The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-12-29
MOUNT ETNA MAY ALSO
ADD HER TERRORS
Part Of the City Of Messina
Dropped Into the Sea and
10000 People There Are
Said to Have Been LOtS---
Reports From Naples.

Rome, Dec. 2e.--ltaly Is paralyzed by
yesterdays calamity. The evening news
papers make it $4,000 people dead. The
semi-official estimates make it not less
than $4,000. To add to the terror, Mt.
Etna is smoking, and the whole land
is swept with drenching rains before a
bitter north wind, In which the homeless
thousands suffer.
Rome, Dec. 29.--In the late edition of
Tribuna estimates Of the dead in yester-
days earthquake and tidal wave run
between $4,000 and $4,000. Twice that
number we're injured or are suffering
desperately from exposure.
Palermo, Dec. 2e.--Twelve thousand
people are said to be dead in Messina
alone. A part Of the city literally drop
ped into the sea.
Catama, Sicily. Dec. PA volcanic
eruption Of Mount Etna is imminent.
Terrific explosions are audible here. The
last eruption Of the volcano was in
1892.
Naples, Italy, Dec 29.--The best esti.
mates indicate that from $4,000 to 10000
people lost their lives in the great earth
quake that ravaged three Italian prov
inces and large part of Sicily yester
day. The city of Messina was almost
totally destroyed, and the death list
there is placed at 1900 and 500 at
Palmi. These figures are incomplete.
Six hundred vessels were swept ashore
by the tidal wave, and some are high and
dry two miles from the coast.
Mossina is covered with two feet Of
slime, and fire is raging unchecked in
the ruins.
King Victor Emmanuel passed here to-
day en- route to the scene Of the disaster.
He was greatly depressed. Five thou-
sand troops are on the way and 10000
more are ready. A squadron Of battle
ships sailed to-day to patrol the coast Of
the devastated region. Thousands of
naked victims are roaming the region.
Looting has commenced and the troops
and the ghouls are already clashing. The
soldiers have been ordered to shoot the
manrauders on sight. There is no news
from the Lipari Islands, which were in
the path Of the seismic tremor, and they
may be wiped out. Ten torpedo boats
which were moored at the wharf in Mes
sina are believed to have been destroyed
For period the town Of Messina and
the whole province Of Reggie were com
pletely isolated through Interruptions to
the telegraph and telephone and land
slides that obstructed the railways. Alb
solutely nothing was heard from Reggio
throughout the day, while the first news
from Messina came in the form of a
dispatch, which torpedo boat, flying at
full speed along the coast Of the PENN
sula, carried from point to point, always
finding the wires down, until it reached
Nicotera, where the telegraph lines were
found to be intact. From this point the
dispatch was sent. 1t briefly stated that
the situation was desperate and added
that Captain PASSING, commander of the
local station of torpedo boats, was bur
led under the debris, after having with
other officials performed heroic work in
trying to save others.
People Panic Stricken.
At Catania the panic stricken people,
fearing new shocks, absolutely refused to
re-enter their houses and are camping
in the squares which arc free from wa
ter, and the surrounding country. The
tidal wave sunk FIVE hundred boats there
and did great damage to several large
vessels and steamers, including the Aus
trian steamer Buda.
Not only did Catania suffer from the
effects of q tidal wave, but a similar
body of water inundated the handsome
streets of Messina which flank the har-
Dor, covering them with a thick layer /
OF mud, which rendered difficult the sue.
coring of the wounded. many of whom |
could be seen lying under the wreckage. |
II is reported that the villages of Faro |
and Ganzirri, adjoining Messina, have |
disappeared The effects Of the earth /
quake were aggravated by fire from an
explosion of gas, the flames, which l
swept along several Of the streets, add /
ing terror upon terror
In Calsbris, the region around Monte
leone was most affected. The village Of 1
Stefanaconi. the inhabitants Of which /
numksr $500, was practically destroyed. I
Cnly Ave persons were killed but many 4
we're injured Mgr. Morabi.o. the bishop /
Of MiIet,o who distinguished himself in /
ihs earthquake Of 1905. did valiant work ]