The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-01
SURVIV0RSOF QUAKE
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mn and animals and all kirdp of pfsckage- The shores of the str&it have been, completely transformeu m headlandss have disappeared
 KinT Victor Emmanuel who lelf Msssina last night with Queen Helens' arrived this morning at ReEgto and el- tor visiting the town in company witn the Queen. re-embarked on warsnip and sent the following wireless fels- gram to Premier Giolitfi:
 Return from Reggie, which founo in sa condition no less disastro1s than that st Messina. The prefect sf Reg Rfor says fha. grave injury haA been d3ne to the communes of his province.
 "A Russian warship with 500 wound sA on board win arrive at Naples tnis r1orninr and everything must De pre- uared for their landing and housing. Another Russian ship will carry wounded to syracuse. It s -oesirso,e to provide at Naples q Hussisn sn,p with an abundance of meo'c~i sp A Refuxee's story.
 Tho Marquis vincenzo Genoez' . refugse from PalmL near keggio
 teiiifg of his experience at the tine v the earfhouake. says that he wss awahened by . tremendous roar ana 4 severe shock. It seemed as thougn the house was whiriing round like tne wiurs of . windmill. The wall, ct nls dwel1ing cracked and through t c.9 but lunin3ured, the Marquis tried to es- cake to the streets, but at nrst ne found this impossible. as the stairs mad collapred with the first shock. Finally after numerous efforts. he succeeded ln rettfne out of q window and descend- inx to the ground from the, third story by means of rope. ..-
 walking, he says. was dimcuil oW inx to the fact that the streets were hiied with debris. He helped m Lns work of rescue and in short time had assisted in dragging from beneasn the ruins in the street eighty-six per. sons. All of them dead. The faces or everyone of. them, he says. showed the agony they suffered in death. Many of them had their arms across tneir faces. as though to protect themselves from the falling debris. '
 -1t was necessary to release the prs onsrs at Palmi and many of mem seo7 ceeded in making their escape.
 The Marquis Genoez said he tried in avery way to enter the town or Rexxio but his efforts were useless. ne acrr,s,ared Mondays earth shock with the dIsturbances of 1884 and 1905 and said 1t was immeasurably worse, Tn fact, he declared, Paimi was absoluteiy destroyed.
 MIST IGNORE THE DEAD
 AND AID THE LIVING.
 Rome. Dec. 51.--Estimates Of tne' death roll of the earthquake now ceases to concern the Italian people IL i~ enough to know that the catastropne is overwhelming. Figures would aoo nothing to the grief of the stricken nation, nor move to greater enorts those upon whom the work or rehet Fyery channel open to the Govern. rssnt has been utilized to this eua. and other nations have been quick 70 come to its assistsncs even before tne
 ship loads of fusitiyes have been carried out of the stricken gone 70 Naples. Palermo. Catanaia and other nsrts. and according to the Minister ss Marins. rescue vessels to the num- bar of thirty-six are now centered m the Strait of Messina. and 5000 soldters are beinr landed on the two coasts.
 Most important of all now Is the ouestion of the living. Thousands of those who escaped the falling walls and the sweep of the tide. are stary- irx and without clothes or shelter, In0X4 sufferinga. The drst thought has been 10 carry food and covering for these helpless people, and 1t has now been decided i1y the Government to send fleet If efiligrant steamers to transport them to other places.
 The latest reports received at Rome state that there have been many ats1- mittent shocks. following the first. 10 which the greater part of the destruc- ion Ia AfvEfhfH1Bn. -t
 The British warship Minerva re- ported by wf&reless to Malta that two severe shocks occurred at Messina last night t
 Pyofsssor Riccio, director of the, Observatory at Mount Aetna. states that his instruments have , recorded Sorty-two distinct shocks after the first. but during the last fourteen hours they have been almost motionless. Aetna and Stromboli are now quiet, and he is certain that the eartnquake was not, of volcanic, but geologicai origin, similar to thet of l7S6.
 The AmeFfcnn Ambassador. M
 Lloyd C. Griscom. the American Am bassador, will leave here tomorrow and win proceed to Messina and other places in the south in .an Italfan war ahif in search of information concern ing missing Americans. It has been found impossible to obtain udings of the whereabouts of foreigners supposed to have been in the zone about whom Anquifies have been made to the Cove m&Aszsns'