The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1915-01-20
AWFUL RESULTS
OF EARTHQUAKE
That Shook Many Towns
In Italy.
Loss Of life WAS ENORMOUS
Twenty Towns We're Leveled
To the Ground BY Ter.
rifle Shock.
TRAIN THROWN FROM TRACK


Rome, Jan. 1.-THE toll of dea<
and injured in the great earthquake,
that has swept over Central and
Southern Italy has not yet beer
made up, but all advices reaching
Rome indicate the ever-growing ex
tent of the disaster.
Towns with thousands of inhabi
tants have been overthrow ant
from some of these come details
which show an immense loss of life
The estimates ran tonight from 3d.
900 to $4,000 dead and injured. and
yet there are several sections, which
undoubtedly felt the earthquake in
full measure, from which no. esti-
mates can be obtained.
In the ancient territory of Marsi
which Includes Avezzano, the vic.
tins are placed at 10000. Only
a small minority Is left of the in
habitants OF Avezzano. who number
ed approximately $4,000. Fifteen
other towns and villages in that sec
tion have been laid waste. King
Victor Emmanuel is on the scene al
Avezzano, and 10000 soldiers have
been dispatched TO the various cen
ters where the force of the disturb
ance was greatest.
Italy as nation has arisen again
to give succor, as she did at the
time of the Messina earthquake six
years ago, to those who have fallen
in this latest cat" strophe from
which the country h suffered.
While the greater part OF the
damage was done by the first earth
quake, which occurred "Wednesday
morning at 1855 o'clock. there has
been at least one severe shock since
then, which resulted in the collapse
of many Of the structures which es-
capped the first. and 1t is estimated
that more than one hundred shocks,
for the most part OF a minor nature,
occurred during the twenty-four
hours after the disaster.
Avezzano is a metropolis and at
Sora. some twenty-five miles to the
southeast, the dead will total 1000.
So far as is known about twenty
towns have been absolutely >leveled,
ubiJa on almost ouual pnn,har emf
fered serious damage In all these
places persons were killed or injur-
ed
In the ruins throughout the day
volunteers worked heroically en-
deavoring to extricate wounded or
rescue the bodies of the dead. King
Victor Emmanuel himself directed
the work at Avezzano. where the
piteous appeals of persons caught
beneath wreckage could be plainly
heard.
1t is estimated that in Avezzano
1000 people are buried alive, some
of them school children I'm an insti-
tuition which collapsed. Only four
soldiers of the garrison OF 400 in
the town escaped when the barracks
fell.
Sora. with its population of 20.-
900, was almost entirely destroyed.
All the municipal and government
officials persisted. 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 injur-
ed into Rome. where they are being
taken to hospitals and private
homes for treatment. Surgeons and
nurses are being dispatched from
all directions into the stricken dis
tricts to minister to the needs of the
injured. while troops are being sent
to the ruined or damaged towns to
guard against vandals.
From. many other places come
reports of slighter damage to prop
erty and minor casualties.
Train Thrown From Track.
London, Jan. 1.-THE expe-
riences of passenger on a train
which was thrown from the track
by the earthquake are related in a
dispatch from Rome to the Central
News.
"Our train was near lake Gucino
when the earthquake occurred" he