The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-31

The ruins formed hillocks thirty feet high, uzaSr which thousands of persons were buried. The. steamer was soon loaded 10 It's utmost capacity with sur vivors and, then steamed 10 Naples. All along the way it was seen that the smaller villages on the Calaorlan coast had disappeared Both scyiia 4ne charybdis had vanished with them Tne Duchess of Aosta was indefatig. able in her ministrations, goins rom steamer 10 steamer and bringing 10 tns sufferers a word of comfort
 Herolsm ef Russfans.
 The comma nder of the Russian bat tleship MRkharoff, who brought word of the American Consul's death. described the fearful scenes at Messina, He de- clared that many of the residents had been buried. as groans we're heard corn- ing from far down in the tissues of the earth. which could only be approached with the greatest Drecaution. The an- guished cries of the victims caused a half frenzy among the sailors, who, in several cases. excayated under dangeR- ous places and rescued wounded .peo- l pie. In other cases they reached dead bodies that sepqrated in parts when ef- 1 forts were made to,draK them from the wreckage.
 For an entire day the Russian sailors divided into squads and gave assistance wherever needed.
 Amid the ruins of the Bank of sicily, they found safe containing many mil Hons. and delivered 1t aboard the war ship. From one house alone fhey res cued'ten persons alive.
 The proprietor of the Hotel Trini- caria was the only one in the building to escape when 1t collapsed. All the guests, he says, were crushed to death. He and other refugees in the Makharoff were warm in their praise ok the hero. ism of a Russian boy who searched for twentyfonr hours until he succeeded In finding the body of his dead sister and rescuing his father. who was se- rfously injured.
 Tells of the Disister. The steamer Therapie Is lying of Ma pies. crowded with refugees from Mes sina, bereaved men. starving women and weeping children, all with the stamp of great fear still upon their faces
 One Of the refugees. man employed with . German cotton firm in the lost city, said:
 'Messina is utterly destroyed. Moth ing remained when I left but part of the citadel. A few soldiers are the lone survivors of the whole sarrison.
 The prison was destroyed, and the wardens killed, but the most of the convicts escaped. They prow1ed about the ruins, robbing and murdering. They cut or the fingers of the dead ! to get the rings. Some or them were singing sengs of liberty as they placed the knife.
 A Russian vessel lying in the har- hcr was thrown into the street by the tidal wave. Other vessels foundered Railway lines were swallowed up. The square known as the Campo Santo col Iapsed and sank" o
 The Therapie brought thirty. Ger man and 500 other. fugitives. During the voyage to Naples, several Injured women died and one child was born. Some of the fugitives aboard the Therapie hastily left the ship when she reached this port, in some cases aband- oning their children.
 Naples is the center of all relief and all society functions have been post poned. The few refugees that have ar- rived here from Caiabria are almost too unnerved to speak of their terrible ex- periences.
 One states that an express train. on the road from Reggie to Naples was brought to a stop by the shock when about eighteen miles along the road on It's way. The passengers demanded that they be taken back to Reggie, where | they found q scene of desoIation. While searching for friends, fresh shociSs oc- cured and practically all the passen- gers were killed.
 Admiral MirabelIo. the Minister of Marine. left here tonight for Messina. The Stricken Territory. Naples, Dec 30-Time only confirms the unspealxable horrors of the oyeF- towering catastrophe. History perhapR never will divulge its supre1nest indi- vidual tragedieg. for earth, and sea ruthIessly ciatmed thousands of human beings and the flames merciiessiy com pleted the unfinished devastation.
 Naples, vibrant with the memory Of Vesuvius, is prostrated anew at the misery and woe from Messina conhded to her care. The hotels and home are crowded with refugees and the people are vieing with one another in aiding the stricken.
 Those who have. explicit knowledge on the subject all agree that the center of the catsclysm was the Strait of Mes sina, which also is the center of the vol canic zone. whose highest peak. Etna, Is now silent. From this base. the tel luric disturbance extended. abating lit- I tie by little northerly as far as Cape Vaticano and southerly as. far as the ! Bay of Catania. in the western region of CaIabria and the eastern coast of | Sicily for distance of nearly f00 miles. It is impossible accurately to ascer- tain the extent of the movement east and west in the inland regions. but 1t Is l certain that the beauty of one of the most charming sections of Southern Italy has been irrevocably despoiied. Vineyards are no more; waving rows of lemon orange and olive trees have been torn up and che enchanting coast line. with its soft and fragrant foliage. has been made into desert Reggio. whose aspect set off the severity of the mountains 4nd Palmi. perched Jauntiiy amid orange and olive trees. have be- come mere blots on the horizon. | STREETS TRANSFORMED l INTO CHANNEL SCENES. catania, Dec. Se.-one of the Mes
 sina survivors says that only small
 proportion of the total population es-
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 Thousands of persons are stili buried alive in the ruins where they are suf- fering slow death by torture. The flames are still making their way giowIy over the devastated area In an memorable advance. Imprisoned and pinioned human beings, unable to ex- trfcate themselves are being burned alive, others are dying of their inju- rfes. while many are starving The
 streets are filled with confused masses of brick and mortar, beams, furniture I chimneys and roofs.
 Tn many cases the streets appear as
 enormous crevasses twisted into fam