The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-05
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The home of MI. cheney, the Amer
! lean consul, was crumbled to dust in
the first shock and its inmates almost
| inextricabIy buried beneath the ruins.
| Stuart K. Lupton. the American
vice council was in his room at the
| Hotel Vittoria. when that building
was demolished. His escape was
| indeed miraculous. Wearing only his
| trousers and carrying his shoes and
! his overcoat in his hands, he CROPPED
his way along the quay, knee deep in
! water towards the American con-
! sulate. On the way he met woman
and a man. both quite naked, and in
stinctively laid his overcoat over the
shoulders of the woman! Clambering
over the ruins of the consulate he be-
came conscious of the fact that his
feet were bruised and bleeding. Then
he wondered why he had carried his
shoes in his hands. He continued in
a state of bewilderment until he es-
tablished himself on a British ship in
the harbor Later he again came
ashore and raised the American flag
over the new consulate, in damaged,
but one of the few remaining build
ings in the outskirts of the city. Then
Mr.. Lupton began an industrious
search for Americans All of the
Americans who have not been heard
from may be considered safe. Prob
ably all are in the south of Sicily.
Those who are known to have suffered
from the earthquake have been re-
ported. The telegraph and the tele-
phone wires have been placed at the
service of the government and per-
sona1 messages will be delayed in
definitely.
Hotel Register Found.
The Associated Press correspondent
found amid the ruins of the Hotel
Vittoria the blackboard with the full
list of the guests of the hotel clearly
written upon it on the night of the
disaster. 1t bore. besides the name of
Mr.. Lupton onlyv two other English
names, those of British subjects.
The disaster was distinctly an
Italian one, except for the American,
French, Turkish and Swedish consuls,
those Of the chaplain and few Ger
man shipping clerks.
Money is now needed for relief.
Hundreds of families have been left
without bread winners and thousands
of persons have been manned for life.
The horrors of the sanitary con-
ditions in Messina are unspeakable,
and only the toughest of surgical at
tention is possible.
After sleeping one night on a plank
without covering from the rain. the
correspondent of the Associated Press
the next night took refuge in a hos
pital on board ship where there were
400 wounded persons without sin
gle nurse. All night long the piteous
cries of the distressed persons for
water We're unheeded because of the
lack of attendants and several of
them died before daylight Many |
women among the rescued |
prematurely gave birth to babies.
Typhoid Fever Breaks Out.
The difficulties of removing the in
jured from Messina and Reggie is in
creased because of the fact that there ]
are no docks and it is necessary to |
transfer them by rowboats. The first |
cases of typhoid have broken out |
h n ie l1f H.
ton 70 be taken Immediately for the |
disposal of the dead. The hope of |
rescuing any of the living beneath the |
ruins has been abandoned. Until the |
present time all attention has been i
concentrated upon the removal of /
human bodies from the streets, while |
the carcasses of animals killed by the |
earthquake and those of dogs and cats