Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-04-10
vEsUvIUs AND BAY OF NAPLES.

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vESUvIUS AND BAY OF NAPLES.
err of dust obscures everything like a
fog, and the air is filled with incessant
rumblings and thunderouS explosions
as the mountain belches a steady
stream of lava, cinders and incandes-
cent rock thousands Of feet into the
air.
Almost equally with the devastation
wrought by the lava is the damage
done by cinders and ashes which in in
credible quantities have been carried
great distances. This has caused the
practical destruction of San Giuseppe.
IL village of 5000 inhabitants. All but
200 of the people had fled from the
village. and these assembled in a
church to attend mass. While the
priest was performing mass the roof
fell in. and about sixty persons were
badly injured. The only thing left
standing in the church was Il statue of
st. Anna, the preservation of which
the poor homeless people accepted as
Il miracle and promise of deliverance.
More than $50 persisted in the region
OF San Giuseppe, which has been COM
plctely destroyed. In all the towns and
cities lying close rOund the base or
Nesuvius the utmost terror prevails.
and hundreds of persons have been
buried in the ruins of their homes,
borne down by the weight of ashes. In
this city, fourteen miles from the crest
of the mountain. almost Il foot of ashes
has fallen, and it is almost impossible
to breathe.
Special railway trains. n fleet OF
Italian warships and steamers are EN-
ployed in conveying the homeless peo-
pie from their localities to Naples,
Rome and Castellammare, while large
numbers of the people are fleeing over
land in the direction of Caserta. Not
less than $4,000 refugees have reached
Castellammare.
Lloyd's agency has reported to Lon
don that all work in the port of Naples
has been suspended.
According to information received.
more than 200 have perished in the dis
trict of San Giuseppe. while from the
ruins of a church which collapsed wv
ing to the weight of ashes on the o.
forty-nine corpses were ~eXtricated, and
it is asserted that at San Giuseppe
%thirty-seven persons were killed by
falling houses.
A constant stream of refugees is
pouring into the city by trains, street
cars. steamships and military carts.
The government has been swamped by
,I,1 thousands, u-hn have nnnlio1 FOR,
relief. Many are starving.
The conditions at Tore del Annun-
ziata and Pompeii have improved, ow-
ing to the change in the direction taken
by the flowing lava.
The town of Nola. an old place of To-
000 inhabitants. twenty-five miles from
Naples, is being buried under the
showers of ashes coming from the era
ter which were carried by the wind as
far as the Adriatic sea.
San Giorgio and Tore del Greco are
half buried in ashes and sand, and the
roofs of many houses have fallen in OIL
are collapsing.
About 100000 refugees from Vesuvi-
ana have sought shelter in Naples and
elsewhere. -Four thousand are lodged
i'm the Granile barracks, this city.
King Victor Emmanuel and Queen
Helena and their suits arrived from
Rome and, entering automobiles, visit
ed the towns and villages in the path
of the lava stream pouring down the
sides of Mount Vesuvius. When the
train which brought their maiesties ar
rived at the station the eruption of the
volcano was most violent. But both
the king and queen. although greatly
fatigued. insisted upon leaving imme-
diately for Tore del AnnunZiata, his
majesty remarking:
IF Tore del AnnunZiata ia in danger
it is my duty to he there"
The Duke and Duchess of Aosta and
the Princess of Sleswick- Holstein. who
is a guest Of the Duke and Duchess
of Aosta, soon afterward joined the
king and queen in their visit to the af-
ficted districts. The royal party was
received with the most touching mani
festations of gratitude amid cheers and
weeping expressions NJ thanks and
frantic g~esticulations ON joy. The king
forbade the police and| carbineers to
keep the people away FROM him, so that
all could approach him, The women