Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-29
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A Communication Interrupted.

TO Utal'S ltHillll dilu y.9,eittssti 49,
MES the cable dispatches from their
native land today bring tidings OF sor-
s5 row. and 10 the swarthy Latins the Gay
"a one that Will be marked in their
memories. l is rare that one OF ltais
Il dusky sons comes to this country VIII VIII
outSleaVing behind him perhaps q WIG
ana 4 happy little family of children,
\ ,Ise,lr,otl1e1: a sister or u sweetheart.
I Today is one when all is unceItalntS
for them, Thay know not Wnelhsr
the,r loved ones in their faT-aWay
country are safe from harm OF s Mept
{ INTO the sea or, worse Still eausht ~
the flames that have followed the e ear
uIake. Many of them are strangers
l1ere. Many do not speak the Language,
Or know the ways or this.eo .Ii4,s,si
file blight Of these is most pititui.
sitting at noon today in his little con
!; HERS shop in south Maint street Was
Alfonso Bruni, a native of the town OF
Reggio. The last letter he had irot, ron,
his oIdghume told HIM that a wire ai'I
four little children were happy any
well--aIid today he does not KNOW, a
brother. Salvatore Bruni, IS cancellnete
!. deI lTribunole Reggio a position high IN
state service in the province of GAIA
n t,rta sin this country he would be known
Il, MAYOR He too, had q large
family and the Bruni family in the en- en-,
r tira.n.ovince was a large one and rated
"a high iii the communities of the prstts
italian farming country. q esteto, ~,
perhaps, they We're all well ana s s...
tinIebrating the Christmas holiday,
which is prolonged among the Italians
and Sicilians until the new year Is well
on its way Today they may All pc
Head Bruni does not know and ne rs
helpless; he cannot reach them by ca
q bio, for all the lines have been de-
stroyea
50 FAR FROM his HOME.
II Br,,ni sut; today over his last. He
had been lmending q little girls snoe.
but he had stopped short. Before MN
lay the morning papers. ne n i,lsl
bought them all to learn more of tile
horror which had swept his home cou lllls
try. He said he had read them over
many time, and that every time ny !, !,
saw the name of he old home ne cou. u
read no further. ne had trlea.la. W. ~
to find a word in the dispatches tina,
would tell him that his little wife al ~
the sweet children were SAFE.
81 am so far away and there Is no y
5telephone. i have one here and all !
can talk is to some of my friends here.
but not to the little girls at home, 4es-
terday they We're playing VIII, WIN toss
UT. y, II tbe, tine, Rltlni's &Noien was
n, e,,,,t II an,,,d ,dly he heard. He
,,il'il ~, ~ II work. hrt he could aG-
49,, ,,;;,I, 2,,,f hi,,s, He looked at the
,;tt,, '.,l,..s ~ tafi IN Ills last and he
.J.hI,,,: = ,yish tb.,t his little girl was
8 ,s;t,, M, AMI mat III was her shoe
II IA n. 4 ( hsrn,f, him Tlc was working
Y H. H. snvn enough money to bring
baTt u, live with him.
II. ,aa "a ,isd almost enough, and now
e y syas too late.
4 II. ~ L. Sthe7 hest ~ Italy In
4 I1,itad stntes we have the California;
i,I,.,i, r. L l,,labria-where the skies
s ~. ,,i;,yS,vs l,I,,e EVERYTHING a man
tS.ra ri is warm and
Z Y ~ ~ g s,,sasts nJnyhc n
~. go ss,, * a. without trol1-s
q Z w Nv - : ~ 80 y = ~
AN a T,5,hT,IA IN. fTRIJ,rtI.
:. ~ .a ~, darl
o. s,'ltll TIC shore each
eSeu women ~ LIZ, H. ,,ats
evening for the men !, WIT ". s,1
70 come nome jolly tiitet ? y eito
u singing as tlieS NyotI my, n.liots ,.a,.,,
yards, among me leitile s,osas ~,
olives grew ana ltl5lile !oWitlnus Mt.o,9
q the Mess1na lemons yleiu II go
Z bounty#to the ltallan afporeI. - -
the best of Italy until touay, nc ~
+ peated many times while he was te'l
q ing OF his younger days spent IN reg
gio. He told OF many pleasure 4excur-
siDns he had taken across the channel
2 to NIessina, Scalleto and Galati. IL
- 70 :. ,,.ts,t ,,,hara tniliFis