Omaha daily bee., 1915-01-19
Each Excavation in Earthquake Dis
trict in Italy Serves to Verify
Earlier Reports-Estimates
of Casualties.
RELIEF WORK sYsTEMATIzED
Sevent Thousand Refugees, Two
Thousand of Whom Are Injured,
Have Reached Rome,
PROPERTY LOSS is 100000, 900

ROME, Jan. 1s.-Rescue work
throughout the wilderness created
by the earthquake last Wednesday
continues slowly and under great
difficulties. Each excavation serves
to verify earlier reports OF the PROB
able casualties, though here and
there, despite the fact that five days
have elapsed since the catastrophe.
living victims are being released
from their prisons of crumblipg
plasters and fallen timbers.
Thousands OF soldiers and civilians. In
Guiding many members Of the nobility
gradually are systematizing the relief
work and are getting food and shelter
supplies over the obstructed roads 10
stricken towns and villages. The relief
work now, however, \overshadows the
rescue efforts
The pope. according to the osservatore
Romano, has sent aid to all the bishops
Of the dloceses in the earthquake zone.
A fund of 9O.OOO,OOO lire "a. 900 COO has been
received by the pontiff thus far About
1900 refugees, 1000 Of them injured, have
reached Rome 20 date.
One estimate OF the property loss says
It will exceed sOOOOO,OOO lire 1850, 600 OOO).
No official figures as yet available.
In dozens OF villages citizens who es-
capped with their lives are still in poig-
nant fear that new shocks will tumble
their buildings about their heads and are
camping out TO avoid further danger
Gradually. however. the seismic disturb
ances are lessening. and none has been
reported since yesterday.
Tho greatest care Is being exercised to
avert disease epidemlcs threatened by
interrupted supplies and the abnormal
manner In which the people now are llv-
Ing. Physicians are putting health meas
ures into effect
Twenty Thousand Dead.
AvEZzANO. Jan. Is.-(Via Rome)-
More than 1000 soldiers, under the COM
mand OF Lieutenant General MaFini, are
at work ON tie ruins OF tAveEzano. which
may b0 described as a wilderness extend
| ing for several miles. Slgnor Ciufeli,
minister of public works. estimates the
| number OF dead in the Avezzano district
at 10000 and 1000 injured.
So altogether ruined is the city that IL
is difficult for the Inhabitants to recoR-
niEe streets. much less individual houses.
Prince Giovannia Torloni, while clam
bering with the Associated Press corre-
spondent over a pile Of broken masonry
in the Via Della stazione, one OF the
principal residential streets OF the city,
remarked:
Almost every house in that long street
was occupied by my friends. They were
people of independence. forming the In
tellectual life and enterprise OF the city,
Avezzano was important as a manufac-
turing and trade center. The sugar WORKS
cost A.250,OOo. Some OF the machinery
may still be of value. other mills less
important represent a property value OF
somo $30OO,OoO.
Prince Works In WreckaEe.
Prince Torlonia, one OF the greatest
landed proprietors in Italy, is Nthe heav-
lest loser financially. but he declined to
consider that at this time. When seen
by the correspondent he had been up all
night working in the wreckage. The
great Roman prince looked rather like a
coal HEAVIER, as he has been laboring
physically in the work OF rescue
Among the titled women who have come
here to aid the injured Is the Marchesa
Di sOstegno OF Florence. She is working
as a nurse in one OF the seven military
hospitals erected In the park near the
new railroad station.
Incidents Of the remarkable rescues
which were made are gradually becoming
known. One is told of a lieutenant OF
engineers, Cerri EvilIe by name, who
came here and located the residence of
his mother. Tie worked for some time
! alone, pulling away stones, but presently
he was assisted by soldiers. After seven
hours OF the hardest kind OF labor he
found his mother alive and not very
badly injured. She had been protected
by an un5roken piece OF wall falling over
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