Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-09
HUNDREDS KILLED
BY EARTHQUAKE
PEOPLE OF ITALY STRICKEN
WITH TERROR
PROPERTY LOSS IS HEAVY
II ls Estimated That Three Hundred
and Seventy Persons Lost Their
Lives and Large Number
Were Injured
PROPERTY LOSS is HEAVY
By Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
ROME, Sept. S.-All Italy is suffering
from the terrible depression because ot
the news from the south, where one of
the worst earthquakes ever experienced
occurred today. Although the earth
quake was felt all over Calabria and to
a certain extent in Sicily, the worst
news comes from Pizzo and Monteleone
and from eighteen villages which ara
said to have been completely destroyed.
According to the latest news received
$40 persons have been killed and a great
number injured. 1t is as yet impossible
to even estimate the property losses.
The shock was fNlt at 2:55 o'clock this
morning. 1t lasted for eighteen seconds
at Catanzaro and soon thereafter was
felt at Messina, Reggie, Monteleone.
Martinano, Stefacomi, Piscoppio, Nadia
and Olivadi and other points.
Scenes of indescribable terror ensued.
Women aroused from their sleep rushed
half clothed into the streets, screaming
with fear, carrying their babies and
dragging along other children and CALL
help.
The men escaped into the open with
their families, all calling on their IA
vorite saints for protection. The cafes
were taken by assault by the strangely
garbed crowd, but as daylight broke
without a repetition of the earthquake
the crowd gradually melted away until
by o'clock the streets had almost as
sumed their normal appearance except
in the ruined villages, where the in
habitants had no homes to go to. The
general confusion was added to by
dreadful cries from the jails, where
the prisoners were beside themselves
with fright and in some cases mutinied
but fortunately all the prisoners were
kept within bounds.
Aid for the Victims
Troops, engineers and doctors have
been hurried to the scenes of disaster
to assist in the work of rescue and
salvage. The ministry of the interior
sent $4,000 for the relief of the destitute
and Minister of Public Works Farraris
left for Calabria this evening.
The newspapers this morning give
heart-rending accounts of the terrible
calamity caused by the earthquake.
At Monteleone houses were razed.
The railway depots at Piazzo, Saular
and Enfermicia had to be evacuated as
they were considered unsafe.
At Messina a severe shock was felt,
but it was slighter than that in Gala
bria.
The earthquake centered in Calabria,
destroying over 25 villages, leaving
thousands absolutely destitute. killing
upwards of 400 and wounding nearly
600.
The province of Calabria is noun
famous and is given over almost en-
tirely to agriculture. The people there
are very poor but very industrious.
King Victor Emanuel, who is So
journing at Vallambrasa, as soon as he
learned of the catastrophe, sent $4,000
for the aid of the sufferers and re-
quested the officials to afford every pos
sible aid. Subscriptions for the suffer-
ers have been opened by the news
papers.
The ancient crater on the island Of
Stromboli is again in active eruption,
throwing out lava and stones. and the
population of the island is fleeing.
The magnitude of the earthquake is
even greater than was at first supposed.