The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-11
.LOSSS2O, 100000
Fifty Thousand Persons About
Naples Rendered Homeless
By the Continued EruptiOns of
Mount Vesuvius.
RAILROADS STOPPED.
Engineers Refuse to Take Out
Trains Owing to Darkness.
viii Cost Millions to Make Good
Damage Done.


pies, April 11.-2:15 p. m.-The loss
to property by the volcanic outbreak is
estimated at s2O.C o.oOO and 1t is an
nounced that $4,000 persons have been
rendered homeless.
Tore Del Greco, Sarno and San Cen
naro have been evacuated and Portico,
Ciricello Poggio and Morino are prac-
tically uninhabitable. The situation at
Tore Annsuta has somewhat improved
as the current of lava has ceased to
threaten it.
At Tore Del Greco the downfall of
ashes and sand continues. The inhabit-
ants are awaiting steamers to escape
from the danger zone.
San Gennaro is plunged in obscurity.
The majority of the houses have fallen.
F'ugitives arriving in Naples confirm
the previous reports to the effect that
houses at Ottojano continue to fall and
the town and villages in its neighbor-
hood are nothing but ruins.
At San Guizeppe the ashes and sand
are over four feet deep.
Troops are encamped in the public
squares here in readiness to move
quickly to the assistance of endangered
places and patrols with military doctors
are sending assistance to the fugitives.
EruptiOns Increased.
Naples, April 1.-THE eruptions from
Vesuvius increased during the night
and a coating of ashes and cinders to
depth of four inches covered the
ground and the roofs of buildings to-
day. All railroad service out of the
city is interrupted. The engineers have
refused to take out their trains be
cause of the darkness caused by the
heavy fall Of ashes.
So widespread is the catastrophe that
it is estimated it viii require an or
ganized body OF 100,000 men and the
expenditure of many millions of dollars
to raze houses made unsafe for .habita-
tion by the accumulation of ashes and
ctnders on the roofs, erect temporary
1zuts Of refuge 1oH the thousands who
have been obliged to flee from their
homes, clear the roofs of buildings that
may yet be saved and extricate from
the ruins of fallen structures and bury
the dead.
The papers unite today in urging the
government to send here General
Baldissera, who saved the situation af-
ter the crushing defeat of the Italians
at the hands of the Abyssinains at
Adowa, Abyssinia, in the spring of 1886
and instructed him to organize and
control the work of relief.
Prisoners Frightened Into Mutiny.
Naples, April 11.=11:O5 a. m.-The
panic here is increasing. The prisoners
| in the city Jail mutinied owing to fright
/ and succeeded in breaking open some
of the doors inside the building. but
were subdued by the guards. The
/ prisoners, however, are in a state of
1 great excitement, requiring double
guards.
The morning opened with the at
mosphere oppressive and yellow with
ashes from Mount Vesuvius, causing a
feeling of apprehension regarding
what the future may hold in store foI
this city and its vicinity. The volcano
was completely hidden in a dense
mass of cinder laden smoke, the only
other signs of activity being frequent
and very severe detonations and deer
rumbling. From all quarters come re-
ports of the accumulation of ashes
! the fight of the terror stricken in
habitants of towns and villages, the
collapse of buildings, the insuh1ciency
of the relief measures, hunger and dis
couragement. 1t is no longer posi-
BILE to reach the points which have
suffered most severely. Even the sol
dfers detailed to guard the ruins at
/ Ottajano have been recalled and the
town has been left to its fate. The
military forces have earned the graft
tude and admiration of the people by
| their devotion to duty. Not only are
they credited with many acts Of hero