Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-12-31

Richmond, Va. Dec. 3I.-Iniorma.
ton from South Boston and Houston,
Hslifax county, early this afternoon is II
the effect that voting 10 the local option
contests is heavy 10 both towns with
the chances fsvoring the drys. Several
per onsl encounters have been narrowly
avoided. The dry victory in Roanoke
yesterday greatly encouraged the TEN
perauce forces 10 todsy's battles.
The Earthquakes In Italy and Sicily,
Rome, Dec. 3l.-Sjulhern Italy and
the nOrIh coast of Sicily are today one
huge hospital. After three days OF her.
culean effort, the work of the rescuers
is at last bearing appreciate fruit.
Naples is the giant "ward" in this big
hospital. Before night 1t is expected
that sixty Thousand of the survivors will
be landed in that city. Every facility
Of the city has been taxed to the utmost,
but 80 many Injured and sick are being
taken there thst il is feared it will be
impossible for the authorities to care for
all.
The number 10 urgent need OF medical
treatment is roughly estimated at 100,-
900. Ten per cent. of this number, or
l0,0 1t is believed will yet succumb
10 their injuries aud the frighIful expos
ure to which they have been subjected.
The government sdheres to its est.
Il 81 Ia
as follows:
Messiua50, 900; Reggie, 40, 900; Monte
lionel, 800; sau Eutermis, 1900; Bag
nara, 1000; GIzzid, 1000; PalmI, 900;
Seminars, 400; other towns and couu ry
districts "a, 900.
The press estimates put the number
all the way from 1901 to 10000.
Late reports from the rescuers cay
that there sre no longer any victims snll
alive in the ruins. Numberless cbared
bodies are found 10 the ruius, telling of
deaths too terrible to contemplate. 10
macy cases the bodies we're but slightly
burned, death refusing an early escspe
to the victims. The features of these
were terribly distorted.
Nava officers DOW in Messina esli-
mated the dad in that city today at
1876 900 aud placed the total deaths at
175, 900.
The extent of the second series of
shocks has not yet been definitely
announced. The sudden increase 10
the estimate of the dead has given rise
10 the fear that the shocks of yesterday
may have proved far more disastrous
than at first. suspected.
Reports from Messinia today made no
special reference to yesterdays disturb
ances, other than to say that many TIT
Iering walls were shaken down.
Robbers are said to have ct )len 80, 000-
900, from the wrecked vaults OF the
bank of Sicily in Msssina.
Reggie, Dec. 81, via wireless from
cruiser c. a!it.-King Victor Emmanuel,
Minister Of Justice Orlando, and Minister
of Public Works Bertolini have arrived
here aboard the cruiser Ooatit. They
found the lower part of the city under
25 feet Of water and the upper pait OF
the town a big heap Of rulns. Not
building is standing in the city. 40
army dyDanitiug the city for a month
could rot have RACED it more completely.
The streets of the upper town are filed
with corpses, while hundreds of the
bodies of those who died 10 the lower
part have been washed to sea, never to
be recovered. The survivors are crszad.
Apparently not more than 5000 OF
6, 900 out of population, of 5000
survive. The mayor Of Reggie is
among the dead.
Naples, Dec. 91.-Saamen arriving
here from passages through the S RAFT
of Messina report that all the seaside
villages on the Calbrian shore have dis
appeared, apparently engulfed by the
sea. The mariners say the shore line is
Unacceptable and that Charybdis, the
whirlpool of NEUROLOGICAL origin, famed
throughout the world aud used with q
proverbisl meaning in the literature of
all nations, has disappeared.
Catsnis, Sicily, Dec. 3l.-The Danger
Of an epidemic of disease In Messius
and Reggie is momentsrily becoming
more alarming, according to kilograms
received here today. Hundreds OF de-
cayiug bodies are lying in the streets,
the work of buryiDg them in trenches |
aud burning them on funeral pyres
being 80 appalling that it is feared for
the worst. AS fast az the bodies are dis
posed of other bodies are dug from
the ruins The stencil that arises
from the cOrpses renders the rescuers,
work nnbearable. Rsscuers are con.
stantly staggering from the ruins, sick /
aud faintiDg, returning to duty only after
being revived.
Manchester, England, Dec. 81
Italian consul here estimates the num-
Der of dead in Sicily aud Ca'a5ria at
240, 600. al make this estimate" he
said, ION official messages received from
my government and from what know OF
the Da.ure aud extent OF the devastation.
The exact account can never be known,
but am positive that scores Of small
places that have not yet been rescued in
he estimates have been swept out of
existence"
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