The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-12-31
SECOND QUAKE
HITS MESSINA
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the pier to embark on the regular
steamer for Naples were killed. The
volcano Stromboli is active and the
seas around the island are agitated and
dangerous to navigation.
DAY IN WOE STRICKEN ITALY.
Naples Dec. 3O.-One hundreds thou
sand are dead in the city of Messina
alone.
Probably less than 10000 human be-
ings escaped alive from the earth
quake, fire and tidal wave that de-
vastated Sicily and Calabria.
Reggie di Calabria, which the king is
visiting tonight, has been mostly swal-
lowed UP in an immense assure, and
the remainder of the town is in ruins.
FIFTY THOUSAND DEAD IN REGGIE.
Major Pelligone, in command of the
troops there states that his men al
ready have extricated 800 bodies. He
estimates the dead at Reggie at about
sc, 600
If the estimates of 100000 dead at
Messina is correct and $4,000 dead at
Reggio the final count will go far over
$50, 600.
This information is brought here by
refugees, who come by hundreds on
warships and merchant vessels that
hasten back to the work of relief.
And while the wires and ships were
bringing news of the death of men by
the hundred thousand, a baby was born
on the German steamer Therapie as
it neared this port with hundreds Of
wounded refugees aboard.
OTHER TOWN SHAKEN.
There were further earth shocks at
Messina during the night of Tuesday.
which added to the panic of the sur
vivors.
Violent earth shocks were expert
enced at Syracuse at $3.50 this morn
ing. The people of Syracuse, terrified
and fearful. rushed through the streets
in the surrounding open country.
Two violent shocks were felt on the
island of Ustica last night. Ustica
is forty miles off the north coast of
Sicily.
The inhabitants of the island spent
the night shivering in terror in the
fields.
HOUSES FALL INTO FISSURE.
According to other refugees not a
single hotel remained standing. A fis-
sure sixty feet deep opened near the
church of Santa Maria and houses fell
bodily into it
The Therapia brought thirty German
and 500 other fugitives. During the
voyage to Naples several injured wo-
men died and one child was born.
A physician named Condo, a native
of Messina, said he escaped by climb
! ing over the fallen roofs. Houses van
ished with the suddenness of dream.
and daylight showed nearly two miles
of ruins.
Steamers put out to cross the straits
| for help after the first shock of the
earthquake, but half way over they met
vessels from the opposite coast. which
carried the news that Reggie, too, had
berished.
Some of the fugitives aboard the
Therapia hastily left the ship when Il
reached this port. in some cases aban-
doning their children, in cases abandon
ing their children. Ten more steamers
with fugitives are expected to arrive
here within the next day or two and
every effort is being made to prepare
shelter for them.
Naples is the center of the relief or
ganization and all social functions have
been postponed.
The few refugees that have arrived
here from Calabria are almost too un-
nerved to speak of their terrible ex-
periences.
WHOLE NATION IS STUNNED.
Rome. Dec. 30-The whole nation i:
stunned by the enormity of the catas
trophe 1t has experienced. and even ye
the vastness of the disaster is not real
lied. Previous estimates of zoo, 900 deas
are now considered conservative. New
problems of the most grave sort ar,
confronting the nation as results of tn,
earthquake, tidal wave and Ares.
Great hordes of fugitives from thu
ruined cities are invading them ant
swapping the relief forces. Thousand
are wandering demented over hills an,
plains many entirely nude, all starv
ing and many seriously ILL.,
Flame is still ut work in the ruins o
cities destroyed by the quake. and tn
countless bodies in the debris alread,
promise pestilence.
Relief work is under way on vas
scale, but it is pitifully inadequate. AM
1t will be days before a semblance 0
order is restored.
ITALY STANDS APPALLED,.
: Rome, Dec. s0--The irRmensity of tn