New-York tribune., 1908-12-31
ALL DEAD IN BAGNARA.
Ten Thousand LiUes Reported Lost
There-Seminar0 Suffers.

Ca+anzaro CaIabria Dec. 30.-A report re-
ceived here early this morning says that the
town Of Bagnara, on the coast, to the north Of
Reggie. has been completely wiped out FIRE
completed the work of destruction. The report
says that all the inhabitants of Bagnara are
dead" The town counted about ten thousand
people 4 cross has been planted in the midst
of the devastation. In few days lime will be
scattered over the heap Of ruins which mark the
site of a populous town.
No direct news has been here received from
Reggie. the city Of fifty thousand people on the
Calabrian side of the Strait Of Messina, but
everything goes to confirm the previous report
that the city has been obliterated. A laconic
telegram from some telegraph operator in the
zone of which Reggie was the centre says:
Reggie has been almost entirely destroyed. The
! local director of telegraphs and the operators
| are dead Messna and Reggie look like Pom
! peii.'
The prefect Of Reggie, Sfgnor Orso. who was
| thought to have been killed. has reached a coast
point in safety after twenty-four hours of fear
! fuI experience. The man could hardly talk, but
was able to say that Reggie had been almost
! entirely devastated that the dead ran into the
thousands and that the surrounding villages also
! had been destroyed.
| The region between Rocella Jonica and eau
| lonia, not far from Reggie, is flooded.
A laborer who escaped from Reggie has
! reached CatanzarO, almost mad with terror. He
| says that shortly before daybreak a deafening
| noise like the roaring of a hundred cannon was
| heard This was followed by the subsistence of
! the entire lower portion Of the city. At the
same time the sea- with frightful roaring, swept
| over the waterfront. The cathedral, all the
| municipal buildings and the barracks and the
beautiful palaces that lined the Corso. the fash
| ionable thoroughfare Of the City. are now heaps
| Of ruins.
The Mayor of Seminara. in the Province Of
| Calabria telegraphs that his town has been
practically destroyed. Seminara had 1000 in
| habitants The survivors, under the leadership
/ Of the Mayor. devoted themselves to rescue
work, Up TO the time of reporting they had un-
earthed one hundred bodies.
| Reports from Pizzo. thirty miles west of here
| say that the death list in villages surrounding
| Pizzo reaches 1925. Many wounded persons are
stil under the wreckage The number of those
who sustained injuries cannot vet be estimated.
| The survivors camping in the open air.
Most Of them without clothing, and food is
| lacking
| The section around Pizzo experienced another
| earth shock yesterday evening. With the mem
ory Of their previous experiences fresh in their
minds, the people were thrown into state of
extreme panic The remains Of the church in
Pizzo collapsed. A score of persons within the
/ building had a miraculous escape,
It is raining hard. but in spite Of this The en-
tire population persists in living in the open air
! No one ventures to enter house.
A report received here from SAINT Eufemia, q
town of 5000 persons. sixteen miles northeast
| OF Reggie. says that the dead there number
! / O00 and that the total list of wounded is much
greater The houses which not destroyed
are now in flames The survivors have been
unable to extinguish the fires They are beg
gIng for succor, but it IS impossible to send in
supplies because OF the lack Of means Of com
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