The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-01-06
Etna, StrOmbOIi and
VeSuviuS Active.
TERROR IN CITIES.
Survivors ClamOr to Be
Taken to North.



pIetsd, as Thousands Of Bodies Lie In
Ruins Which Are Inaccessible to Re.
lief and Rescue Particularly Hun
dreds Of Living Persons Also Said to
Be In the Wrecked Buildings In Mes
sina-Praise For the Work Of Rus
sian SaiIors--Many Of the Wounded
Taken Care of at the Vatican.
Rome, Jan. 5.-The worst fears are
aroused by the outbreak of the volca-
noes Etna, Stromboli and Vesuvius in
fresh eruption.
Terror has seized upon thousands Of
survivors in stricken cities and towns,
and they clamor for transport to the
north.
Renewed shocks of earthquake oc-
Cured today in Messina and the sur
rounding district. The motion from
them seemed to be vertical. =
People at Messina are in terror now
of a new shock, which they fear will
come and complete the work of that
of week ago.
The shocks that have continued at
brief intervals since the first and most
destructive are now increasing again
in violence. A severe quake, central in
southwestern Sicily, drove the inhab
itants out from their shelters.
Prime Minister Giolette has issued a
statement that about $4,000 bodies
have been buried by relief parties in
Messina and Reggie, but the work of
burial is not half completed. Thou
sands caught in the ruins are still in
accessible.
There are still hundreds of living
people under the ruins of Messina. A
few were taken out today, but they
cannot survive. The crews of the
Russian squadron have labored with
out rest, and not few of the sailors
have been killed or injured in the per-
formance Of heroic services.
The brunt of the work of rescue has
fallen upon the sailors, foreigners as
well as Italian, and all have done their
duty nobly. Praises Of the Russians
are on every lip. They hesitate be-
fore no danger, digging under totter-
ing walls or entering the unsafest
shells when asked to do so by some
frantic woman who had not lost all
hope that husband or child was still
alive.
The streets of the wrecked city are
piled twenty or thirty feet high with
debris. 1t is a wilderness of ruin a
mile wide and two miles long. Beau
tiful churches, splendid villas in the
foothills, hospitals, barracks and the
university all shared the common lot.
Two-thirds of the magnificent Norman
cathedrals, the pride of Messina, is in
ruins, and little or nothing remains
of the relics of Phoenician, Greek,
Roman and Saracin architecture.
Here and there salvage parties are
at work digging at the instance of
some distracted wife or mother who
imagined she heard a voice, but usual
ly there is no echo to the pathetic
calling. One party was trying to dig
out girl whose crying could be heard
plainly, but there was sudden cave
in and thereafter silence.
In many places bloated and decom-
posing arms and legs protrude from
heaps Of masonry and plaster.
are everywhere to be observed. Stand
ing walls have fallen out, exposing
one tier Of rooms above another, in
which nothing seems to have been dis
turbed. Pictures hang straight on the
walls, lamps were on tables and vases
and flowers on mantelpieces.
The buildings that best resisted the
shock were the old royal palace, now
the prefecture, and the archbishop's
palace, where ten of the inmates lost
their lives.
Although the air in Messina is
heavy with the stencil of purifying
bodies, several groups of Sicilians
have camped out in the cleared spaces
of the city and obstinately refuse the
invitation Of the authorities to move
away.
The universal brotherhood spoken Of
by Archbishop Ireland Of st. Paul was
further emphasized in Rome today
when upon the arrival of 1900 wound
ed from Messina and Reggie Mayor