Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1906-04-10
PEOPLE SEEMED INSANE
IhN Surrounded the Market, in Many
Cases Tearing Their Hair, CuTS-
iDg and Screaming.
aENES WERE HEARTRENDlNG
Evan the ResCuers Were
Heard to Sob.
HvfRISH EAGERNESS TO SAVE LIFE
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,uociated Press Dispatches oy Special Wires.
Naples. Italy, April 10.-Noon-Naple
,ary this morning had returned to her
sonsl self The day was brilliant, the
IN cloudless. the waters of the Medi-
is,anean were blue and unrippled, in
raee of the melancholy grayness OF the
bt few days, and, better still, the menac-
ng column of smoke from Mt Nesuvius
lad almost disappeared and, though the
msller craters still gave forth smoke, the
vind had turned it in another direction
and an air OF peace and springtime had
nrpsd over Naples and its vicinity. But
his scene of quiet was turned into mourn
irg later. when the news Of the collapse
nj the roof of the Market Monte Ohveto
and the loss OF life became known. The
people who gathered about the market
were soon in a state of great excitement,
which increased when the recovery OF the
bodies commenced.
Just previous TO this disaster religious
proce.sions had been passing through
me streets Of the city, the people desiring
10 render thanks to the Almighty for
having apparently averted much greater
disasters than those hitherto recorded
here Here and there these professions
vended their way, with images OF the
Madonna or saints. dressed in most gor-
geous robes Of cheap blue or yellow satin,
borne above the seas Of dark heads, mostly
those Of women, walking arm in arm and
chanting o., they moved along the main
thooughiares, individuals stopping now
and then to exchange jokes with passers
hy These motley, but picturesque. pro-
ce,sion, we're headed by numbers OF boys.
walking two and two and carrying lighted
candles. which fickered family in the
bright sunshine Only in a few cases did
priests accompany the professions which
IN the main seemed to be local and spon-
gne0us affairs. organized on the moment
% various districts The news of the
market disaster changed this brilliant
scene TO one Of great gloom and the pro-
ce.sions quickly disbanded.
After the collapse of the market roof
he people seemed demented. They
surrounded the market. in many cases
tanng their hair, cursing and or am ing
"Oh. my husband l. there, or Bring
ont my child. and endeavoring, with
their own hands. TO move heavy beams,
from beneath which the groans Of the in
lured we're issuing. The cries for help
we're so heartrending that even resclers
we're heard to sob as they worked with
iNeHsh eagerness to save life or extract
he bodies of the dead from the ruins
Such was the anxiety OF the people to
take part in the work Of rescue that 1t
required determined efforts on the part
| Of the large force of police and carbineer.
70 keep the most desperate from moving
beam, too precipitately and thereby
causing further deaths or injuries Som'
OF the people about the market wer
heard to eXclaim that a curse rested upoi
the people of Naples for repudiating thei
saints yesterday, when Mt Nesuvius wa
n ms most violent mood.
DUKE or AosTA AIDS REsCUERs.
l215 p. m.-The Duke of Aosta durin
the morning, in order to encourage th
people, tried to visit the villages burie
" partly buried under the ashes from th
Volcano, but it was impossible to procee
na motor car or on foot, so he tried horst
back and, by making strenuous effort
succeeded in directing the work Of rescu
and saving several people who were at tl
pOint of death.