Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1908-12-30
WORSE AND WORSE
GROWS HORROR.
Earthquake Is Among Worlds
Greatest Calamities.
MESSINA'S MISERY
TRULY FRIGHTFUL

Disaster One of the Most Dreadful In
italy's History, a Journal at Rome
Estimating Total Casualties at Be.
tween Sixty Thousand and Seventy
Thousand-looting Prevails and
the Scenes Are Terrifyino-pone
and King Make Liberal Donations.
Rome, Dec 29.-The disaster in the
province of Calabria and island of
oicily nave assumed staggering pro-
portions, each successive report re.
celVed from the stricken region makes
IL more apparent that stories of wide.
spread estruction are little If anv ex.
aggerated. Messina alone reports -.
OoO victims, but it is feared this Is
only a partial list of the dead and
wounded. Reports coming in from
other towns are giving estimates of
the dead therein from 500 I'D 70 sew.
eral thousand
hegglo still remains in tragic isola.
tion. II is impossible to get word
from the stricken city and silence
gives rise to the most fearful appre
hension. News has come from Mes.
slna, eight miles north of Reggie bu,
no reliable estimate OF the dead there
has been made.
vandalism OF the worst kind ha,
broken out and the government has
auolted the most energetic and most
severe measures for its repression.
hoDDers and looters are shot on sight.
Inc prison at Messina COLLAPSED
Some OF the prisoners were killed hut
the survivors made their escape ana
joined the hooligans. who are sacking
.ne city. Such confusion reigns that
tne robbers meet with no resistance.
The local chief of police lies dead in
the ruins Of his office. The barracks
al Messina are demolished. The com.
mander of the troops was killed ont.
right and there are many victims
among the enlisted men.
Robbers pillaged the ruins. shattered
buildings and even stole clothing and
valuables from corpses. They were
not terrified by the flames that brooks |
out in several sections of the CITY
but took advantage of the light for
their vandalism. The night at Mes.
sina was one of horror indescribabIe-
flre' robbery. dead and dying on every
size. Inc city is in the utmost con.
FUSION and people are panic stricken. |
Toward morning several of the
worst fires had been extinguished
looting Is under partial control and
comparative order has been estab.
llsbed. Everything possible is being
done to succcr the wounded. but relief
measures are still utterly Inadequate
owing TO the immensely of the dis.
ister
The finest palaces, churches and
heaters in Messina are heaps of ruins.
Count ess dead bodies are scattered
through the wreckage and decomposi.
ion VIII doubtless bring pestilence to
i'd TO the horros of the situation
The devastation over the entire di.
rfct is more or less complete. No
'art of the province of Reggie de Ca.
abria escaped.
The Trobuna estimates the total ca
ualtles in Calabria and Sicily at be-
ween 10000 and 10000.
The refugees from Messina say there
we're 100 foreigners in the Hotel Tri-
acria, and they all lost their lives.
he hotel has been completely oblit.
rated. 1t was one of the best in the
fty and patronized almost exclusively
Y tourists. II is situated i'm Via Gar.
DaldI
Queen Helena refused to allow her '
usband, the king. to go alone to the {
Gene of the disaster. She said she {
'ould not give up her privilege OF S
haring her husbands dangers and c
both king and queen left J
ome for the south O
II is announced here that the pope
ould inaugurate the establishment OF
n international committee of Roman
atholics the world over to assist {
lie survivors OF the, catastrophe. The +
ope heads the subscription list with o
100000 lires ($200,000). It is under n
God King Victor Emmanuel will give Il
100000 Tires for the same purpose.
The pope has been notified that the
ltire religious communities of Mes.
ma and Reggie, including bishops,
RESTS, monks and nuns, have been
iped out by earthquake and fire. ~
At Cassano and Corenza, both in Ca. L
bria province. there are 1000 dead, d
sl..a h \ 50