The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-01-04
MRS. Joanna
ESCAPED THE
EARTHQUAKE
Was Just Outside the Zone of
Disturbance When Calam-
ity Came
AMERICA EXTENDS THE HELPING
HAND TO SUFFERING HUMANITY
President Asks for and Congress Will
Grant Half a Million Dollars to
Save the Starving Earthquake Vic.
tims-Win Use Navy.

Rome, Jan. 4.-Mrs. 8. A. McCanna
of McCanna, North Dakota, and her
niece, Miss Agnes Feeney of Rochest-
er, Minn., who were thought to have
been among the earthquake victims,
are both safe. They had sailed from
Toarmina few hours before the
shock and were outside the earth
quake zone.
Half a Million.
Washington, Jan. 4.-Presiient
Roosevelt in message to congress
today asked for direct appropriation
of half a million dollars for the re-
lief of the stricken people in the
earthquake zone of Italy. This, the
most generous fund ever contributed
by the American people for the sue
cor of the sufferers in other lands, is
to supplement the dispatch of the
supply ships Celtic from New York
and Culoga from Port Said for Mes
sina with their big cargoes of neces-
saries, originally intended for the
American fleet and diverted to the
immediate use of the Italian victims.
1t also supplements the presidents
proffer of the services of the entire
American fleet of sixteen battleships,
whose use in whole or in part
hinged only on the acceptance or
declination Of the Italian government.
The message was brief and plans
have been made for the immediate en-
actment into law Of its recommends
tions.
Resolutions introduced.
Resolutions were introduced today
In the senate and house providing for
the appropriation Of S50O,OO0 for the
Italian relief. Thffr resolutions pro-
vided that the mdney shall be used
for the provisions, clothing, medicines
and other necessary articles and the
president is authorized to employ any
vessels of the United States navy or
to charter and employ other suitable
steamships or vessels to carry out the
purposes Of this government.
More Disasters Possible
Messina, Jan. 4-Frank Parret of
Brooklyn, assistant to Prof. Matteuc-
ci, director of the royal observatory
on Mount Vesuvius, speaking of the
disaster here and in Calabria, says
that other shocks are inevitable, as
there is a flaw in the earth's crust
where the slip occurred. He predicts
heavier shocks for Tuesday and de-
clares that something, possibly very
serious, may happen January and
when the relative positions of the
sun and moon will produce the great
est strain.
Saturday morning fire broke out
again in the municipal building. The
city records were consumed and the
high wind carried the burning papers
far into the air and scattering them
over the warships in the harbor. The
fire communicated to the building of
the Bank of Italy where $4,000 lires
in paper money was stored. Energetic
efforts of the flremen and sailors, how
ever, served to control the flames and
the money was removed to the war
ships. Saturday night at Q o'clock
there was a fresh earthquake shock
and panic ensued ashore and on
board ship. Many of the tottering
walls fell but no fatalities were re-
ported. There have been a score of
tremors since the disaster of last
Monday morning but this one was dis
tinctly perceptible. After this shock
the fire in the municipal building
famed up again and was burning
fiercely when this dispatch was
sent.