Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-06
ORDERED FROM HOMES
All Survivors to Leave Earth
quake Region.
SYSTEM IN RELIEF WORK
Government Measures Bringing
Order Out of Chaos.
GLAD TO GET OUR TENTS
Culgoa's Cargo Will Enable Sur
vivors to Camp in the Open-Ap-
peals From Villages.
GLAD TO GET OUR TENTS

ROME. January 6-Every hour now
sees progress in bringing order into the
earthquake district and system into the
work OF relief. The government has in
structed Lieut.. Gen. Francesca Mazza,
commander of the province. to remove
temporarily all the living in the destroyed
cities and towns. SO that they may he
properly cared for. The tents which the
American supply ship Culgoa is under
stood to be bringing will he most well
come for sheltering the survivors in
camps. The Italian war department also
Is sending large quantities of field equip
ment for use In bivouacing in the open.
The repopulation will be through sur
V1vors proving their rights to property
under special enactments. which parlia-
ment will be asked by the cabinet to pass
at the extraordinary sittings called for
Friday and Saturday.
The cabinet meets daily under the presi-
dency of Premier Giolitti. 1t Is proposed
to ask parliament to increase the tax on
buildings by $500 900.
The rigid measures that the authorities
are enforcing in the earthquake region
cause considerable complaint. especially in
Reggie. where it is affirmed large relief
expeditions consisting of soldiers. doctors
and carpenters were obliged to wait
aboard vessels in the roadstead for tweu-
ty-four hours before being allowed to dis
embark. The administration of relief i'm
the Calabrian district has been unable on
account of the bad condition of the roads.
to deliver food to various villages from
fifteen to twenty miles in the interior
Couriers have brought to Reggie urgent
appeals for help for the population OF
these towns, who are starving.
Typhoid Fever Spreading.
The fret fo nF
were reported at Messina yesterday. and
today the number of those affected by
the fever rose with a bound. The Ital-
ian. government is redoublng its efforts
to remove all survivors from the scene
of the earthquake
1t is feared that all the water supplies.
save those of the ships in Messtna har-
Dor, are contaminated. The ruin wrought
in the countryside has reached the
pollution of streams that would ordi-
narily be wholesome. The people are
forced to drink of the infected water sup
plies. for there is no other alternative.
There remain 5000 inhabitants In Mes
sina. whom the ships have not yet been
able to move away. Some 900 survivors
many of them injured. have been re-
moved to Naples. Rome and other refugee
points. The work of clearing the city OF
its destitute survivors has thus been
about half completed. At Reggie the
number of refugees is about 1900. Much
fewer of them have been removed from
the site of their former homes than at
Messina. Between 10000 and 10000 in
habtants of Messina remain unaccounted
for, save in the unfigured death total
Still Alive in Ruins.
The latest reports from Messina tell
that even now. nine days after the earth
quake. persons are being taken alive out
Of the ruins Nearly a dozen were res
rued yesterday. Some of them were at
the point of death from injuries and ex-
but several will proba bly, live
Among those surviving so long without
food or water great part were persons
or advanced age. These showed a great
er power of endurance. the rescuers
found. than the younger and apparently
more vigorous.
The earthquake shocks continue to he
[elt I'm Messina at short intervals Severe
shocks are. felt daily. The continuance
)f the earthquakes gives evidence that the
disturbance is still far from over. Many
opinions are heard TO the effect that other
destructive shocks are likely to come and
complete the demolition of whatever the
of December oS left standing
opinions of students Of the seismic cOndi-
ions of the regions recall that i'm the
great disturbance of 1873. in all respects
loosely similar to the present, a second
destructive shock followed a month after
he first. and after two months third. OF
great violence and wide extent. The
that has existed thus far. II is
cared. may yet be carried out Physi-
'ians report from Messina that, added to
he incipient typhoid. there is a grave
LANCER of an epidemic OF dysentery.
Many Die in Transit.
efugees. The current reports from Naples
how that misfortune has not quit the
Unhappy survivors even with their re-
noval from the scene of the disaster On
hip after ship arriving at Naples is re-
orted heavy mortality during the transit
nd many burials at sea. The transfer
o Naples has meant unavoidable hours of
Misery for the sufferers. Crowded condi-
ions on board. the presence Of many
lck and desperately injured, sthe dearth
nurses and medical facilities. have con-
ributed to make the voyages terrible
From Naples come many accounts Of
he misery of the survivors. All mourn
elatives and friends Many are the sin
lie remaining members of entire families
ONE exist In the disturbing uncertainty
'hether their nearest have survived. and
I the hopeless confusion among the ref
gees ii is not possible to learn news even
here the survival of the ones sought for
probable.
The Queen of Italy. it is reported. has
OF ceased working for the sufferers. with
er return to Rome. She has esta blished
n enormous clothing workshop in the
alace. where women of the aristocracy
leir days together laboring for the suf-
erers, making necessary garments for
he destitute. The queen sets an example
y working the full day at the same labor
S the rest. Her demand for helpers has
let with an enthusiastic response from
lie women of Rome.
Kings Coat Covered Child.
The commander of the battleship Re
mberto. who was attached to the kings
lite while the latter was at Messina
Ills many stories of the kindness and
ravery of the king and queen. little
ri VINO had been rescued from the ruins
as being carried past the king when he
,ticed that she was shivering with the
I'D. He insisted covering the child
ith his own coat. remaining himself exc
'sed to the cold for some hours. The
leen worked increasingly and sleeplessly
le would go to the bedside OF injured
ildren and calm and comfort them. tell.
g them stories and asking them to call
r mother"
Hundreds of applications for permission
adopt children orphaned by the earth.
ake are coming in.
The Archbishop of Messina. in the pres
ce OF a number OF soldiers. sailors and
rvivors. today mounted to the roof OF q
Hiding and gave his benediction in aR.
'ulo mortis to people who might b ~
ried In the ruins.