The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1909-01-01
10000 Die
IN ITALYS
DISASTER
Appalling Results Of
Earthquake.
MANY CITIES IN RUINS
Only Few Thousand Of ReggiO's
Population Escaped.
DESTRUCTION is WIDESPREAD
Activity of Mount Etna Adds to
Terror Of People.
DESTRUCTION is WIDESPREAD
Activity of Mount Etna Adds to
Terror Of People.

The Rome Tribuna publishes tele-
gram from Messina saying the deaths
from the earthquake and tidal wave
on the eastern half of the island of
Sicily and the department of CalaDria,
Italy, will reach $4,000. The dead at
Messina number 10000.
Scores still are alive beneath the
ruins of the city. Owing to the in
adequacy of the means of rescue at
hand it will be impossible to reach
these people and bring them out alive
All dispatches received here place
the dead at Messina at appalling fig
ureS.
Few Escape in City of $4,000.
Advices from Catanzaro say that
only a few thousand out of the entire
population of Reggie have escaped
death or injury The population of
Reggie is placed at about $4,000 per-
sons by the best authorities. The city
is eight miles south of Messina.
Lieutenant General Fiera Di Cossat-
to has ordered that all hooters and rob-
be instituted in the earthquake zone.
Mount Etna is showing considerable
activity, and the detonations, which
can be heard plainly in this city, to-
gether with the volume of smoke roll
ing out of the crater, have added to
the panic of the people.
List of the Stricken Towns.
The following cities and towns have
suffered by the earthquake and tidal
wave:
Messina, Sicily-Population $4,000,
wrecked by earthquake and swept by
tidal wave; loss of life enormous
Cantania-Third largest town in
Sicily; in ruins
Palermo, Sicily-Ten miles north
west of Catania at foot of Mount Eft
ma; population, $4,000; a heap OF
smQldering ruins.
Vittoria, Sicily-Town of $1,000, on
the Camarino river; wrecked.
Marc, Sicily-Population IL 900; half
destroyed.
Ali-Fifteen miles southwest of Mes
sina, one Of the most ancient towns
in island; population. $500; badly
damaged.
Mineo, Sicily Ninety-six miles
northwest of Cantania, badly damaged.
Patton the north coast of Sicily;
wrecked.
Population, 1900; twelve
miles southwest of Milazzo, badly
wrecked.
Palmi, Calabria-On the southwest
coast; population, $4,000; in ruins.
Reggie, Calabria-Population So
boo; across the Strait of Messina from
the city of Messina; reported COM
pletely destroyed.
Scilla, Calabria - RepoT ed de-
stroyed.
Bagnara-Sixteen miles nc, theast of
Reggio; population, 1000; reported
wiped out.
DesoIatic,n In Messina.
Messina, which was swept by tidal
wave, is a scene of desolation. A large
section of the city is reported wipeu
out. Among those lost was Com
mander PASSING of the Italian navy.
and a body of men whom he had led
ashore as rescue party from his ship
the Barbor, after the first shock.
Calabrian towns, Palmi, Reggie
Scilla and Bagnara, are reported to
have been destroyed completely, being
now merely masses of ruins. Many
hundreds of persons were killed or in
jured in each place. 1t is reported
that Reggie met he same fate as Mes
sina
Pope Greatly Distressed.
The pope was greatly distressed al
hearing of the scourge that had af
f1icted the loyal population in th'
south He could hardly credit the
truth of the dispatches describing the
devastation and fatalities ten times
greater than in 1905.