The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-01-02

i clared his intention of selling every l bit of his property and dividing the | proceeds.
 l Queen Helena. who refuses to leave the scene of wreckage in Messina, is | reported today as on the verge or prostration from grief and exhaustion. The advisability of forcfbly removing i her is being considered by the cabi- net. Whenever the suggestion is made 1 that she return to Rome, the Queen breaks into weeping and asks: 'Why | can I not work like the others?" On one occasion she defiantly asked: Does being a Queen make me any l less woman and mother whose heart | cannot be touched by such grievous | suffering?'
 All appeals made to the Queen on 1 the basis of the danger to the Imper- 1 ial House were utterly unheeded. Her l praises were sung in every home in Italy, and not a Queen in all the world will henceforth- have the devotion of 1 her subjects in such large measure. Catania, Jan. 2.-It has been discov- cred that Marquis Semola is still alive in the cellar of his ruined castle. The place in which the Marquis is inpris- oned is covered by tons of debris which it is feared will crash in upon him before the reScuerS. can effect his release. The Marquis shouted to the l! reseuers that he had sufficient room 1 to move about and had enough provis- ions to last. several days. He told the party to attend first to those who are in more imminent peril. The fact that Semola is still alive has encouraged the rescue parties to redoubled efforts l in the hope that many others may be found alive.
 The discovery has checked the plan to spread quick-lime indiscriminately over the ruins. Only in places Where the stench of purified bodies is such as to peril the lives of the surviv- ors and rescuers will quick-lime be 1 used. The King has ordered three ship loads of quick-lime to Messina and Reggie with all possible haste as the danger of pestilence is increasing g hourly.
 Rome, Jan. 2.-There has been no estimate of deaths of an official char acter for two days. The exact num- Der will never be known. The gov ernnent allows itself a range of 30,- 900 in it's estimate declaring that the total will be somewhere between 12O- GOO and 150,000.'' Later on there will be an agreement of some round num- Der of sufficient size to make the ca tastrophe the second largest in the worlds history. It is possible even
 
 the destruction of Yeddo, now Tokio, when 100000 lives were lost.
 In the combined loss of life and de- struction of property, the quake is un- paralleled It is practically deter mined not to attempt to rebuild Reg gio, on the western Calabrian shore, while the present site of Messina will probably be removed to a point many miles south. It is believed this will be much safer place than the pres- ent location.
 Washington, Jan. 2.-Caspar Crown ingshield, consul at Naples, in a ca blegram to the state department to- day says that the Messenger of Mes sina Consulate has arrived at Naples wounded. He reports that the Chen ey family, Pierce and Lupton are all dead. The recovery of the bodies will be impossible at the present time.
 Ambassador Griscom at Rome cables that Bayard Cutting, Winthrop Chanler and Military Attache J. Lan- dis are in the earthquake district. Am bassador Griscom has postponed his own departure until the arrival of the Scorpion from Constantinople. Until he arrives at Messina, Landis will act as his personal representative. He announces that he has not yet received the names of any American tourists in the disaster.
 The President to-day received the following telegram from President Massiglia of the Italian Central Relief Committee: "The Italian Central Relief Committee is deeply moved by the spontaneous and generous man. neration of sympathy and human in- terest shown by the American people in the appalling catastrophe which has overtaker Italy, and in the sentiment of all Italians, tender to you and through you to the American nation, the expressions of their everlasting ratitude.''
 Rome Jan "A belated telegram from William H. Bishop, United States Consul at Palermo was received here to-day The message was sent yes terday MT. Bishop says it is practi- cally certain tha. American Consul Cheney at Messina is dead and that MT Lupton, the new American vice. consul at Messina, was seen shortly after the quake but has not been heard from since.
 The Pope has given another $2000GO to the relief fund, making a total gift same amount as given at the outset by King Emmanuel The Duchess If Aosta has turned her large palace at CApodimonte into a hospital. The Duke of Costa is in Reggie.
 The Archbishop of Messina was res- cued to-day from the basement of his home.
 Washington. Jan. 2.-The National Red Cross turned over to the State De- partn1ent to-day s100,000 for the Italian sufferers. made up of subscriptions to
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