Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-01-16
Temporary Buildings Be-
ing Erected to Care for
the Italy Homeless.
TROOPS DIG OUT DEAD
At Least Twenty Thousand
Have Perished. With Twice
That Number Injured.

Rome Jan TG.-Fa1ine and intense
c1,d are 1ddinE % ths sunerings OF
ea~taqaaee victlms. slowly increasing
rls already huge death roll. Food Is
lsry. blt ira trans sportation to the
macy t1aus affected is all but impos-
s.Ifr because q obstructed roads.
Rescue vosE Is soiug ahead swiftly.
Or each hours delay means death BY
starvation 70 exhaustion % buried vic
uus-
F-1m town after town come reports
of szh5eerlcu In the ruins and that Il /
b f1o Fate 90 save lives In only one
ease r1 Gar. shat of Sora. do late re-
r8-. Show the effects Of the quake I
ver. fas disastrous than had been /
feared only $50 OF Sora's $1,000 per
r-as appeared 20 have been killed /
While train loads OF injured continue ,
f9 arrive iu Rome. additional dstaiIs 4
trd ro confirm earlier estimates Of I
tremendous IoEs Of life. Reports in-
dicate that next 20 l3vezzano. towns
to suffer most are Per Gina. with $500 .
v.cumF. Pateru0. 1000 dead. Samei-
.nC. CHr OF the population Of 1.GOg
wiped OUT All are euvirons OF Avez-
auo-
Horrors Of possible food IS added
o. famine and suffering from cold eN-
srr iu the uelghbcrhood Of FuciuO
canal. which has been Oh tructed and
damned 10y a landslide at iAfoutecOr-
viro-Roveiia- Soldiers and civilians
are working desperately TO clear the
canal As yet not single foreigner
d reported injured
Coid weather adds 20 the terrible ,
suGerinss and Temporary buildings OF ,
wood ure being erected to house the ,
homeless. The dead can still only be
but from what Is known II !
- believed at least -. 900 perislet. I
with twice that number injured. n
Bishop Writes Pope
The bishop OF Marsica. the region
In which AvezzanO IS located. sent
he following 20 the pope; -Marsica
diocese has been transformed into "a
great cemetery. Avezzano.. Capelle
and Palermo were razed and almost
lt Inhabitants are dead or ecc!es-
asLics. some are dead and some
wounded. Few villages n the diocese T
lre immune. but generally desOlation
'e.sus. 70 Is an immense and distres-
l-nE catastrOphe."
The pope replied. 7 am extending
Ey arms TO my unhappy children and
im praying for peace for the dead
md comfort for survfvOrA" d
Debris Seven Feet High. u
The American ambassador viii vis- a
, the district today or tomorrow Col {,
act George Dunn. American military y
ttache. mot0red TO Avezzauo and re-
4rued 20 Rome last night He said. a
The whole town rs ruined only 81
hree stables are intact The streets b
re fIu % debris % the height OF six u
" seven feet. Dead compose the great u
r percentage OF the inhabitants h
fore than 10000 were killed in Avez- T
su0 alone. while the remainder o. The Al
about one thousand. are
ractic1'ly all injured" d'
Yesterday soldiers digging IN the c.
uHs at CapelIe heard strange cries ei
nd found q woman buried under deb Ia
T. with a new born child Both we're IL
Sfricatsd alive and uniniured and are
o.uE well DR.
ratcruo. famous for sulphur baths. m
'egueutsd by Emperor Vespasian. =
900 years ago. suffered the same fate
b Avezzauo.
Modcrn Tomes escape in
Paris. Jan. is.--A correspondent OF ~
NceisiOr. IN Rome. wires he has in
armed officially that $4,000 were kill or
. and $1,000 injured In the earth 70
lake The great mortality IS attrib- II
liable 20 the method OF dry construc- r,
oa employed In the affected region. a,
ones being piled upon each other wi
ithout mortar. The only buildings all
Nieh escaped total OBSTRUCTION Ne br
odera houses built with reinforced
ncrete q
Many Dying Of Hunger
Loufou. Jan ia Rome dispatch
the Central News describes the sit
.ffo- a. 49,. g. df=frfcf ~ terrible