Weekly journal-miner., 1909-01-06

The death list in Messina is any. where from l2,O0O to 50,000, and in Reggie, which with it's adjacent vii. lages. numbers 45,Oo0, almost the en. tire population.
 Al Palmi 1000 persons are reported dead; at Cassano, 1000; at Cosenza 800, half the population, and at Bag nara about 1000.
 The Montelcon region is devastated, and Riposa, Seminara, San Giovani, Ecilla,, !, Lazzaro, Cannitello and all oth. CTS communities and villages in the straits are in ruins.
 The king and queen of Italy are on their way to Messns, having sailed tonight from Naples aboard the bat. tleship Victoria Emmanuel.
 The pope has shown the greatest dis tress over the calamity, and himself was the first to contribute, giving a sum amounting to $200, 900 for the re. lief of the afflicted.
 British, French and Russian war ships are steaming toward the south and already several ships of Great Britain and Russia have performed heroic service in the work of rescue. It is feared many foreigners nave been killed, as a number of hotels in Messina and doubtless other places were crowded with tourists.
 Little is known of the fate of the diplomatic representatives of the pow CTS at these posts, although the Italian government is using every effort to relieve the anxiety felt on this ae' count.
 The gravest danger is pestilence may follow the destruction of the towns, because on account of the vast havoc the bodies will lie unburied foi days and possibly weeks.
 Those who escaped death, many o' them badly injured, are making then way by thousands to the nearest places of refuge. Their sufferings even no" must be intense, as they are without food and clothing.
 The strait at Messina was shaker and twisted by the earthquakes, fo mariners report that the enamel alered beyond recognition.
 Ports and villages on both the con tinental and Sicilian sides are wrecked inundated, and all light houses aioni the coast are swallowed up. Naviga tion is now dangerous, and in som places impossible.
 The seaport of Reggie is reported a mo longer existing, and the city prope is in ruins.
 The loss of life on both sides of tn strait, and in eastern Sicily is enol nous.
 Starving, bleeding from injuries an almost insane from the terrifying e' periences. Messina s survivors are he' ing in all directions.
 The spectacle presented by the run ed seaport is described as terrifyinI Tumbling buildings both killed an mutilated many. Hundreds inJufe and imprisoned in the wreekage wei abandoned to their fate by the heein populace.
 One survivor said: "Thc esr' seemed suddenly to drop and then tui violently on its axis. The whole DO ulation was practically precip'tat' from the houses when they were rel in twain and people were spun arouI like tops as they ran through U streets. Many fell and were crush' to death, and other, bewildered, too refuge for breath inside the totteri' walls, where they soon met the rate their companions"
 The sailors and marines of the hi sian and British squadrons disembar ed at Messina and performed cou' geous acts, rescuing the injured a removing the wounded.
 A large number of survivors we transferred to the warships. Ih' were transformed into great hoati hospitals.