The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-15
HEART OF ITALY
 IS LIKE RUINS OF
 VAST CEMETERY
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disappeared. No trace of Monsignor Eagnoli. the bishop of Pescina, and 20 Carmelites living with him has been found and it is feared that all have rerished.
 The work of rescue at Avezzano was carried on with much greater vigor this afternoon by the soldiers and workmen who arrived from all sec ticns, but still despairing appeals could be heard from those buried.
 One boy was found uninjured inside stove.
 Two nuns were rescued from a eel lar and an old man was taken from the basement of a house where he he'd been protected by a wardrobe which had fallen across the wall.
 Dead in Debris
 Rome, January 14.-Demolished or partly demolished towns dot Italy from Naples northward to Ferrara and cross wise the peninsula from the Tyrrh enian to the Adriatic seas, over which Wednesdays earthquake passed
 Thousands of dead lie beneath the debris of dwellings,, churches and public insti- tutions which crumbled under the earth g vibrations.
 Not even an estimate of the aggregate fatalities is obtainable, as numerous places still are isolated owing to the severance of telegraphic, telephonic and railroad communication. It is known however, that Avezzano is a metropolis and that also in Sora, some 25 miles to the southeast, a large number of lives were lost
 In Avezzano and vicinity it is estimated that 15,00O perished and that the dead in Sora will total 1000
 So far as known about 20 towns have been completely leveled. while an almost equal number suffered serious damage In all these places persons were killed or injured.
 Volunteers worked heroically all day endeavoring to extricate wounded or rescue the bodies of the dead from the ruins. King Victor Emmanuel himself directed the work at Avezzano where the piteous appeals of persons caught beneath wreckage could be plainly heard 4000 Buried Alive It is estimated that in Avezzano 4OO( 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 bar racks fell
 Sora with it's population of 10000 was almost entirely destroyed. All municipal and government authorities perished. Four hundred and fifty bodies already have been taken from the ruins there and a large number of injured 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 treat ment. 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 vandals>
 Among the towns which are said to have been virtually destroyed are Avez- zano, Sora, Capelle, Magliano, Marse. Massadalbe, Collarmele, Gerchio, Celano, Lelli. Paterno. San Felio, Giosamarsi. Scurcola, Capistrello, Antrosano and Cas- tronovme, while Pescina, Ortonamarsi, Santelimo, San Benedetto, Ortcchio, Co., coullo, Bizgna, Balsorano, Canistro, Civi- telladantino, Castellafiumi, Pagliotra and Sorbo are badly damaged.
 Minor Casualties
 From many other places come reports or slighter damage and minor casualties.
 Trains are running from Avezzano to Ilvoli, taking the injured for treatment. Survivors arriving in Tivoli say many DQrSOnS a @ ha r,,f,,