The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-01-08
HUNDRED THOUSAND DIE
in ITAL US EARTHQUAKE
The Tidal Wave and Flames Increase
Panic and Terror Of the People.
WORLD RALLIES TO TTALYS AID.

The heavy rains have tended to
| Quench the fierce fires that ragged
I.during the first three days and the
blackened and smoldering ruins
stand out in CHASTITY outline against
| the blackness as the ships train their
searchlights upon them.
/ The moan of the dying is less
| frequently heard and while hundreds
are still imprisoned in the ruins they
are too deeply buried to be heard
| or are now too weak to call for
the assistance that Will never reach
them. Thus countless victims Will
die in the living tomb. with no ono
to witness their death agony. This,
too, in spite of the fact that every
effort is being made to reach these
] people and life is being sacriticed
/ to the treacherous ruins in the UNI
Gertaking.
+ Griscom Delays Trip.
/ Lloyd C. Griscom, the American
ambassador, has decided not to go
/ to Messina at present. He will await
the expected arrival of the Amer
/ lean batt1eship fleet now approaching
| Suez from the Red Sea. in the strick-
en- district. The warships probably
will get to Messina next week. Mr..
Griscom will then go to the south.
The Ambassador sent to Messina
Major ). F. Reynolds Lands, the
| American military attache; Bayard
| Cutting, Jr., the American vice con-
sui at Milan; Winthrop Chandler and
the interpreter of the embassy with
| full instructions concerning the
methods to be adopted in the search
/ for Americans supposed to have been
in Sicily and Calabria at the time
fof the earthquake.
The Ambassador has communica-
/ ted to the government the receipt
of a contribution for the sufferers
of $4,000 from the American Red
Cross, as well as first contribution
OF $4,000 from the Christian Her
aid.
Despite the first assertions that
William H. Bishop, United States con-
sui at Palermo, was not in the Island
of Sicily at the time of the earth
quake, the American Embassy now
believes that he Is there. An eff
forts to communicate with him, how
ever, have been fruitless.
Idpari Islands Safe.
The first cheerful news of the deyas-
tation of Calabria and Eastern Sicily
by earthquake and tidal wave was
received by the minister of marine.
A dispatch from the commander of
the torpedo boat sent post-haste to
| verify the report that the Lipari,
or Aeolian Island had been engulfed
and all the population, some $4,000
| people. annihilated, brought the
| grateful information that while the
| islands had experienced the earth
quake only a few buildings have been
demolished and that no lives were
lost.
| The King and Queen of Italy con-
tinue their pious pilgrimage along
what was once the beautiful and
smiling Southern Coast Of Sicily. but
which now is desolated region
strewn with unsepulchred dead, and
where thousands are dying iR an
guish, amid the ruins of their homes.
The Duke of Aosta is on the scene,.
devoting himself to the succor of
his countrymen. The Duke has
visited Palmi and all the surrounding
villages. This section, after Messina
and Reggie, suffered more heavily
than any other. The Duke said to
one of the aides with him:
THE catastrophe, indeed, is a
scourge from God. The time has
come when 1t lis no longer time to
think about those buried beneath the
| ruins. All hope of saving any of
these unfortunates after the four
days that have elapsed since the dis
! aster must of necessity be abandoned.
All our efforts must be devoted to
caring for the wounded survivors. =
The colossal emigrant steamships