The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-01-20
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MAkY ITALIANS BURIED UNDER
EARTHQUAKES DEBRIS
DESTROYS Central italy

Towns Are Devastated-Peopl'
Caught Under Falling Roofs Arr
Buried Aive-Out Of Twelve Thou
sand at Avezzano Only One Hun
dred Are Now Remaining Alive.
Central Italy has been devastated
by an earthquake which shocked the
country Wednesday. According to the
Rome Tribune, it is estimated thai
victims from earthquake number be
tween $4,000 and $4,000.
A dispatch from Rome says: "lr
the Marsi, the region around Lake
Fucino, at Avezzano, there are 20,-
900 victims Of the earthquake. Dep
uty Sipari, who represents Avezzano
in the chamber Of deputies, has ask
ed for $4,000 soldiers and material
for huts. Fifteen other towns in the
Marsi have been destroyed and 9th
ers damaged. OF the $4,000 inhabi-
tants of AyeZZano only 100 survive. "
It Is officially announced that the
centre Of the earthquake was be-
tween Campobasso and Sarno, and
that it was felt strongly at Perdgia
and slightly as far north as Ferrera.
The shock was the strongest ever
felt here. It lasted several seconds.
People everywhere rushed from their
houses in terror. Many buildings
were damaged.
At the Meteorological Institute it
is said that buildings continued to
rock or tremble for about thirty Sec
onds after the shock had ceased and
that the duration Of phenomenon al
together was about one minute. It
was stated thu it was not believed
that the disturbance extended to Sic
lily.
AS the day wore on and details be-
gan to arrive in the capital, 1t was
apparent that the disturbance in the
neighborhood OF Rome and in the
province Of Abruzzi had been greater
than was at first believed and that it
also had been felt severely in and
around Naples.
At Monterotondo. three persons
were killed and two wounded; at
Zagarolo the dome Of church fell;
at Galiano part of the cathedral was
wrecked; at Veron two persons were
killed and two injured; at Tivoli one
person was killed; at Pereto five
houses collapsed; at Poggio Native
one person was killed and several
were injured.
Up to q late hour it had been
found impossible to communicate
with the ancient fortified city of
Avuilla in the AbruZzi, owing to the
interruption Of the telegraph service.
1t was reported that several villages
were destroyed in that vicinity.
At Tore Cajetani, about thirty
seven miles east of Rome, the village
was almost entirely destroyed. At
Arnara the municipal building col
lapsed.
The town of Avezzano was virtual
~ destroyed, the dead there being
estimated at 5000. One thousand
persons escaped from the ruins, but
most of them were injured.
At the capitol two magnificent can
dlesticks were broken. At the Pal
azzo del Drago, where Thomas Mel
son Page, the American ambassador,
lives, several existing cracks in the
building opened wider and plaster fell
In several Of the rooms. The glass
was broken in the embassy Office.
In Avezzano and vicinity, 1t Is esti-
mated that fifteen thousand perish
ed and that the dead in Sora will
total 1000.
So far as known about twenty
towns have been completely levelled,
while an almost equal number suffer
ed serious damage. In all these places
persons were killed or injured.
Volunteers worked heroically all
day endeavoring to extricate or res
cue the dead from the ruins. King
Victor Emmanuel himself directed
the work at Avezzano, where the pitt
eous appeals OF persons caught be-
meath wreckage could be plainly
heard.
It is estimated that in AVezzano
1000 persons are buried alive, some
Of them school children In an institu-
ton which collapsed.
Only four soldiers Of the garrison
Of four hundred in Avezzano escaped
when the barracks fell.
Sora, with its population Of twenty
stroyed. All munition and govern
ment authorities perished. Four hun
dred and fifty bodies already have
been taken from the ruins there and
a large number Of injured are under
treatment.
Trains arriving from the east are
bringing hundreds Of injured into
Rome, where they are being taken to
hospitals and private houses for treat
ment. Surgeons and nurses are be-
ing dispatched from all directions in
to 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
vandals.
At Avezzano those who escaped the
destruction caused by the earthquake
went heroically to work to rescue
those penned under the fallen walls.
Nearly all the civic officials of
Avezzano and parish priests, monks
and nuns perished. The college, with
more than a hundred girl students,
collapsed. The governor Of prison
ers, jailers and doctors and patients
in the hospitals were carried down IN
the wreckage.
the only notable person who sur
vived wes the head Of the police, Sig
nor Ottavi, who, though wounded
has labored since the first overthrow
to succor the injured.
Desperate appeals for help are
heard on all sides from under the
wrecked buildings, but the efforts OF
Ottavi and the few hundred survivors
have availed but little, for they lack
ed implements with viii h to erect a
general rescue. But about fifty per-
sens, all Of them wounded, were
taken out with great difficulty. They