The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-01-05
THOUSANDS ARE
LAID TO REST IN
RUINED MESS|NA
Quick Lime Being Rapidly
Spread and From Now on
There Will Be No Further
Search for Bodies.
MANY QUAKE SURVIVORS
HAVE BEEN LIBERATED
Vatican at Rome Transformed
Into Hospital and the Pope
Personally Looks After the
Care of Injured.

Messina, Jan. 5-Earthquake shocks
continue to be felt but are gradually
becoming weaker. Over fourteen
thousand bodies have been buried here
and fully ten thousand refugees have
departed the town. There has been
practically no excavating for dead bod
les, and quicklime is being freely used
On the wreckage wherever 1t Is practi-
cally sure there are none living be-
persons alive, have been relieved from
the ruins during the past twenty-four
ing for help. Reggie is practically
evacuated except for soldiers and ma
rines, these latter having done heroic
work in getting the populace to fee
from the scene of disaster. Rescue
work will have been finished in a few
days and then the wreckage will be
razed. The estimate of two hundred
thousand as the total number OF deaths
Is still adhered to.
Vatican Hospital.
Rome, Jan. 5.-The doors of the Va
tican were thrown open yesterday to
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 disas-
ter was never better exemplified than
when the application for admittance
into the sacred precincts of the Vati
can was made by Mayor Nathan, who
ls not only non-Catholic. but who
was formerly grand master of the
italian Free Masons, an organization
that has carried on a constant strug-
gle against the power of the Pope.
When he telephoned his request to
the Vatican he not only received an
affirmative reply but the survivors
Z from Messina and Reggie were re-
ceived with open arms.
The first 120 Of the wounded sent
to the Vatican yesterday were receiv
ed at the railroad station by Mgr
Misitally. sent especially by the Pope
Some of them were taken to the Va
tican in public conveyances, but the
more grievously injured were carried
on stretchers by the Red Cross. They
were received at the Vatican pre-
cincts by the nursing sisters.
The Pope could not restrain his de
sire to bring them consolation ant
sought them out He passed through
the basilica of st. Peters over the
area connecting the basilica with the
hospital Although he did not actual
ly set foot on Italian territory he il
reality went outside that area which
under the law. is guaranteed and en-
joys the right Of extra-territoriality
The hospital belonging to the Pope
stands on Italian ground.
The Pope's entrance into the hos
pital was the sign for an ontburst o
emotion, not only on the part of the
patients. but even from the Pope him
self and the members of his suite
Many of those who were not gravel,
wounded insisted on jumping out %
bed to kneel and kiss the pontiff''
hand. The Pope spoke consolingly Il
each unfortunate. He said that sine,
the earthquake he had lived only t,
thinkaof them and study the bes
means of helping them. All his pray
ers to the almighty had imploret
mercy, clemency and power to under
60 the terrible strain. rising up agail
through the comfort of religion.