Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-01-06
ESTIMATES OF FATALITIES HAVE
CEASED TO CONCERN ITAL-
IAN PEOPLE.
CARE FOR THE LIVING is PRES
EMIT. PURPOSE OF UNIT
ED ENDEAvoR.
TALES OF HORROR AND SUFFER-
ING PAIL UPON THE SENSES
AS THEY ARE REclTED.

Rome, Jan. Estimates of the
death roll of the earthquake now
ceases to concern the italian people.
Every effort is now being made to
care for the living Shiploads of fugi-
tiyes are being carried out of the
stricken zone to Naples, Palermo, Ca
tania and other ports, and, according
to the minister of marine, rescue YES
sells to the number of SO are now CEN
tered in the strait of Messina, and s.
900 soldiers are being landed on the
two coasts.
1t has been decided by the govern
ment to send a feet of Immigrant
steamers to transport the survivors to
other places.
The latest reports received at Rome
state that there have been many in
termittent shocks following the first,
to which a greater part of the de-
struction is attributed. The British
warship Minerva reported by wireless
j to Malta that two severe shocks oc-
4 arred at Messina Thursday night.
= Professor Ricco, director of the OBJ
servatory at Mount Etna, states that
his instruments have recorded AZ dis
tinct shocks after the first, but that
during the last IA hours they have
been almost motionless. Etna and
Stromboli are now quiet and he is
certain that the earthquake was not
&c iorir
similar to that of 1855.
scyIIa Completely AnnihiIated.
Palermo, JAN 1.-The roads between
Palermo and Messina are filed with
long processions of wounded refugees.
painfully making their way westward.
They all say they think they are the
only survivors.
Two priests have arrived at Mes,
sina from Scylla, on the Calabrian
coast They confirm previous reports
that this town of 5000 people has been.
completely ann;hilated They say they
are practically the only survivors.
They escaped because at the time OF
the quake they happened to be in the
vault of a church, a portion of the
building that resisted the general col
lapse The priests say also that the
disaster on the Calabrian coast was
greater than that on the Sicilian side.
The coast has been ravaged for 30
miles. and Scylla is not the only vii
LACE wiped out of existence.
The horror of the situation at Mes
with
fESsh dispatch. One correspondent
places the deathroll throughout the
entire territory as high as 100000,
but this appears to be extreme.
Others make the outside estimate 200,-
000 but the minister of marine still
holds to $4,000.
Relief expeditions on the way to
Reggie report is provincial villages
beside those already mentioned in
CaIabria as having been completely
ruined. This would indicate that the,
earthquake did not confne its work
of havoc TO the coast. What has be-
come of the inhabitants of these vii
lagos is not known.
Surgery With Pruning Knives.
The Calabrian coast for 30 miles has
been torn and twisted. From Bagnara
to Reggie. 25 miles. the country is
half demolished. Assistance has
reached but few villages and they are
practically without supplies of any
kind. At Bagnara, surgical operations
are being performed with pruning
knives. but at Reggie even that is inn
possible Thieves infest the country
and the despair of the unaided villa
ges is complete. Hunger supplies the
motive for scenes of shocking vio-
lence and pillagers and robbers defy
the few surviving policemen and sol
diers
Lapiri Islands Disappear
Rome. JAM 1.-THE Vita states that
a wireless me ssage from the strait of
Messina reports that the Lapiri
islands. a group of volcanic islands in
the Mediterranean. near the coast of
Sicily have disappeared. The total
population of the group, $4,000, must
inevitably have persisted. The min