The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1915-01-22
SHOCKS CONTINUE;
DEATH LIST LARGE
oUAkEs HAVE BEEN ALMOST
CONTINUOUS IN SOME PLACES
IN ITALY.
CASUALTIES OVER 10000
In Mountain Sections Hills Have Been
Split in TWain-Survivors Are
Parlshing From Cold and
Hunger.

Rome-A renewal of seismic dis
turbances added to the terror of resi-
dents of parts of the district visited by
the disastrous earthquake.
Although the shocks were light
buildings which had been cracked and
were tottering from the effects Of the
first disturbance were completely
RACED. In Avezzano and Sora, which
had suffered most in Wednesdays
disaster, the people left the temporary
shelters which they are living and took
refuge in open places.
Rain and extremely cold weather in
some parts of the district are hamper
ing rescue work. In many of the towns
thrown down by the earthquake 1t is
feared there still are living persons
beneath the debris, and that unless
they are extricated soon they will per-
ish.
Last reports increase the aggregate
of casualties and the extent of the
damage. In the department of the
Abruzzi alone 1t is estimated that 30
900 persons met death.
The government has appropriated
$1,000,000 for relief work, and King
Victor Emmanuel has donated 100000
for aid of children abandoned by their
parents or made orphans by the disas-
ter. Relief supplies are pouring into
the stricken districts and it is believed
that shortly there will be sufficient
food supplies everywhere.
The Messaggero after careful COM
putation announces that the number of
dead and injured In the Abruzzi dis
trict alone is 10000 without including
the Sora district. San Atolio has 200
dead and 500 injured Morino, 1900
dead; Canistro, 600 injured Cervaro,
800 victims; Borgo, so dead, and Val
leroveto, 1900. At Civitella Boveto
almost the entire population escaped
because they were working in the
fields when the shock occurred.
Towns with thousands Of inhabitants
have been overthrown and from some
of these come details which show an
immense loss of life. Estimates ran
from $4,000 to $4,000 dead and injured,
and yet there are several sections
which undoubtedly felt the earthquake
in full measure from which no esti-
mates can be obtained
In the ancient territory of Marsi,
which includes Avezzano, the victims
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nority is left of the inhabitants of
Avezzano, who numbered approximate
ly 10000.
Fifteen other towns and villages in
that section have been laid waste.
King Victor Emmanuel is at Avezzano
and 10000 soldiers have been dis
patched to various centers where the
| force of the disturbance was greatest.
Italy as nation has arisen again to
give succor, as she did at the time of
the Messina earthquake six years ago,
to those who have fallen in the latest
catastrophe from which the country
has suffered.
While the greater part of the dam
age was done by the first earthquake,
there has been at least one severe
shock since then which resulted in
the collopse of many structures which
escaped the first, and it is estimated
that more than 100 shocks, for the
most part of minor nature, occurred
during the "a hours after the disaster.
King Victor Emmanuel himself d.
rected the work at Avezzano, where
the piteous appeals of persons caught
beneath wreckage could be plainly
heard.
1t is estimated that in Avezzano A.,
coo persons are buried alive, some of
them school children in an institution
which collapsed.
Only four soldiers of the garrison of
400 in Avezzano escaped when the
barracks fell.
Sora, with its population of 10000,
was almost entirely destroyed. All
municipal government authorities per
ished Four hundred and fifty bodies
already have been taken from tibet
ruins there, and large number of in
jured are under treatment.
Trains arriving in Rome from the
east are bringing hundreds of injured
into Rome, where they are being taken
to hospitals and private houses for
treatment. Surgeons and nurses are
being dispatched from all directions
into the stricken districts to minister
to the needs of the injured, while
troops are being sent to the ruined or
damaged towns to guard against van
dals.