Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1909-01-16
ITALY SHAKEN AGAIN
MJRE EARTHQU kES ADD Til
GREAT CALAMITY.
Havoc Is Awful at Messina and Reggie
Believed That More Than 100000
People Lost Their Lives in Recent
Earthquake Followed by Tidal Wave
Supplies Rushed to the Scene.

Rome, Italy, Jan. A violent earth.
quake shock, running north-southwest
and east-northeast, lasting three sec
onds, during which the Stromboli vol.
cano began eruption, occurred on Strom-
boil island Sunday.
The phenomenon was accompanied
by prolonged dull rumblings. The
houses on the island were badly dam
aged and the populaee fed to the
streets in panic, but no one was hurt.
The weather is intensely cold on Strom-
boil island
The island of Stromboli is the most
northeasterly of the Lipari islands,
which lie about 30 miles off the north
coast of Sicily. 1t is almost circular in
form, and on it is the volcano Strom-
boil, which has been almost perpetually
active for 1000 years. The population
of the island is about 10000.
Captives for Days in Ruins.
Messina, Sicily, Jan. 4.-During the
first days following the disaster the
saving of the wounded was the only
thing thought of. AS late as January
a number of persons still living were
taken from the ruins, but they died
upon reaching the open air. Practically
only the surface OF the fallen town has
been gone over.
1t has now been ascertained that the
chain of forts extending around the city
are intact. The powder and cartridge
factory, together with several million
cartridges, were destroyed. 1t is be-
heved Professor Francisco San Felice,
who was attached to the university and
who recently made public details of his
experiments in connection with cancer
and anti-toxine serum for its cure, is
among the dead.
Fight for Food at Reggie.
AT Reggie the conditions of life and
the scenes are 30 unbearable that sew
eral Of the newspaper correspondents
have refused to stay. One was so
hungry, he declares, that he sought des-
perately for a morsel Of bread, but be-
ing unable to find any, was glad to pick
lemon rinds from the mud and eat them.
The correspondent says he witnessed
desperate struggles where the military
was protecting the municipal assessor
in distributing food TO the famished
people. Horses and asses were cut up
with the bayonets of the soldiers and
no sooner was piece Of the flesh, still
warm, received by tho people than IL
Was torn 10 pieces with their eager
teeth.
Troops Patrol heasina.
Tho system Of rescue work Ia Messina
has been considerably augmented BY the
arrival Of troops, Who are 10 be seen
al 0Yor the fuined city in squads Of
10 and 30, patfolliag day aRd night.
"A relief train witb $500 sufferers
abeam from hegglo has arrived ~
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