Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-01-07

Messina. Jan. 5.--!Thc first cases OF
typhoid fever have broken out here.
This fact will cause drastic action Vi
be taken Immediately for the disposal
of the dead. Til, ope Of rescuing any
| more Of the living beneath the ruins
has been abandoned.
Earth shocks are continuing here.
although they are diminishing in in.
tensity. At night especially are they
frequently felt. The fires in the city
are being gradually extinguished.
/ Thirty thousand rations were dis
/ tributed yesterday The official figures
complied thus far show that $4,000
bodies have been buried in four GEM
! eteries, that 5000 refugees have left
the city and that 5000 persons still
remain mere.
Reggie Loss Not So Great.
An Associated Press correspondent
has made visit to Reggie and care
! fully inspected the town. 1t has
| been found that the number of per-
sons killed there and the DANCE done
to property we're much less than at
Messina. Only the central section
of the city was damaged. About 5000
troops are working there. Official
figures place the wounded at 1000
and the refugees at 1000. The num-
Der of dead in the ruins is not known.
Reggie has been practically evacuated
except for troops. The marines from
| two British warships are causing the
populace to evacuate.
Il @t Living Taken From Ruins.
I From the villa San Giovanni, which
is considered to have been the center
of the earthquake, numerous per-
sons still living weretaken today from
beneath the ruins, while the voices OF
others could be distincly heard APP
pealing for aid Within a few days
the rescue work at Reggie will have
ceased. Then the lettering building
| will be RACED and the bodies that have
not been buried will be burned.
Vatican Thrown Open.
Rome, Jan. 5.-The doors Of the
Vatican were thrown open yesterday
to 800 miserable sufferers from the
earthquake district and the pope in
person came to the bedside of each of
his unfortunate brothers to bless them
and comfort them in their trouble.
The universal brotherhood of man
spoken Of by Archbishop Ireland of ST
Paul in connection with the disaster
was never better exempted than
when the application for admittance
into the sacred pracincts of the Va
tican was made by Mayor Nathan, who
is not. only non-Catholic, but who
evil nd Of tIo
italian Free Masons, an organization
that has carried on constant struggle
against the power of the pope.
When he telephoned his request to
the Vatican he not only received an
affirmative reply but the survivors
from Messina and Reggie were re-
ceived with open arms.
The first 120 Of the wounded sent
to the Vatican yesterday morning
We're received at the railroad station
by Mgr. Misitally. sent especially by
the pope. Some Of them were taken
80 the Vatican in public conveyances
but the more grevously injured were
carried on stretchers by the Red
! Cross. They were seceived at the
! Vatican precincts by the nursing sis
! ters
The pope could not restrain his de
F; sire to bring them consolation and
sought them out He PASSED through
The basilica Of ST. Peters over the
| area connecting the bssilica Will, the
hospital Although he did not actually
/ sci foot IN italian territory. he ir
reality Went outside that area which
under the Law, is guaranteed and en
/ JOYS the right of extraordinarily
/ The hospital belongs to the pope and
! stands on Italian ground.