The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-03
Patients in Hospital
 Create a Panic. CAUGHT IN THE CRUSH AND INJURIES HER CHEST King Continues Organizing Work
 of Rescue. The Rescue worker. Are stin Not Nu- perous Enough To Cope With A The Immediate Work In
 Hand at Messina.

which the King and Queen of Italy are facing in their noble efforts among tho sticken people of sicily and the south was brought home to the people today when word reached here that Queen Hell ena had been injured.
 Fortunately her injuries proved to be not severe. but 1t is realized that at any moment another calamity might hap pen. involving the serious injury or :. even death of their majesties.
 No one among the rescuers has shown more self-sacrifice than King Victor Emmanuel and the Queen, too. has taxed her health and strength to the ut most in giving relief and assistance to the injured. Anxiety for the sovepeigns is increasing in Rome.
 Apart from the great strain which their majesties unquestionably are un-' dergoing. there is danger from the eirthquake shocks which do not seem to have ceased: from walls that have not yet been leveled; from great pitt falls in the broken streets and from dta- ease.
 The injuries suffered by the Queen resulted from a panic among the pa- tients in one of the improvised hospit- aIs at Messina. when the trembling of the earth and the rumbling noise indi- cated another movement of the earth. The Queen was caught in the rush of patients. who, panic-stricken. were seeking safety in the. open. The panic was soon quelled, however and the Queens injuries. which proved to he little more than contusions. were ate tended to.
 Panic in Lipari TsIands.
 Dispatches were received from all dhe Lipari Islands stating that the eirthQual1e shocks were very heavy there and that panic ensued. The con vfcts. of whom large number are inn prisoned there. made rising. but were suppressed The Stromboli volcano showed greatsactivity. The damage. however, was not serious and no one was Killed. but the people are camp ing fin the open air fearing that fur ther shocks may come and overthrow their homes.
 The Duke of Genoa will leave Naples tomorrow afternoon for Messina. He said today that he wished to con- tribute all in his power to the work of rescue going on in Sicily and would put himself at the disposal of the fleet now in those waters, or work as a pri- vate individual, not having other am. bition than to join with the sailors, among whom he has spent his life, in helping his brothers in the south.
 Nunzio Nasi the former, Minister of Justice, who was involved in the late scandal connected with public funds, has joined the rescuing parties at Mes sina. He was accompanied by six doc- tors. several nurses and a number of students and citizens of T'rapaIn. Even the presence of Nasi. who Is the idol of Sicilians. did not serve to infuse fresh life into the depressed people.
 It is stated that the Pope has decid- ed to send an appeal to the Catholic Bishops throughout the world for the. purpose of obtaining subscriptions to the earthquake fund. He will place particular dependence on the generos- fly of Americans. English and Irish.
 WS1I C0nvOEke Parliament.
 Premier Gioliotti in an interview tonight said that parliament would he convolxed as soon as the king. who is expected to return here tomorrow night. could sign the decree. .,
 First of all he said the financial question would be considered. It was purposed to take S6.000.000 of the bud get surplus which would be devoted to alIeviating the catastrophe in the south. The government would appoint committee of experts to draw up a scheme looking to a reconstruction of the cities based on lessons learned in the past
 The premier said the opportunity had faced three oalamities-the earth quake, the robbers of corpses and the robberies of the bourse. He might add to this list the journalists who sat at homes freely criticized every one and every thing and a certain class of financiers who had attempted to raid the bank of Italy. He pointed out that this had been done by the circula- tion of false dispatches setting forth the fact that Italy had lost $10,O0O, 900 at Messina and Reggie. in the hopo that this report would cause heavy decline in the stock values. The re" SHf VV01Ild effect other banks.
 The government he said had stopped this maneuver by ordering the pre- fects not to allow the courses to open.
 An earth tremor yesterday at Mes ssina created a panic among the patients in one of the improvised hos- pita1s and the Queen, trying 10 allay the fears of the patients . who were crowding the doors, was caught in the crush and sustained slight contusions on the chest. The Duke of Aosta also has been slightly injured at Palmi plas- ter from a falling wall cutting his face and one of his hands. ~
 The King and Queen are still at Mse- sina. The King continues to organize and superintend the work of Rescue and the Queen is doing everything within her power in consoling and aileviating the sufferings of the survivors.
 No news of the death of any Ameri- cans, excepting A. c. cheney, the Amer ican Consul at Messina, and his wife. and the members of the Pierce family, has been received from any quarter. J. H. Pierce was formerly American Vice Consul at Messina-
 Stuart K. Lupton. the present Amer ican Vice Consul at Messina. is safe. He was last seen Thursday night. alive and well.
 An Italian who has resided forty wars fin Messiua said today he was con- adent there were no Americans in the city at the time of the disaster.
 Ambassador Griscom has set. forth the best way for relief from American to be sent to the devastated district. He recommends that through the CO., operation of committee of Americans In Rome. steamers be chartered at Ge-