Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-01-19
$4,000 Still
BURIED IN Az
EzzAN0 ruins
Rescuers Believe Many Still Are
Alive Beneath Tons of
Debris.
SUPPLIES ARE POURING IN
Whole Trainloads of Lumber and
Tents for $4,000 Persons
Arrive on Scene.
SUPPLIES ARE POURING IN

Arrive on Scene.
| Avezzano (via Rome, Italy, Jan.
1S.-Twelve thousand bodies, it is
semi-officially. estimated, are buried
under the fallen walls of this earth
quake-ruined city.
Rescuers believe there still are
many living beneath the tons of de-
bris and desperate efforts are being
made to rescue them.
Most of the irregular masses Of
stone have not yet been touched
with pick or shovel. This is the
fault of no one, because it would
take a thousand workmen several
days to turn over and excavate
what has been slowly quarried and
built up during centuries.
Capt. Pisani Vettori, who has
charge of the relief work here, esti-
mates that there are $4,000 dead in
Avezzano, Cappelle, Magliano and
the villages in this immediate dis
trict. ...
Up to midnight Saturday only
500 bodies had been taken from the
ruins. These were laid out irregu
larly in open spaces all over the
city. &c..
Supplies are now pouring into
Avezzano. On Saturday there We're
received $4,000 cans of preserved
meat, $50 quintals "a quintal is
about 200 pounds) Of rice, eight
quintals of coffee, fourteen quin-
tails of sugar and ten quintals of
salt. Whole trainloads of timber
also arrived as we'll as tents for 49,
600 people, and materials for illum-
ination.
In the midst of this desolation.
which reminded correspondents who
had been at the battle front of
Scissors after 100 days lombard
ment by German and French artil-
lery, are campfires, around which
parties Of survivors are cooking
army rations which have been dis
tributed to them.
They sit shivering in the sharp
winter air on their high tablelands
OF the Apprentices. An eight-day
clock hanging on the only fragment
of a wall which remains standing
is still striking the hours.
A dozen bodies ready for burial
are lying in the square of Torlonia.
Gin this square," said Captain
Vettori, Il saw a father place the
bodies of his wife, three sons and
three daughters. l think that was
the saddest incident ]. have SEEM"
lone little boy stood by the faith
er as he arranged the bodies. The
child seemed not to realize what
had happened. This man, so terrib-
ly afflicted, stares vacantly at those
who speak to him. He has not eat
en- for two days."
Scores of survivors were half
starving yesterday before food ar
rived from outside, although under
the walls of Prince Torlonia's gran
airy there were were 100000 BUSH
els of wheat.
The correspondent of The Asso-
ciated Press, going about Saturday
night with two soldiers bearing
torches, came across the bodies Of
a family of seven, father, mother
and five children.
There was CHASTITY row of more
than 100 lying near the splendid
villa of Prince Torlonia, in which
were found the bodies of thirty-two
domestics and employees on his es-
tate. Neither the prince nor any
of his family was in the
great country house which was de-
stroyed.
There were thirty-two schoolmas-
ters in Avezzano before the earth
quake, and only four survived, while
only one of the sixteen schoolmis-
.resses is living. All the professors
are dead. Il
Valuables already removed from ,
he ruins are estimated to be worth
100000, and it is expected that
much more will be found as the ex-
AVIATION continues.
The incoming officers Of the w.
Z. C. will entertain the members of
he order tomorrow afternoon, in
tead of the members entertaining p,
he officers. The order of entertain