Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1909-01-06

Naples and Caserta at the disposition
OF the injured.
Vessels loaded with refugees con-
tinue to stream into Naples and Paler.
mo. and each day sees the arrival Of
additional steamers in the Straits of
Messina. 1t is the governments in
tention to remove all the survivors
possible to the various ports in Italy.
Refugees on the March
The road between Catania and Mes
sina is filed with refugees. There
are crowds of them at every station
of the railroad, and they are pouring
into the main highways from outly-
ing villages, hamlets and huts. Some
of them stagger along overloaded with
their. most precious possessions; 9th
ers are driving before them a donkey
or a COW weighted down by the load OF
household goods on its back, While
still others are accompanied by a
sheep OF a few goats, or perhaps a
faithful dog.
Dat vast majority of the surviy-
ors have saved nothing. All their
possessions are on their backs in the
shafe of tattered clothing, and in
many cases even these garments only
partially cover their owners.
The survivors, one and all, tell
awful tales of death and destruction.
They say that there are undoubtedly
still living people trapped in the
ruins OF the smaller villages that
that iiave not been carefully searched
that CHEERS are straying along the
beach, and that still others are high
up in the mountains. Many people
fed to the high land to escape the
waters.
1t is hard to believe that there are
still living souls in the wreckage.
Death would be preferable to their
agony and suffering.
QuckIime Used on the Dead
AS an instance of his quick grasp
of the situation King Victor Emman
uel soon afterhis arrival at Messina
wired to Premier Giolitti: "Send ships
and men; above all, send ships loaded
with quicNlime.
So far as has been possible quick
lime hss been used on the dead, but
many bodies have been burned and
Others buried. In the relief work the
offers and men of the foreign war
Slips have been untiring, and their
courage is beyond words. The crew
of the British cruiser Drake gave up
everything they possessed for the
benefit Of the refugees, and practi
cally forgot rest and sleep for more
than thirty-six hours in their devotion
to duty.
Reports are published that it is
the kings intention to sell his prop
erty in Sicily and devote the proceeds
to the assistance of the sufferers A
dispatch from Catania says that it is
proposed to build a new suburb to
that city and christen it Messina,
quartering therein all the survivors of
the fallen city.
Eg-~~'i2E1 ere7kina Persons Escape
While nothing yet is definitely
known concerning the Americans
supposed, to have been in Messina at
the time of the earthquake, it is
learned that a party Of twenty Eng
fish speaking persons, which may
have included some Americans, made
their escape, crossing a large tract
of country, which was not harmed
by the shocks, in the direction Of
Palermo.
Soldiers have been called from the
rescue work at Messina to quell dis
tul bances in the surrounding vii
lagos, where the survivors were in
a state Of riot because assistance had
NOT been given them. They could not
understand the impossibility of sue
coring all Immediately and providing
the needy thousands with food and
shelter. On the arrival of the SOL
diers, however, the disturbances soon
ended the peasants being speedily
suEdued.