Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-02
RELIEF BEGINS
TO ARRIVE FOR
NEEDY ITALIANS
MANY AIDED, BUT THOUSANDS
STILL STARVING
TROOPS ESTABLISH SEMBLANcE
or ORDER AT MEssINA
Many Cities of United States Raise
Large Sums-Graphic Tales I'm
fold Details of Awful
CatacIysm
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Reggie, adding them to Catania and
Catanzaro respectively.
A dispatch from Catania says that it
is proposed to build a new suburb to
that city and christen it Messina, quar-
tering therein all the survivors of the
fallen city.
The duchess of Aosta, who still
proudly signs herself a princess of
France, is performing miracles of love,
pity and endurance at Naples, where
the wounded are arriving in great
numbers.
This noble woman has given not only
pecuniary help, but has nursed the
injured with demonstrations of affec-
ton. Children robbed by a cruel fate
of their parents and relatives have
found in this princess a new and ten
der mother.
Several little children have been con-
veyed by the duchess in her motor car
from bare and cherries hospitals to
her royal palace at Capo Dimonte.
Both Helena, the queen, and Helena,
the duchess of Aosta, were born on
foreign soil, but today the people of
Italy worship them for their love and
devotion and the unselfish service to
the stricken sufferers given by these
two women of high lineage which
have made them doubly dear to all
Italians.
There is mourning throughout Italy.
From the Capitoline tower to the pin
nacles of the Milan cathedral, from the
shrine of Monreal to the cathedral of
s.. Marie at Venice, the tri-color is at
half mast, an expression of the uni
versal sorrow.
Many Religious PROFESSIONS
The national grief is manifested also
by numberless religious professions
and the collecting Of money, clothes
and medical supplies for the relief of
the stricken.
Naples, owing to the arrival of sew
eraI thousand wounded, has had great
er opportunity than her sister cities
to demonstrate her generosity, and the
people have responded with true south
ern feeling.
The members of the aristocracy have
loaned their motor cars and carriages
for the transportation of the injured
from the docks to the hospitals, and
when the different modes Of transpor-
tation were insufficient, the other
cl sses have come forward offering all
they have, strong arms to carry the
aaszolitax beggar went to the bar
piSed to help.
given an injured child and
q ~ carried his burden to hos
and deposited it on a bed in
gowded ward. He then returned to
the Jiochs, seeking further merciful en-
ployment.
An old woman enveloped in a shawl
was carried through the streets by
sturdy, barefooted fisherman. The
crowd divided respectfully to make
them a passage, and many eyes filled
with tears at the sight.
The British and Russian sailors
worked so devotedly that Messina re-
CARDS them heroes of the day. When
ever they pass through the streets of
Naples hats and caps are raised in
their honor.
Recalls Old Prophecy
The desolation of the Straits of Mes
sina recalls the sinister prophecy found
in an old Sicilian legend, 'The day will
come
The oracle answered a questioner,
'fWhen the navigator will make his way
through the strait, saying Here once
was Sicily"
To the destruction of Messina, Reg
gio, Santaefnia, Bagnara, Palmi and
Seminira must be added the following
towns and villages: Castellate, Polls
tena, Cirque Prondi, Mammertina, Sim
poll San Procopio, Pizziconi, Stefano-
conf, Catana, ROsato and Scilla. These
places are no more.
The presence of the king and queen of
Italy in the stricken district undoubt-
edly has done much to infuse energy
into the different relief committees
Considering the means at the dis
posal of the rescue workers, wonders
are being done.
The queen looks far from well. She
III
she has witnessed have affected her
strongly.
She weeps frequently, and on more
than one occasion she has covered the
hands of some unfortunate woman with
her tears.
The king desired the queen to return
to Rome. but this she refused to do,
saying she could not sleep from think
ing of the misery of her subjects. By
remaining on the spot she feels she
can do something to relieve the general
misery.
Newspaper Men Numerous
Trains leaving here for the south are
filled almost entirely with newspaper
men. relatives of victims or volunteers
on rescue committees.
These committees are composed of
every nationality of Europe. Some of
the volunteers do not speak a word of
Italian, but they go forward simply
because they have hands with which to
work
All volunteers are thankfully ac-
cepted, and there is need for thousands
more.
Prof. Alfani of the Florence observa-
tory predicts that the seismic activities
will continue for three years to come.
He recommends the enforcement of re-
strictive building laws in the earth
quake zones of Italy.
The personal accounts Of survivors
obtained today all go to confirm the
first reports of the extent of the dis
aster, and they but add to the grue-
some recital of suffering and pathetic
inability to help the injured.
One feature of the disaster at Reg
gio is the large number of homeless
were found creeping about in the ruins
and it seems impossible to restore them
to their parents, even If the parents
are alive.
A sailor who went ashore at Reggie
relates that during his work of rescue
he was attracted by a sound Of infant
voices. Looking under a fallen beam
he found twins about year old in
a, basket. They were uninjured and
their clothing was of the best. They
have not yet been claimed.
At many places survivors recovered
consciousness to find themselves far
away from the scene of the disaster.
Larger numbers of survivors have be-
come insane. They try to throw them
selves overheard if they are at sea,
or to hurl themselves out of car win
doWs. One poor woman relates that