The evening world., 1908-12-30

KING ANDQUEEN or
cities still without medical attention The facilities for proper care
in the cities that did not suffer are inadequate.
The devastated districts still filled with hall denented survivors
who cannot get away They are naked ana starving and wander ami
lessy under the ncement The ruins still burning
News from the outlying districts Cabr 10 the sfe that the
survivors mad with terror and have fled to the toeAd noun
slopes where they >ul>Sng and The bark OF trees
Every possible thing being done TO forward the work of relief
but trains with supplies matted long before they can reach the scene
The railroads have been put operation and in many cases trans
portation by rail is impossible.
With King Victor Emmanuel AMI number of Government officials
MeSsn the The earthquake facts are oeinS gathered
that give idea the awful hvo> wrought by the great upheav
and the tidal ami fire that followed.
So appalling is the disaster the story revealed that difficult
to grasp its real horror Th-v towns and villages have been wiped
and Messna and Reggie like ponpe their utter destruction
Utter deSoaion marks of 4oO square miles and death
HEROIC WORK BY KING AND QUEEN
King Victor Emmanuel and his wife Queen Helena arrived At Mes
sna to-day board the hateshp Victoria and Emmanuel They
disemtaked and made their into the ruined city
that the King and Queen had crowds of the
stricken victims sWanned around the royal party prostrans themselves
in the mud and crying aloud pity This reception
Her Majesty who almost tainted
Many terrible stories told to the Ming connection with the
of The have had 10 contend with the deeprood
superstition the Shan mind In many injured men and women
chung the cubng walls refusing to let their hold and seek
position The King however, lost little time in listening recital
difficulties He Immediately Joined rescue party aid abored nre
mngy the others He personally exrtated several injured persons
pinned in the ruins This was his first ACT.
Queen quickly recovered from fannesS by ken
inc sights on all sides example her husband She
rescued with her hands little boy three years old bleeding from
many wounds and herself carried him the dock she
handed him members the hospital corps the dock were
many small boats take the wounded the ships the
! habor.
RUSHING RELIEF WORK.
Measures relief being rapidly pushed forward and national
fund been started headed by Ming Emmanuel with $4,000
Generous contributions being foreigners pierpon
Morgan of New York. having cabed $4,000 Pope Plus begun
distribution OF church funds i'll lavish manner different points the
stricken district
Ambassador to-day communicated the Govern
offer assistance the American Red Cross This profe
created good impression and greatly appreciated
dence of American sympathy.
No trace has been toHni of American Consul Cheney and his wife
, who thought have death the destruction Mesn
The whole Of Italy absolutely stunned and the of the
disaster the bulk the people literally Ienen,ed the sudden
and the blow
concerning stricken Messina become available they
eorohorate every detail tie heretofore expressed The
cathedral municipality buildings lie barracks and the prisons all de-
stroyed and presumably Ill the smaller buildings shared The
OF $50 railway empo the station MeSSina only eight known
10 have survived while appalling silence Reggie where the silence
death still TeignS, leave, the imagination the terrible wrought by
the catastrophe with The horrible thrush the swallowing up
OF boats the crushing ships and the destruction Of bridges walls
MESSINA Still IN PLANES.
The Premier has received telegram Sgnor telte Deputy
at Messina, summing up til situation as follows:
"Mena completely destroyed and RACED ground The VIC
Tins may he numbered by thousands Th- conagraion which
still raging is completing the destruction The city Salvage nre-
rcmcn and soldiers Immediately The disaster eX.
CeedS the widest imagination
The volcano Srombo active the seas around the island are
very agiaed and dangerous navigation
cute the world ,u,
of ifc will reach
sailor. and sold or. ,,,.
doEe'd fought tie advancing flame.