Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-01-07

southern italy and Sicily of the dam
sge done by earthquake and tidal
wave, the world stands aghast at the
horror of the situation.
Messina and Reggie have practi-
cally ceased to exist. In the ruins of
the former city two-thirds of the in
habitants lie buried, while at Reggie
one-half the people lost their lives.
Messina counted 10000 and Reggie
$4,000 souls.
MessIna is to be evacuated entirely
as soon as possible. The disposition
OF the dead is one of the greatest
problems confronting the authorities.
Two days spent amid the ruins OF
Messina and Reggie bring convincing
evidence that the horror of the situa-
ton in the Straits of Messina has in
no sense been exaggerated.
Messina and Reggie were not the
only towns visited by the terrible
earthquake Paint, Cosenza, Cas-
sano. and Bagnara. suffered terribly.
and In the Monteleon region, Biposa,
Seminara. San Giovanni, Scilla. Laz-
zaro and Cannitello and other vii
lagos are in ruins
The radius of ruin and death ex
tends back with decreasing intensity
fer forty miles on the main land and
for thirty miles in Sicily.
The accounts of all survivors agree
that the devastation was accomplish
ed in less than one minute. The
strata below the strait slipped along
the line of a fork. then tidal wave
rushed in and out, and all was over.
All say that when the shock came
they felt an upward thrust of the
earth, followed by an oscillatory mo
ton and the crust OF the earth vi
frated
Curious freaks of the earthquake
were everywhere to be observed.
Standing walls had fallen out expos
ing one tier of the. rooms above and
in which nothing seemed to have
been disturbed. Pictures hung
straight on the walls. lamps were on
tables and vases and flowers on man
tel pieces.
There Is reason to believe that the
devastation by earthquake in Calabria
and Sicily is not yet at an end.
Several minor shocks were expert
enced Saturday and many lettering
walls were thrown down, but it is not
known that any persons were killed
The new quakes are starting the fires
diicoA anu INC PSOPAO pAN - - ND'-~--
tton bordering on panic
During the first few days such
bodies as were recovered were lam
out In long rows for possible identih
cation, but as there were very few
cases where any of the dead were
recognized they are now being GOV
cred with quicklime when this ma
te.rial is available. Otherwise the,
are being left to decompose wher'
they are found. Now all the efforts
ere being directed to getting the sur
vivors away.
Experts who are in Messina study
ing the cause of the earthquake gen
orally agree that it was the result o
fault in the geological formation
under Messina which constituted
line of concerted volcanic action be
tween Mount vesuvius and Mt. Etna
end that slip occurred similar Z
the one which detached Sicily from
the main land Surroundings OF tn
channel in the harbor show that Il
some places the surface has risen an
in others subsidized. The British ba'
tieship Exmouth. near Reggie. foun
only fifty eight fathoms of waite
where before the earthquake Their
were 2S3.
Oficers of foreign vessels believ
that 10000 persons were killed Z
Nessina and 10000 at Reggie. Tn
areas of destruction extend thirt
miles on the north and south Goa:
of Sicily and for an equal distance o
the mainland below Radicena towar
the south.
Professor Ricco. director of the oil
servatory at Mount Etna. states tha
bis instruments recorded forty-tw
distinct shocks after the first, bt
that since early Thursday mornin
the instruments have been almost m
tioness.
Etna and Stromboli are now quie