The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-31
LATE NEWS ADDS
 TO QUAKE HORROR
trentisned from Paxs One,

hnusted. They seemed scarcely con scious of their surroundings. Most of them were held in the thrall of their terrible experiences
 One old man was carrying a little girl in his arms. The child was cover ed with blood.
 'Is that your chfld," he was asked.
 'No. he replied. "Yesterday found her on the pavement in Messina- II picked her up and cared for her. No one claimed her and coulf not sban- don her. I have had her in my arms ever since"
 With this touching explanation Che old man became obiivfous to his q,res- tioner and everything around him.
 The serapin brought into this port records of numberless tragedies. Families separated. mothers moaning and crying for their dead children, husbands and wives lost to earh other or sole survivor wishing that he had not been spared.
 There was one girl on board the steamer, her clothing tattsred and torn. who had saved canary bird She was music hall singer.
 The stories told by these refugees are almost unbelievable. 4 soldier named Emilio De Castro. related that on Sunday. the day before the disaster he was taken sick and was sent to the
 
 morning he was awakened by tremen doua roaring sound. He felt himself failing and thought he was in the drop Of a aanightmare. He thought he had awakened in hell for the air was full of terrifying shrieks. He soon real ixed. however. what was nappeninR. His bed struck the floor below and he , was stiil on it. It paused moment and was again precipitated He struck the next floor. but this gave way at once and thus man and bed came down from the fifth floor of the hospital to the ground The soldier was not inc jured
 Nsxperaence On a Ksoas. A druggist named Pulco relates that at twenty-five minutes past five Mon day morning he was on a. ferry boat in the port of Messina going to Reg gio. Suddenly a gale of wind arose bringing a heavy sea with iI Then water and the boat went down and struck the bottom. But the waters closed in again and the ferry boat floated safely on the top of the sue ceedinK wave Most of the people on board, however. were swept off and drowne1
 The hnat was badly wrecked, but it fleatsd ashore and PuIco was stili on
 After the first panic he landed ana found Reggio like city of the dead. Nobody was moving in the streets and the silence was broken only by the means and groans and shrieks of the wounded. Pulco and several com pauaona tried Co extricate some of the wounded from the wrecxage. but this was almost impossible because of the crumbiing ruins. In one of the squares Pulco found d group of people all com plsteiy naked. The druggist estimates the death roll at Reggie at 10000.
 Another refugee declares that there are alive in Messina today not more than 10000 people. Many of these are dying of hunger. The people still in the city have broken open the restau- rants and food supply shops and are feeding Themselves as they may. The Duke of Aosta left here this morning on . torpedo boat for Messtna and .Reggio.
 Thousands of sicilians and Gala bFIans are in Naples today from the north seeking means of communities ton 10 the south by which to get news Of friends and relatives.
 The Russian cruiser Admiral Malxa- noff came in here today from Messina with 400 injured on board and the steamer Therapie likewise has brought hundreds of survivors.
 Hundreds of Sicilians who had come Z over to the continent for Christmas in- ssvaded the piers to learn if their loved ones were among the people on board. Others were searching vainly for way to get down to Messina.
 Damame By Tidal wave.
 While the destruction of Mesaina and RaEgio was due primarily to the earth quake the tidal wave caused enor- mous damage. Iu the narrow strait the water formed into a huge wave forty feet high. Tt then drew back from inc coast as though gathering gtrenwth for an onslaught that would obliterate the land. So violent was the emotion of the atmosphere coincf- den4 with the tidal wave that several worixmen- engaged in digging a pit on the caiabrian side of the strait were carried bodily up into the air.
 Suddenly stopping in their backward s7xeeD. the waters of the strait turned and hurled themselves upon the two coasts. Tnexorably they advanced and rfers. houses and gardens were swal- lowed m in the flood At some places r,n inc coast Of Sicily, the waters swept ovey the earth for a distance of sten miies. The ground for a great dis- tance trembled under the shock Of tee impact avye-inspfring spectacle described 1t In 1..ft seems as though mountains. one oe vvafer and the other of land, fell f,artousiy. the one towards the otner and as though the land vomited hTs,,an habitations into the sea"
 Nine thousand tents. each capanie of housing six persons and 20.O00 par of blankets, have been. shipped rom here to Sicily and Calabria.
 The sea front at Regsio has been completely swept away. according to atatenaents of refugees
 The harbor is filled with wreckage from vessels of every kind and 1t is impossible to approach Reggie by sea or land. the city roads. bridges and foot paths a have been destroyed. Even the face of inc country has been changed. It Is befIeved that there are still a great number of people in the ruins. dying. not from their injuries, but of slow starvation, simply because 1t Is inlpos- sibIe to get in supplies.
 Several Ca1abrians here who have relatives and friends in the stricken district, who could neither go to their homes nor get news of their loved ones, have become insane.
 SiekenfnE Sight Presented.
 The wounded refugees pressnt sick enings sight. Some appear hardly hu- man. others among the fugitives have no apparent injuries. but are in de- ,,Iorahle mental condition.