de-
pot from San Giovania to Santa Eu-
xemia are invaded by the populace de-
manding succor. The spectacle Is ter
rifying.
Scenes Of indescribable terror follows
the shock Women, aroused from their
sleep. rushed half-clothed into the
streets, screaming with fear, carrying
their babies and dragging along the.r
other children and calling for help on
the Madonna and the saints The men
escaped into the open with their fam
ilies all calling on their favorite saints
for protection. The cafes were taken
by assault by the strangely garbed
crowd, but as daylight broke without q
repetition of the earthquake the crowd
gradually melted away until by s
o'clock the steets had almost assumed
their normal appearance except In the
ruined villages, where the inhabitants
had not homes to go to- The general
confusion was added to by dreadful
cries from the jails where terrified
prisoners had in some cases mutined,
but fortunately ali the prisoners were
kept within bonds.
In the Cholera District.
Monteleone al Calabria, italy, Sept.
9.--The latest details obtianable con-
cerning the damage caused in this dis
trict by the earthquake show that at
Stefaconi houses have been entirely
destroyed and it is estimated that l0o
persons were killed.
At Piscopio all the houses were de-
stroyed and fifty persons lost their
lives.
At Monteleone many houses We're
destroyed and seven persons were
killed
At San Gregorio. according to the
estimates, sixty-fve persons lost their
lives.
The village of zammaro is destroyed
entirely.
At Mileto eleven are dead and 200
are injured.
At Cessanisi almost all the houses
are destroyed. The number Of dead
and wounded is not known.
The villages of Bratico, Sanfea, San
Costantino and Conidoni are completes
ly destroyed The number of victims
in these places exceeds fifty.
At. Spilniga one person was Killed.
At Santo Nobrio there are numerous
victims.
Almost all the houses in these places
which have not already collapsed
threaten to fall in ruins.
Most OF the villages in Calabria are
small and unimportant. The district
shows an entire lack of cities or inn
portant hamlets. Miserably built groups
of houses, arranged in disorderly array,
composed most of the villages struck
by the earthquake. Even the larger
towns were entirely destitute of any
attraction Of an architectural way.
The smallness of the buildings doubt
less accounts for the escape of many
from death. Squalor reigned in most
of the homes, and most of the strick-
en- districts has for years presented
an entirely miserable appearance.