Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1908-12-31

Rome.-Ihe three provinces of Co
Jena, Catanzaro and Reggie di Caleb
fia, comprising the Department of Ca
|obria, which forms the southwestern
Extremity OF Italy. or the toe of the
boot were devastated Monday by an
Earthquake, the far-reaching effects
Rf which were felt almost throughout
|he entire country
One hundred thousand dead; Mes
ina in Sicily and Reggie and score
II other towns in southern Italy over.
fhelmed, the entire Calabrian region
bid waste; that is the earthquake's
|ecord so far as at present known
Fom the reports that are coming
|]owly into Rome on account of the
lmost complete destruction of lines
n communication to the stricken
laces.
The death list In Messina is esti-
mated at from $4,000 to $4,000; that
I Reggie, which, with its adjacent
illages, numbered $4,000 people, in
dudes almost the entire population.
t Palmi, 1000 are reported dead; at
assano, 100; at Coscnza, 500, and
alf the population OF Bagnara, about
1000. The Monteleon region has
cen devastated, and Biposa, Semi
ara, San Giovanni. Scilla, Lazzaro
hd Cannitello, and all other com
hunes and villages on the straits are
ruins.
Stunned at the magnitude of the
blamity which has overtaken fellow
buntrymen, all Italy mourns for the
ricken province Of Calabria and the
land OF Sicily. Accustomed for cen
lries to earthquakes, Italy stands
yer in dread, but none was prepared
pr the disaster which in the fraction
minute on Monday devastated
ties and towns and caused the death
thousands.
Messina. whose tragic history has
pen marked by tidal waves and war
I'D which was the center Of the ter
stial maelstrom. was shaken tc
ms. Flames burst forth to complete
e city's destruction, and to burn
I've untold numbers helplessly pin
ned beneath fallen walls and broken
nbers. The strait of Messina was
AIKEN and twisted by the earths
embling. for mariners report the
annel altered beyond recognition
be ports and villages on both the
|ntinental and Sicillan sides were
rocked and inundated. and all light
buses along the coast were swal
wed up. Navigation now Is danger
is and in some places impossible.
In the Calabrian district, which was
ly beginning to recover from the
Fects OF the earthquake OF 1905, Reg
b was the center of the earth's up
laval The seaport of Reggie is re
|rted as no longer existing, and the
~ proper is in ruins. The loss oil
e on both sides of the strait and in
stern Sicily was enormous. One o.
e refugees from Reggie, who was
e first to bring the news of the
US destruction, tried TO make his
by to Sicily in sailboat but was
mpelled to return, and finally found
fety at peninsula port. In de
riding his experiences, he said.
+'The sea was strangely. mysterious
agitated, and the heavens were
laze. Nearing Sicily the clearing
loke revealed the mystery; Mes
pa was in flames. In the frenzy o.
spair. turned my boat back to Ca
bria."
Starving, bleeding from injuries
d almost insane from their terrify
experiences, Messina's survivors
fleeing in all directions. Tn,
ectacle presented by the ruined
Rport is described as terrifying
nbling buildings both killed ant
ptiiated many. while hundreds o
injured, imprisoned in the wreck
E, were abandoned to their fate b,
fleeing populace. One of thos'
O escaped said:
The earth seemed suddenly t.
pp and then turn violently on II
Is. The whole population, VIII
actically were precipitated from tn
nses rent in twain, were spul
bund like tops as they ran through
streets. Many fell crushed t
hth, and others, bewildered, too
[uge for breath beside the tottel
walls, where they soon met tn
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