The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1915-01-15
VICTIMS MAY GO
BEYOND $4,000
ESTIMATED DEAD FROM
ITALIAN EARTHQUAKE
$4,000 TO $4,000
WORK OF RESCUE.
GOES FORWARD
Dozens of Towns Have Been
Literally Levelled to the
Ground.
(By Associated pres..)

ROME. Jan. 1.-THE toll of dead
and injured In the great earthquake
that swept over central and southern
Italy has not been made up, but ad-
vices reaching Rome indicate the
ever-growing extent of the disaster.
Towns with thousands of inhabi-
tants have been overthrow and from
some OF these come details which
show an immense loss of life. Esti-
mates ran tonight from $4,000 to 5O.-
600 dead and injured, and yet there
are several sections which undoubt-
|edly felt the earthquake in full mea-
sure. from which no estimates can he
obtained.
In the ancient territory of Marsi,
which includes Avezzano, the Victims.
are placed at $500. Only small min
ority Is left OF the inhabitants of
Avezzano, who numbered approxi-
Dately 10000.
Fifteen other towns and villages in
that section have been laid waste.
King Victor Emmanuel Is at Ave2za-
no and 10000 soldiers have been des-
patched to various centers where the
force OF the disturbances was greatest.
Italy as q nation has arisen to give
succor, as she did at the time OF the
Messina earthquake six years s,Rp. to
those who have fallen in sliis litfest
eaIastropheY from which the country
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While the greater part Of the dam
age was done by the first earttiquake
which occurred Wednesday morning
at 1855 there has been at least cna se-
we're shock since then which resulted
in the collapse CT many structures
which escaped the first and II IL esti-
mated that more than one hundred
shocks, for the most part of a minor
nature, occurred during the "a hours
after the disaster.
ROME. Jan. 14.-Demolished or
partly demolished towns dot Italy
from Naples northward to Ferrara
and crosswise the peninsula from
the Tyrrhenian to the Adriatic Seas,
over which Wednesdays earthquake
passed.
Thousands of dead lie beneath the
debris OF dwellings,, churches and pub
lie institutions which crumbled un-
der the earth's vibrations.
Not even an estimate OF the aggre-
gate fatalities Is obtainable as num-
erous places are still isolated owing
to the severance OF telegraphic, teIe-
phonic and railroad communication.
1t is known. however, that Ayezzano
Is q metropolis and that also In Eora,
some 25 miles to the southeast, q
large number of lives were lost.
In Avezzano and vicinity It Is esti-
mated that $1,000 perished and that
the dead in Sora will total 1000.
So far as known about 20 towns
n
an almost equal number suffered SER
ious damage. In all these places per-
sons were killed or injured.
Volunteers worked herociaiiy night
and day endeavoring to extricate
wounded or rescue the bodies OF the
dead from the ruins. King Victor
Emanuel himself directed the work az
Ayezzano. where the piteous appeals
of persons caught beneath wreckage
could be plainly heard.
1t is estimated that In AveZznEo a.
900 persons are buried alive, some OF
them school children In an institution
which collapsed.
Only four soldiers OF the garrison
| OF 400 in AveZ2ano escaped when the
barracks fell.
S0ra with its population OF 10000
Il Ne-s' 8AAA0ot OAtAA IdCottOyGus kAll
municipal government authorities
perished. Four hundred and fifty bod.
les already have been taken from TIE
ruins there and q large number are
under treatment y,
Trains from the east are bringing
hundreds OF injured into RoInes wners
they are being taken to hospitais and
private houses for treatment. Sur.
geons and nurses are being dispatched
from all directions into the stricken
districts 10 minister to the needs oi
che injured, while troops are beine
sent 70 the ruined or damaged towns
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Among the towns which are said
20 have been virtually destroyed ars
Avezzano. Sora, Capelle. MseIiano
Merse, Massadaibe, CoiiarnaeIe Ger.
chiro, Leili, PetSfTo, San Felfno. Clio
aamafsi.. Scurcolas Cnpistrello, Antro.
Isane and Caatrcnovme while pescliia
lOrthonamari. Samtelinio. San Bene,
idettos 0rtucchip. Cocuiio. BisoRna
ssaiEcrano, Canistso, Ciyitelladartino
sCnstellhflumi. Pagliotra and g0rhc
are BADLY damaged. rs
| Fr0na many other PLACES come re.
EpDfts OF slightee daInal,e ana naItiol
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