The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-01-02
Persons Perish-Messina One Roar
ing Red Furnace-Imprisoned People
in Stricken City Dying of Hunger.

Messna-The city is absolutely destroyed. The spectacle is a terrifying
out Immediately after the earthquake and devoured all that the earth shocks had
spared. Nearly the entire population is buried in the debris. The latest calcua
alone reach the stupendous figures of nearly 100000.
Help from the outer world is at last beginning to reach the stricken city
The British cuiser sutkj steamed in Wednesday from Malta and was followed
by the Russian batteships Slave and Czarewitch and the cruiser Admiral Maka
r"f. The officers IN men of the two navies IRE giving every possible aid yet
their task is a fearful me.
oncet the streets of the town. The sights Oh every hand are so moving, SO tragic
that it is almost impossible to describe them adequately. The utmost depths of
anguish "d suffering seem to have been sounded:
The entire garrison of Messina has persisted in the ruins and people who
kinsmen, wives, husbands, parents md children lie The sea is closed to them
val of ships, am they are suffering the cruel extremhies Of hunger and
thirst. Here and there they ear be seen searching eagerly in the debris and
universal ruin fr some morses to eat or for water to drink, but the heaps of
dust and debris yield them nothing.
At every turn som lamentabe scene meets the eyes Men and women half
naked and terribly injured arc imploing relief. The hospitals and chemists
shops have disappeared, and there are neither drugs nor surgical instruments at
hand.
1t will take at least a year % remov the dead from the ruins. The catas-
tophe surprised the people while they were asleep, which helps to Explain tine the
II large number OF depnados have been let loose upon the ruined city.
Some few of the dead have already been recovered rom thu ruins AM have
been buried in the public gardens. The search for the wounded M injured "
the debris is being vigorously prosecuted.
Rome-South Italy and the island of Sicily have been visited by al aP
parhg calamity, the extent of which cannot yet be grasped. An earthquake
Monday wrecked city after city and obiteated smaller towns and villages with
nut number
Then a tidal wave swept along the Strait If Messma and added to the
horror, drowning the people in their hslpessnes and panic. Fire came to com
phte the work of destruction.
Flames broke tut in the devastated cities and countless numbers Of wounded
mn, an children were burned to death.
Any adequate estimate of the total casualties is Is yet quite impossible,
but the Rome Tribuna places the number at 10000.
Rome-The disaster in the province of alabra and the island of Sicily has
assumed tagSeTDR pTOpUtNuN Each suCCSnNc ItIuIN NN'ou ANh viz 7'N"
region makes it more apparent that the stories of the widespread destruction
were little, if any, exaggerated.
Reports are coming in from other towns gvng estimates of dead therein
as thousands"
Vandalism of the worst kind has broken ot, and the government has adopted
the most energetic and most severe measure or its repression. Robbers an
looters are to bes shot on sight.
The prison at Aesana collapsed Some of the prisoners we're killed, but
the survivor made their escape and joined the hooigans who were sacNne the
city. Such confusion rigned that the robbers met with no resistance.
FIRE, ROBBERY AND DEAD EVERYWHERE.
The night in Mesina va me OF horror Observation-Disclosures, robbery, dead
and dying on every side. the city in the utmost confusion and the people panic
stricken and under a spell of terror
Bands of citizens were formed and helped heroicany in the work of rescue.
Many courageous acts were performed by soldiers nd citizens alike, and in
asses the rescuers themselves lost their lives in trying to help others.
are still utterly inadequate, owing to the immensely of te disaster.
The fnest palaces, churches nd theaters of essina are heaps Off ruins Count
less dead bodies are scattered through the wreckage and their decomposition will
doubtless Ming peNience o add to the horrors of the situation.
The devastation over the entire district "a more less complete. No part
Of the province of Reggie de CalaLnia escaped. The disturbance ws most severe
along the shores of the Straits of Mesina, where the cities of Messinaa and Reggie
situated.
TIDAL WAVE 80 FEET HIGH.
In more than one town the shocks causedg gas meters to explode, ad dis
fires resulted. The flames helped from time to time to swell the death
list.
The CONFORMATION Oft the Straits of Messna mas been materially altered. The
tidal wave that completed thed destructive work of The earth quake ws thirty
two feet high.