The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1909-01-09
HORROR CROWS AS REPORTS
COME FROM STRICKEN CITIES
Towns Southern Italy and Sicily Visited by Earthquake and Tidal
Wave Almost Totally Destroyed Thousands Of People Losing
Their Lives-Reugees Driven Mad for Want Of Food in
Spite Of Relief Measures in Progress-Towns That
Escaped Damage Turned Into Vast Hospitals

Rome.-ln all history there has
never been known such fearful loss
of life and property, suffering and
sorrow, as was occasioncd by the
series of earthquake shocks which
visited southern Italy and Sicily on
December 2S. II will probably never
be known just how many people lost
their ives, the number being vari
100000. Estimates of the death roll
Of the earthquake now cease to con
Germ the Italian people. 1t is enough
20 know that the catastrophe is over
whelming. Figures would add moth
ing to the grief of the stricken ma.
ton, nor move to greater efforts
those upon whom the work of relief
and rescue has fallen.
The immensely of the disaster can
only be measured by the fact that
Messlna, Reggie, Palmi, Cassano, Co.
senZa, and a score of other towns
have been laid waste. and 1t Is esti.
mated that 10000 people have per,
ished in Messina and Reggie alone,
although It is hoped that many who
are counted among the lost have es-
capped.
The entire Calabrian region has
been laid waste. Following the earth
quake shocks which caused buildings
TO fall like wheat before the sickle,
fire broke out in many places. adding
its horror of destruction.
At Messina a tidal wave, thirty
feet high, swept MP the streets. hun
dIe eds of men, women and children
being caught in the furious onrush OF
the waters and drowned.
At Palmi, 1900 are reported dead ,
pt Cosenza 500; at Cassano 1000, ana
half the population of Bagnara, about
1000. The Monteleon region has
been devastated, and Biposa, Semi.
nara, San Giovanni, Scilla, Lazzaro
and Cannitello, and all other com
munes and villages on the straits are
In ruins.
Stunned at the magnitude of the
calamity which has overtaken fellow
Countrymen, all Italy mourns for the
stricken province of Calabria and the
island of Sicily. Accustomed for cen
turtles to earthquakes, Italy stands
ever in dread, but none was prepared
for the disaster which in the fraction
OF a minute on Monday devastated
cities and towns and caused the death
Of thousands.
There is the greatest danger that
n pestilence will follow the destruc
ton of the towns where, on account
Of the vast havoc wrought, bodies will
lie unburcd for days and weeks
Those who escaped death, many OF
whom are badly injured, are making
their way by the thousands to the
nearest place of refuge. Their suf
ferings even now must be intense, as
they are without food or clothing.
Time only confirms the unspeakable
horrors of the overpowering catas
trophe of the earthquake. History
perhaps never will divulge its suprem
est individual tragedies, for earth anC
sea ruthlessly claimed thousands o.
human beings, and the flames merci
lessly completed the unfinished devas
tation.
Naples, vibrant with the memory o.
| Nesu 'us, is PROSTATE anew at the
| misery and woe from Messina confid
ed to her care. The hotels and homes
are crowded with refugees, and thu
| people are vieing with one another II
aiding the stricken.
Those who have explicit knowledge
en- the subject agree that the cente
Of the cataclysm was the Strait o
Messina, which also is the center o
volcanic zone, whose highest peak
Etna, is now silent. From this bas'
the telluric disturbance extended
abating little by little northerly a
far as Cape Vaticano and southerl,
rs far as the Bay of Catania, ravagini
the western region of Calabria an
the eastern coast of Sicily for nearl!
100 miles.
Professor RicCo director of the oh
seryatory at Mount Etna, states tina
his instruments recorded forty-tw,
distinct shocks after the first, bu
that since eSrly Thursday morning
the instruments have been almost me
tionless.
Etna and Stromboli are now quiet