The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-01-06
MANNING, S. c. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY g. 1909
SEVERE SHOCKS
Continue Making Complete the
Ruin of Once Fair Cities.
LlPARI GROUP SUNK

| Asa GAbS9 SaAa~Sa S~uSas
Volcanic Group Near Sicily Report
| ed to Have Disappeared With til
/ Entire Pop1ilation-List Of Ca5t
alties Now Estimated as 10000
Bend Murder and Steal.
Ror.e, Dec. 31.-The Vita Sta
that wireless message from III
Strait Of Messlna reports that tn
Lipari Islands. a group of Yolcani
islands. in the Mediterranean, nea
the coast of Sicily, have disappeared
The total population Of tile sroul
numbers 2S,U00, aud must i:evi
tably have pcrjshed.
Estimates @! The death roll OF th'
earthquake nov cease to concern the
Italian people It is enough t
know that the catastrophe is over
whelming-fgures would add roth
ing to the grief Of the stricken IA,
ZION, nor move to greater effort:
those upon whom the work of re-
lief and rescue has fallen.
Every channel open to the gov
ernment has been utilized to this
end, and other nations have becn
quick to come to it's assistance, even
before the cry for aid went up.
Shiploads cf fugitives have been car-
lied out of the stricken zone to
Naples, Palermo, Catania and other
rorts and according to the Dii.lis.
ter of marine. rescue vessels to the
number of Sc are now centered in
The Strait of Messina and 5000 sol
diers are being landed on the coasts.
Most important Of all now Is the
question OF the living. thousands If
those who escaped the falling walls
and the sweep of the tide are starv-
ing and without clothes or shelter.
They can scarcely longer survive
their suherings. The first thought
has been to carry food and cover
ing for these helpless people and it
has now been decided By the govc1 IL
ment to send a fleet of enliI AM
steamers to transport them to other
places.
Tie latest renorts-receiyed At
Rome state there have been many
intermittent shocks, following the
first, to which the greater part of
the destruction is attributed. Tho
British warship Minerva reported by
wireless to Malta that two severe
shocks occurred at Messina last
night.
The horror Of the situation at
Messina and Reggie grows with
every fresh despatch. One c. the
,rrespondents places the deat'' rol:
throughout the entire territory as
high as 100000 but this appears to
be extreme. Others make the cs-
innate 100000, but the Official es-
innate as made by the mini ter Of
marine still holds to 115,000.
Relief expeditions which have
been making their way to Reggie
have encountered tremendous OBJ
structions all along the route. Til "
report Is provincial villages beside
those already mentioned in Clat&-
ria as having been completely
ruined. This would indicate that
the earthquake did not confine its
work of havoc to the coast. What
has become of the inha bita@ts of
the villages is nor known Those
that were left alive after the de-
struction of their homes donl.tlcs$
joined the great army of Refugees
seeking safety. or have fallen by the
wayside.
The Calabrian coast for 80 miles
has been torn and twisted. From
Bagnara to Raygio, distance OF
25 miles, the country is half de-
molished. A ssistance has reach2
BUT few Of the villages and they are
practically without supplies OF any
i;ind. At Baganara surgical opnr
tions are being performed with prun-
ing knives. but at Reggie even thar
is impossible.
Bands of ,nieves infest the couE-
Try and the despair of the nnaidet'
villages is complete. Hunger SUP
lilies the motive for scenes OF shock
ing violence md pillagers and roll.
bers defy the few surviving police
men and soldiers.
A dispatch received here from tac
observatory at Rirosto says r.:
center. of the earthquake was in tn,
the sea in the southern part of the
Strait of s1essina.
Signor Stancel, distinguishes
citizen attached to the Florence 90
servatory. is of the opinion that ih'
fataclysnl WIS geologic rather thai
volcanic. According TO Sigror Stan
eel the trouble was caused by SUI
| tsidence of the lower strata. AS re
suit of this depression huge c:ac'
appeared in the form of a semi-clr
Gle. the center of which was TIL
focal point of the disturbance.