Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-04-10

Naples, April 10. - Tho weather
suddenly changed this afternoon,
The wind blew strongly tow
srds Naples, and ashes from Mount
vesuvius began falling fast over the
city. Twenty-six more dead bodies
have been found in the church at San
Giuseppe, making total Of seventy
nine.
Naples, April 10.-Terrifying news
- reaching this city from points thru
Nat the district surrounding Ottajano.
Ehe reports indicate that an enormous
area Is buried beneath ashes and cind
~fa. All efforts to ascertain the exact
~upber of victims !. to the eruptions,
have failed. This is accounted for
APem the fact that the buried villages
a1A impossible Of access and because
the people who fled when their houses
began to fall, have scattered thruout
the country district. Forty-nine bodies
have already been taken out of the
church at Ottajano and seventy bodies
were recovered at San Giuseppe and
Tcrzigno.
The scenes at Ottajano when the first
victims were unearthed, were most
terrible. The positions of the bodies
showed that the victims had died
while in a state of great terror, their
faces being convulsed with fear. Three
bodies were found in confessional Of
one Of the fallen churches. Another
body found later caused such an i'm
preston among the already frantic
population, that the authorities did mott
deem it advisable to permit any more
bodies to be identified for the pres
ent. The fate of many children is
unknown. When the military carts ar
rived at the scene of disaster last night
the soldiers arranged to have the chill
dren and aged people get into the
carts, but when the vehicles had gone
q few hundred feet, it was found that
altho there were fewer horses harness
ed to each wagon they could not pull
their loads thru the deep ashes. This
caused panic among the children,
who expected to be buried in the ashes
from the volcano, and they fled in all
directions in the darkness and binding
rain, and have not since been heard of.
Many tales are told Of heroic rescues
on the part of soldiers sent to the as
.sistance Of the sufferers. One man
rode his horse thru ashes reaching up
to its flanks at Ottajano, calling out:
ssWho wants help" He was rewarded
by hearing a woman's voice reply in
weak tones, and springing from his
horse, the soldier called a comrade
to his assistance. and floundered among
the ashes until he arrived at the ruin
ed walls Of a house. He found the
bodies of three children and woman,
barely alive, who by almost superhu-
man efforts lasting for hours had sue
ceeded in freeing herself from the mass
Of debris which had fallen upon her.
The soldier picked the woman up IN
his arms and carried her to place
of safety where it was found that both
her legs were broken, and she was bad
ly crushed about the body. Several
lads in Boscotrocase, who were un-
harmed, when the danger of follow
ing eruptions of Mount Vesuvius SEEM
ed most imminent, subsequently, ven
tured to walk on the cooling lava. They
went too far and the crust broke un-
der their weight. They We're swallow
ed up before the helpless onlookers.
Many school choldren who We're
thought to have fed from school, and
to have become lost on the mountains,
ra saf