Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-06
SEVERE QUAKES
RAzE WALLS OF
STRICKEN CITIES
DEADLY PLAGUE BREAKS OUT
IN MESSINA
FEARFUL PANlcs FOLLOW REP.
ETITIoN OF TEMaLoRa
Thirteen Thousand Refugees Arrive
at NapIes-Fifty Per Cent Of
Victims Saved from Ruins
Die Later
D ONE, Jan. 5.-The report from

ID OME' Jan. 5.-The report from
M MeSSlna that typhoid fever has
OloAeh out there has filed the
authorities with alarm and appreben-
sion. 'Ppi 0liell-
1t is realized here that unless nroro,
sanitary precautions are taken at once
'ne disease may spread far outside thu
ruined district.
daIT "a 49, tii1 ; uakes occurred at Reggie to-
uoy dI intervals of twenty Minutes
= noon quake stronger than +ha
IN T3uSed number of the stand
IIS WaIIS to collapse, and created :,
terrible panic among the survivors
casualties. were any
Earthquake shocks also are continu-
ing at Messina.
me oThclal figures compiled thus far
snow that $4,000 have been hnriad -
Ihe cemeteries; that 5000 refugees ba[Ja
Ie1t the city, and that 5000 persons still
remain here 0'Ill
instead of eNcavating in an endea,7o,.
to find the bodies buried beneatb tba
runs, It has been proposed that everv
mouse IN which it is believed persons
are buried shall be covered with o11ick-
lime WIN q'ich-
hAug victor Emmanuel received TO
DAY AmbassOr Griscom. who nresanted
MIN with the steamer Bayern in the
AeIIe OF the American relief committee
tePTesentlng the American people
Inc Bayern is loaded with provisions
and medical supplies. and is ready to
proceed to the strait of Messina. The
KING was greatly pleased, and said that
the Americans were always first.
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Thirteen thousand refugees have ar
rived at Naples, Of which number 5000
are injured. They are receiving tbe
best of care, but many have died of
thelr injuries, and others have gone
mad. 7'0
More than 80 per cent of those taken
out Of the ruins after three days did
not have strength left to survive
Inc United States gunboat Scorpion
IeIt Naples today, carrying supplies.
principally sterilized milk, for distri-
petloh at Messina under the direction
OF the American consulate
The American vice consul. Smart
LuptOn, in answer to inquiries made
oy the state department at Washing
ton, telegraphed from Messina that
the mouse of the Little Sisters of the
Poor was destroyed. Two Of the sis
terS-Natalia San FilIippa and Cine
Z
The others, twenty-four in number.
are des1rous of going to Milan but
Whether they can do so is uncertain
Rear Admiral Sperry, commander Of
the American battleship fleet, has noti-
he'd the authorities here that he will he
IN Naples on January 10 with the first
battalion, composed of the Connecti-
cut, Vermont, Minnesota and Vermont.
Conditions at Reggie
The last news from Reggio shows
that the earthquakes today were about
twenty minutes apart. One of the
heaVy shocks caused the collapse Of a
number Of broken walls and added to
the terror of the few survivors who
remained there.
The official figures place the wounded
at Reggie at 1000 and the refugees at
1000. The number of dead in the ruins
is not known.
Reggie has been practically evacu-
ated except for the troops and the
marines from two British warships
VINO are causing the pOpulace to
eVacuate villas in Giovanni, which is
considered to have been the center OF
the earthquake.
Numerous persons still living were
taken today from beneath the ruins,
while the voices of others could be dis
tinctly heard appealing for aid.
Within few days the rescue work at
Reggie will have ceased Then the
totter1ng buildings will be razed and
the bodies that have not been buried
will be burned.
The Associated Press had the first
correspondent on the scene at Messina.
listing.
The first shock of earthquake virtu-
ally had thrown down the entire city.
The Italian soldiers were overwheIned
and in state of bewilderment wan
dered over the ruins in squads num-
ber1ng from three to fifty men. Little
work was done until the arrival of
crews from the Russian and British
Warshfps, which worked valiantly.
Especially was this true of the Rus
slams.
Bodies Lie Everywhere
The bodies Of the dead lay every
where on the surface of the ruins ana
limbs protruded here and there from
the wreckage.
The small 1rst-aid stations were over
crowded with injured, lad scores of
others were hastily est sshed as soon
as possible by relief cor &from Italian
cities and the Russians French and
British and German warships
Large numbers of the survivors were
crazed by fright, and panic seemed to
have laid hold Of ALL
In the camp or the refugees piteouS
scenes were enacted. Many, persons
threw themselves upon their knees beg
ging for bread, while five minutes walk
beyond were orange groves rich&with
ripe fruit. &M@
The fear for safely seemed to hold
them petrifed in this small haven Of
refuge.
Constant light shocks followed the
first great disturbance until forty-five
were recorded. The Associated Press
correspondent saw one Of them throw
down many of the remaining walls of
the city, the ensuing crash greatly in
tensifying the panic Of the populace.
The first Italian troops to reach Mes
sina were largely from the Sicilian gar
rison and commanded by Sicilian of
ficers.
Scores of them had lost relatives or
friends.
One officer said he had lost seventeen
relatives-all his children, his wife,
father, mother, brothers and sisters;
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