The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-01-06
TYPHOID ADDED TO
HORRORS At
MESSINA
Compulsory Evacuation o
Ruined Cities Advised
MORE SHOCKS AT REGGIE
Living Persons Are Still Being Taken
From Under the Ruins of
the City

Rome Jan. cit is reported from
Messina that typhoid fever has broken
out there and the authorities are filled
with alarm. IL is realized here that
unless proper sanitary precautions are
taken at once the disease may spread
far outside the ruined districts.
Some medical authorities here think,
that the disease may prove to be dys-
EMERY, but this trouble, under such
conditions as prevail at Messiha and
Reggie, would be likely 10 prove as
fatal as typhoid.
1t is expected that Reggie will be
practically evacuated by tonight when
the troops and sailors will be reduced
TO 1000 men. There are at present
5000 soldiers and 1000 sailors there.
Marines from two British warships are
causing the populace to evacuate Villa
San Giovanni, which is considered TO
have been the center Of the earth
quake
Earthquake shocks occurred at Reg
eio yesterday at intervals of twenty
minutes AT noon a shock stronger
| han the others caused a number of
standing walls TO collapse, and created
condition OF panic among the survi-
vors. II is not thought that there
were any casualties.
Shocks also continue at Messina
but they are diminishing in intensity
Numerous persons still living are
being taken from beneath the ruins at
! Reggie. while the voices of others can
be distinctly heard appealing for aid.
Two men, each 20 years old, were alb
stracted alive from the ruins Monday
evening. A curious fact is the pro
! portion Of old people found alive after
days OF burial. They seem to have
greater powers of endurance than
Younger men and women.
Efforts to release the living will be
continued for two days more in cases
where there is reason to believe sue
cess may be met with
The official figures compiled thus
far show that $4,000 bodies have been
buried IN four cemeteries in Messina,
that 5000 refugees have left the city
and that 5000 persons still remain
there
The number of persons killed at
| Reggie and the damage done to prop
erty was much less than at Messina.
Only the central section OF the city
was damaged.
The official figures place the wound
ed at Reggie and the refugees at 1000
The number of dead in the ruins is
not known
All the Americans who have not
been heard from may be considered
safe Probably all are in the south
of Sicily. Those who are known to
have suffered from the earthquake
have been reported.
The disaster was distinctly an ltal
ian one, except for the American
French, Turkish and Swedish consuls
! the British chaplain and a few Ger
man shipping clerks.
II is declared that an English speak
ing family was quartered in the Hotel
Central at Reggie at the time OF the
earthquake No trace of them has
becn found. II is impossible to as
certain whether these people wele
American or English
II has been decided to reconvoke
The Italian Parliament on Friday OF
Saturday when the government will
present bills for measures TO cope with
the existing situation in Calabria and
Sicily. A bill will be presented pro
yiding that all who were in the strick
"a cities and towns who show no signs
IF life at the expiration OF three
months will be considered dead.
Plans for rebuilding Reggie and
Messipa are already being discussed
in detail It is estimated that abou
Sl5 geo. OOO viii suffice to rebuild Mes
sina for 10000 inhabitants, making !
a commercial and maritime center. i
will take about $S,OO0,0OO to rebuil'
Reggie for $4,000 inhabitants.
The prompt dispatch of a part o
he American battleship fleet to one
Md in the earthquake relief work ma
added to the public feeling of apprec
iation and gratitude Word has CONF
that Admiral Sperry has opened rune
for the sufferers and that the men o
he fleet are contributing generously
Queen Helena has asked the autn
critics and people throughout ltal
not TO engage in the usual testlviue
IN her birthday next Friday. She In
tends to spend the day nursing tn
wounded and In attending especiall
TO relief work among the women am
children which IS to a large eN'en
under her direction I'll, d.
The pope is making daily visits =
the wounded in the Vatican hospl'"l'