The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-05-10
Panic Stricken Thousands
Flee to Catania and Other
East Sicilian Ports.
SOME BURIED ALIVE
BENEAIn I..E RUINS
Volcano Smoking and Res
cucrs Fear a Violent Erup-
ton Will Follow.
RED CROSS, ARMY AND
NAVY AID SURVIVORS
Queen Elena May Go From
Rome to Direct the Work
Personally.
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CArANIA. Sicily. May 0.--An earth.
quake which might have been equally
rs disastrous as the one at Messna in
1905 but for the fact that series Of
slight shocks forewarncd the people.
visited the east coast Of Sicily. south Of
Mount Etna, last night. Mount Etna
was in eruption at the time and the
belching Of the volcano increased In
violence to-day. Nearly score Of vii.
lagos were destroyed.
According To- incomplete reports re-
ceived. there are between 100 and 200
persons dead as Il result If the seismic
disturbance and more than 1000 have
been injured. but as most of the tele-
graph and telephone lines in that VI.
clnity are down anything approximate.
ing exact figures cannot be obtained.
Several Bodies Recovered.
Forty-two corpses had been recov.
cred NJ Linera up To midnight. and II
Il believed that sixty more are stlll
buried under the debris. Up to the
/ same hour eight bodies had been re-
covered at Passopomo and the same
number at Bongiardo. Two other
bodies are known to b. buried Al the
latter place.
There are eighty-two injured persons
in the hospital mt Aci Reale. thirteen
in the Catania hospital and two in the
Giarrc hospital.
\ majority of the victims were women
who were cooking indoors and young
children These were buried in the
ruins of the houses.
The roads in the district visited by
the carthquak. are iammed with panic.
stricken survivors who are loaded down
with as much Of their belongings as
they can carry. They are also driving
mules, cattle ANA donkeyS, This is i'm
peding the transportation of the
wounded from various villages 10 Ca
tanin. The troops are working by
torchlight ana their task is not only
difficult bur even dangerous. Their
W"rk is necessarily slow on account or
III" congestion on the Roads,
The first shock was felt ut d o'clock
last night in II zone from Ioffcrana,
which il about 5000 feet high. passing
through I.inera. which was the centre
of the disturbance. toward the sea to
Aci Reale, which escaped damage. The
area OF the zone is densely populated.
about 10000 People living in II number
of small villages.
There was "A second and moro
severe shock an hour later. which
sent houses tumbliug from their founda-
tiuns ana buried people in the ruins,
! was felt severely in all the towns Of
the district Hld drove the people into
the fields, where they >pcni the balance
of the night, There was II third severe
shock at IL o'clock. which completed
the devastation. Great clouds of smoke
arose from Mount Etna and many Of
the terrified people who had not already
taken to the fields hurried to the
cathedrals Ia pray.
Communicable Are Drstroyrd,
The railways ia the affected district
We're badly damaged ana the refugees
who escaped from the villages in auto.
mobiles ana reached this port tell ter.
rible stories of the disaster. Fires
broke ont after the earthquake ana
many of the victims of the contlagr-
tions We're persons who had ,'ccr
buried alive 10y The quake. crrya>ses
opened suddenly ia the earth and the
conhgurntion of the AudSHp" Was
changed In many places.
Prof. Iicco of the Noun, Eun 90
seryatory says the "arthquak" WIS e,
sentially n volcanic on" AMI that =
was Of equal Intensity with tho "u"
which destroyed Mcssna. Fortunately
Il occurred in the evening and this
kept the number Of casualties down
The people had not son" tn bed ANA
there was sufficient time after the pre-
llmlnnry shocks for them 20 rush out
of their houses.
Slight earthquake shocks had been
felt IN III. district for several days
and Mount Etna had been showing
activity, hu, the people paid no nttcn-
ton to these warnings, rs they are
used 10 seismic disturbances Even last
night. when the shocks seemed to have
spent their violence. it was not thought