New Britain herald., 1915-01-20
EARTHQUAKE SHAKES
 BERNE AND ZURICH Slight Shock OcCurS--- Damage Re-
 ported As TTItIng. SECOND SHOCK AT A0NTDEl|ARD
Four Women Taken Alive From Ruins at Goija. Italy-Cold and Heavy Snowfall Adds to Sufferings of Survivors.

of Survivors.
 London, Jan. 20, 6:O7 a. n.--A de- to the Central News states that a slight earthquake occurred at Berne and Zurich last night. The damage was trifIing.
 Second Earth Shock.
 Montbeliard, France, via Paris, Jan. 20, 5:35 a. m.--A second earth shock night. It was so severe that the in- habitants were shaken out of their beds and croCkery was smashed.
 Cold Increases Sufferings.
 Avezzano, Via Rome, Jan. 20. Il A. M.-The sufferings of the surviv- ing victims in the earthquake dis tricts around Avezzano, particularly to the southeast of that place, have been greatly aggravated by a sudden change in the weather, bitter cold and heavy snowfall having succeeded the recent bright, dry weather. Snow began to fall Tuesday afternoon For
  we'll organized so that practically all of the larger places devastated are receiving attention.
 Between Pescina, San Benedetto and Gioja -de-Marsi, great cracks and de- pressions are visible in roads and fields. Gioja suffered more severely than any other place destroyed by the earthquake. Only about one-fifth of the population was saved. 700 per- sons out of 3,682. Four women were taken alive from the ruins there to- day. The destruction of all buildings in the town is even more complete than in AvezzanO, for only a single wall in the place is standing above the height of the first floor
 Priest Only Escapes.
 Many women were at mass in Gio- ia when the church fell in, but only the priest escaped.
 Five hundred soldiers arrived Sun day and are guarding the property in the ruins which is more valuable than at other places.
 Ortucchio Hard Hit.
 Rome, Jan. 20, 12:1O a. m-Next to AVezzano one of the places to suf- fer most from the earthquake was Ortucchio few miles from Gioja- where less than 400 peo- pie were saved out of a population of 2,50O. In the church, which was a large edif1ce, there were between three and four hundred people when the earthquake came. The priest and the entire congregation were impr1- soned under the ruins and only four women have been rescued
 At Collarmele, 5000 feet up in the a thousand persons out of a population of 1,50O, were killed. The priest in this town perished while conducting services at the altar, and the worshippers, chiefly women and died with him. The sur- vivors at Collarmele are sheltered in the railway station.
 Struck by Condition.
 Rome, Jan. 19, 9:30 D. m.-Thonas Nelson Page, the American ambas- dor, who has visited the earthquake disaster, was asked tonight for an i'm pression of his visit In reply he said he was struck by the desperate condition everywhere and the appalI- ing magnitude of the destruction, covering 1t did a, whole territory once full of hourishing towns and villages.
 While practically the entire popula- tion, he said, Is living in the open air, with only a few people in tenn porary huts, he considers that the re- lief organization is now very efficient, as soldiers have reached every devas- tated place.
 The first need now, the ambassa- dor said, is not only daily food but an assurance of regular supplies and shelter throughout the district as the houses, even when not destroyed, are so shaken that the people have aban- doned them.