Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1909-01-07
TYPHOID BREAKS OUT
Survivors Of Stricken N1esslna May
Suffer Terrible scouree - Many
Refugees Die Of InJuries.


Messina that typhoid fever has broken
out there has filed the authorities with
alarm and apprehension. 1t IL realized
here that unless proper sanitary pre-
cautions are taken At once the disease
my spread far outsids the ruined dis
tricts. Even though tho present cases
may prove to bo dyssntery. It il we'll
known that this disease under such
conditions as prevail At N1essina and
Reggie would be likely to prove Just az
fatal as typhoid itself.
According TO we'll known medical au-
thorites Il Ia the latter disease that has
been responsible for tho defamation Of
almost whole armies in time Of war and
the exciting cause 10 unwh olesome drink
ing water and the ingest!on Of articles
unfit for food. PHYSICIANS here are In
clined to think that dysenterv IA more
60 be feared than any other disease IN
the devastated regions. IT was very fatal
in the Cr1mea in 1884: in the armies of
the United States during the Civil War
and again in the Franco German war Of
1870, Almost perfect conditions for Its
propagation prevail at MessinA.
AMERICA PRESENTS A STEAAGBR
King Victor Emmanuel to-day rsosived
Ambassador 014scon. VINO presented hin,
with tho steamer Bayern IN the name OF
tho American relief committee. repre-.
senting tho American people. The Bay
ern is loaded with provisions and medi-
cal supplies and Is ready to proceed tc
the Strait Of Messina- The King was
greatly pleased and said that the Amer
icans were always hrst.
Thty4aAD Thousand r~%,,wa>~ bou> ~,
rived at Naples UP to data. Of which 800
are wounded. They are receiving tn
best OF care but many have died from
their injuries and others have gone mad
More than 60 per cent. Of those taken on,
Of tho ruins after three days did no,
have strength left 10 survive their terri
BILE experiences.
The United States gunboat SCORPION,
left Naples to-day. carrying supplies
principally Of sterilized milk. for q ri
button at Messina under the direction OF
the American consulate
The American Vice Consul Stuart Lup-
ton in answer to inquiries made BY the
State department at Washington tole.
graphs from MessfnA that the house OF
the Little Sisters Of the Poor was
destroyed. Two Of the sisters Natalia
San Flippa and Guiseppa Buon Giovanni
were killed. The others. u IN number
are DESTROYS Of going to Milan but this
Is uncertain.
FLEET TO VISIT NAPLES.
Rear Admiral sperry. commander OF
the American battlsship feet, has notified
the authorities here that he will be in
Naples on January with the Arst
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| The latest avs from Reggie shows
that earthquake occurred there to-day
the shocks being about % minutes apart
One OF the heavy shocks caused tbs
and added 70 the terror Of the few sur.
vivors who remain there.
Another contingent Of 400 refugees
arrived here tonight. The King Wis
tied tho injured and promised tina,
all possible would be done 70 ale.
viate their sufferings. the southern
and central towns Of Italy are grad
ually filing with refugees and thes,
are being sent as rapidly as possibI,
to northern points. Two hundred O.
them arrived at Milan to-day.
MOU M AIN EEno WILL NCI LILA II
One of the refugees who reached her,
after crossing the whole OF Caiahria sad
ly describes his once nourishing land a,
an immense silent metropolis, stretching
from the Ionian to the Tyrehenian sea
The still surly and Aerce mountaineerl
Of Calabria rebel. rebel against tho idei
of abandoning their country. ono sayinl
Indignantly.
we are not adventures; here W,
were horn this land alone can suckl
us, We understand tho world Is comm,
to mn end but We prefer that our en-,
should be In our own land" To this de
voted son Of the almost virgin peak
hts village II his world.