The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1909-01-08
QUAKE ZONE IN
STATE OF SEICE
Cars Containing Refugees
IRE TelescOped.
MORE SHOCKS PREDICTED

Expert Frank Perret Says There Is
Flaw in the Earth's Crust--Many
Looters at Messina and Reggie Shot
Down by SoIdiers-Scum of Europe's
Criminal Class FIocks to the Scene
of Disaster to Carry on Their Ne
farious Work.
1t is reported that six Russian sail
ors have been shot by hooters at Mes
sina and that sixteen criminals have
been killed at the same place within
the last twenty-four hours.
Six hundred persons engaged in pill
Laying have been arrested.
In an engagement at Reggie be-
tween the police and bandits two of
the police were killed.
Reports still reach here of the con-
tinuance of earth shocks, some of
which are of sufficient force to do fur
ther great damage.
According to these reports, new
shocks at PeIario precipitated the en-
tire population into the sea, including
both the dead and living victims of the
first quake.
A violent tremor, running north
ST uthwest and east-northeast, lasting
three seconds and during which the
StromboIi volcano began eruption, oc-
Cured on Stromboli island.
Dead Will Number 10000.
Estimates are that the total number
of victims of the earthquake in Sicily
and Calabria will reach 10000 while
the damage to property will be several
hundreds of millions.
Queen Helena collapsed from the
strain she has undergone in the rescue
work.
The premier has received a cable
gram from Signor Felice, a deputy at
Messina, summing up the the situation
as follows:
"Messina is completely destroyed
RACED to the ground. The victims may
be numbered by tens of thousands.
The conf1agration, which is still rag
ing, is completing the destruction of
the city Salvage implements, firemen
and soldiers must be sent instantly.
The disaster exceeds the widest imag-
nation"
Bagnara Completely Destroyed.
A report received here early in the
day says that the town of Bagnara, on
the coast to the north of Reggie. has
been completely wiped out, fire finish
ing the work of destruction. The re-
port says that ''all the inhabitants of
Bagnara are dead" The town counted
about 10000 people.
A cable dispatch from Palermo says
that torpedo boat which went to the
aid of the earthquake sufferers at Reg
gio has returned, reporting that
nothing remained of the city but a
heap of tangled ruins.
Half the population of Calabria and
the eastern part of Sicily is dead; the
other half is weeping.
AS the great extent of the terrific
seismic disturbances becomes apparent
it seems impossible to exaggerate the
horrors which have followed them
The calamity which has over
whelmed Italy is almost beyond the
grasp of the imagination, not only be-
cause of the dead, now known to mum
Der tens of thousands, but because of
the innumerable wounded buried in
the ruins, many of whom will perish
because it is impossible to rescue them
from the wrecks of their former
homes.
Nation Stunned; Queen SWoons.
The whole of Italy is absolutely
stunned. and at the scene of the dis
aster the bulk of the people are literal
ly demented with the suddenness and
extent of the blow.
The total number of victims is es-
timated as high as 100000.
King Victor and the queen arrived
at Messina AS they made their way
into the ruined town the scene of dis
aster and horror was too much for the
queen. who swooned.
AS further facts concerning stricken
Messina become available they cor
roborate in every detail the worst
fears heretofore expressed.
Relief Train TeIescoped.
At Nivza, between Messina and Ca
tania, freight train ran into and tele-
scoped relief train crowded with in
jured persons, five of whom were
killed.
The British battleship Exmouth, at
a distance Of half mile south of Reg
gio, found fifty-eight fathoms of water
where formerly there was 243.
A royal decree was issued pro-
claiming a state of siege in the earth
quake region. Therefore nobody will
be allowed to go within the area of the
disaster without special permission
from the government.
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