The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1909-01-07
FOOD AND CLOTHES
ON WAY TO ITALY
ANOTHER sHIP-LoAD STARTED
FROM NEW YORK.
AID FROM NATHAN sTRAUs
Vessel Also Carries 800 ltaIians---Red
Cross Fund Over 100000
Americans Reported Safe
--Teneriffe Shaken.

New York, Jan 6.--Laden with rs
tons of clothing and more than 10 tons
of provisions. VITA which to clothe and
feed the starving and half.naked sur.
vivors Of the Calabria and Sicily earth.
quake, and carrying homeward over
300 Italians Of all classes, most OF
whom are hurrying to the scene where
their loved ones have been killed,
manned or left destitute, the steam
ship Hamburg of the Hamburg Ameri.
can line sailed yesterday for Genoa
and Naples. @eFs ..s.
Most of the provisions destined for
the Italian sufferers were donated by
Nathan Straus from the stock of a To-
cal firm of which he is a member.
They included coffee, sugar, salt, bis.
cults, condensed milk, canned soups,
rice, hominy, Leans and peas. The
clothing, which was collected by the
Progresso Italo Americana, a local
Italian newspaper, comprises every
conceivable sort of wearing apparel
for men, women and children. Both
the clothing and the foodstuffs are
billed to the Italian Red Cross at Ma
pies, to which port they will be carried
free by the steamship company.
Twenty destitute Italians who have
relatives in the stricken regions are
also being carried free on recommen-
dation of the Progresso.
Red Cross Fund over $4oo, oco.
Waubinutan Iar Tn, orJar L.,
form the public exactly what Ameri-
cans have thus far done through the
Red Cross society, Miss Mabel Board
man, the secretary, yesterday issued
an official statement announcing that
the total amount OF subscriptions for
Italian relief so far credited and re-
ceived through the American National
Red Cross is over 100000. This in
cludes yesterdays contributions of
sl36,77s. , s~1
The statement AIDS Y
"On the 31st of December the remit.
lance by the American Red Cross to
that of Italy through the department
of state and the American ambassador
IN Rome was $4,000 On the I'd of
January 100000 additional was tele-
graphed, and on the Sd of January
$3.50, 900 additional was remitted."
What the States Have Given.
Subscription by states received by
the American Red Cross to date for
the relief include the following:
New York, $685. 1875; California, $780,
OH; Illinois, $26,S76; Missouri, $25, O52;
Massachusetts,, $16,205; Rhode Island,
Sill 900; Connecticut, $7,315; District
of Columbia, $3.50; Maryland, $6,O17;
Wisconsin, $5,105; Pennsylvania, 81
24S; Washington, $1,450; Ohio, $1,O32;
Nebraska, $1,000; New Jersey, $1,000;
Indiana, $685. Virginia, 1857; Montana,
$175; Colorado, 500; Kansas, $100;
Texas, SCI; Georgia, $35; Tennessee,
$25; Kentucky, $21; Iowa, IS; Utah,
IS; West Virginia, IS; New Hamp.
shire, 50; South Dakota, 81. Total,
S40S, 56736.
Americans Who Are Safe.
Late yesterday afternoon the state
department received dispatch from
American Consul Gale at Malta show
ing the following Americans to be safe
and well:
Lillian and Elizabeth NJ. Wiggin,
Henriette l.. Stadelman, John B.
Wright and wife, Dr. Herbert Norris
and wife, Mary H. De Hart, May Sher.
man, Margaret Mendell, Mrs. Martha
Kittredge and daughters, Ethel and
Clariss; Mrs. Alfred Harris and daugh.
er Rosalia; J. A. Kahn and Thomas
Robinson families, Katherine Davis,
Mr.. and Mrs. Edmund H. Garrett, Ju.
liam Garrett, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles H.
Hapgood, Miss Mary Moss, Francis NJ.
and Elizabeth G. Bockius, Emily Croas.
d. Estelle Pagan, Eleanore M. Wood.
Still Digging Out Survivors.
Messina, Jan. 6.-The work of rescue
Is being pushed on indefatigably by
night as well as by day, and even now
persons alive are occasionally dug out
from the ruins. An old woman was re-
leased from the wreckage of the
church of San Francisco. She did not
seem to realize that she had been
buried for so many days. She ex-
planned that she thought she was en-.
tombed in the church after having died
natural death and that she was liv.
ing in the hereafter. '..
Efforts to release the living will be
continued for two days more in cases
where there is reason to believe that
success will be met with.
Earth Shock at Teneriffe.
Teneriffe, Canary Islands, Jan. g.
An earth shock lasting ~ seconds was
felt here yesterday. 1t overturned fur
niture and set bells to ringing in the
houses. The people rushed into the
streets in a state of alarm, but no dam
age was done.
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