Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-04-10
TERROR|zED NATIVES
FLEE FROM VESUV|Us
NJ any Towns Already Destroyed
and Naples Is Filled with
Homeless Refugees.
KING and QUEEN VISIT MOUNTAIN
Action OF the Volcano Diminished For
Short Time but Molten Lava is
Elected With Greater Fury arr.
ASHES Are Now Falling Away to the
Eas. in the Adriatc Sea.
KING AND QUEEN VISIT MOUNTAIN
lBy Ass1ciatnd prn.s

NAPLES, Rprii 9.-Report6 OF Ia
taIties consequent upon the erup.
ton OF Mount Vcsuvius are COMING in.
According to information received late
tonight more than 500 persisted In
in the district of San Giuseppe, while
from the ruins Of a church which
collapsed owing to the weight Of
ashes on the root forty.ninc corpses
were extricatcd, and II is asserted
that at Sorrento, thirty.seyen persons
were killed by falling houses.
The conditions a. Tore AnrIl,xidt;r
aud Ponipeii have impiov owiag to
the chlnge in the direction taken by
the flowing lava.
On the other hand the conditions at
Ottajano are worse. Ashes and Gin
ders have fallen there four feet deep
ADD frequent 'Carthshocks have been
felt. Ton houses aud five churches
have fallen, FIVE persons have been
killed and an unknown number OF per-
CONS wounded.
Town Of $4,000 Persons Threatened.
Serious apprehension was felt for
the inhabitants of the country In the
vicinity OF the town of Caserta, term
ed the Versailles of Naples, a place of
about $4,000 inhabitants. In whose di-
rection the lava is flowing.
rI,ht, t,,,,, AL, ,,., r
10000 Inhabitants, twenty-five miles
flom Naples, is being buried under
the Showers of ashes which ceased
to fall over Naples for time this
morning. But ashes and sand began
falling again later in the day.
When the last train was leaving
Boscotrecase yesterday fresh crater
opened near the observatory station.
An excursion steamer, attempting to
reach Naples from the lnsland of Cap.
ri today had to return as the pas
sengers were being suffocated by the
ashes
Like Lake Of Chocolate.
The quantity of ashes ana cinders
thrown up by Mount Vesuvius with.
in the last twenty-four hours is ui,.
precedented. An analysis showed this
discharge to be composed of iron, sui
phur and magnesia. When dry the
. whole region seemed TO be under a
gray sheet, but now, after a fall of
rain. it. appeared to have been trans.
formed into an immense lake of
chocolate
The evacuation of the threatened
villages and towns continued DURING
the day. but adequate means to trans
port the inhabitants were lacking al
though thousand soldiers with artii
lery carts had been sent to the places
where the sufferers were most In nee
o! assistance
Inhabitants Panic Stricken.
A. many places the people were SUI
ferlng from panic, and state o
great confusion existed. which was
aided to by superstition.
Many of the parish priests refuse,
to open their churches to people VIII;
tried to obtain admittance, fearinE
that an earthquake would destroy the
BIZ ilcings when iull of people ant
thus increase the list of disasters
Crowds of wOme:i thereupon attacket
the churches. pulled down the doors
cid took possession of the picture,
and statues Of the saints which he,
carried about az; q protection eron
death.
Camp Out in the Fields.
Many people camped along the roads
and in the fields outside of Tore, An
nunziata and Ottajano, where the.
thought it would be safer than th,
towns, defying the elements though
nearly blinded by ashes, wet to til,
skin by the rain and terrorized by til,
gigantic curved flaming mass above