Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-01-16
.nMPASSABLE ROADS MAKE
RELIEF WORK DIFFICULT
New Estimate Is 10000 Dead.
10000 Hurt in
Disaster.
AMERICAS ONLY FOREIGN
EMBASSY TO AID REScUERs
None but italians Killed in Ca
tastrophe-MortarIess Build
ings Were Those to Fall.
BY the Associated Press.

H9ES "SiS iIOSS 10 dill
By :he Associated Press.
ROME. Jan. 16.-FamIne and n
tense cold are adding to the suffer.
ings Of the earthquake victims and
slowly increasing the already huge
death roll. Food there is in plenty
but its transportation 10 many of fael
towns affected is all but Impossible
because Of obstructed roads.
Rescue work Is now going ahead|
feverishly. for each hour OF delay
means death by starvation or exhaus
ton for buried victims. From towza|
after town in the stricken section|
come reports OF excavation of ruins|
that was too late 70 save lives.
Attention gradually is turning froru1
Avezzano, the centre OF the disturb
ance. ana the greatest sufferer, to|
other and smaller towns. where AM
almost equally large percentage oil
the population was destroyed. In orIv|
one case SO far-that of Sora-do late|
reports show that the effects Of the|
quake were less disastrous than had]
been feared. Only $50 Of Sora's 17.00gl
persons appear to have been killed.
Towns That suffered.
While trainloads OF injured con
SinIe 10 arrive in Rome. additional
details OF the horror come in, all tend
sng TO confirm earlier estimates c1/
the tremendous loss Of life. ReportsI
Indicate that. next 70 Avezzano. tho
towns to suffer the most are Pescina /
with 1850 victims. Paterno, with I, 00dI
dead. and Samelino. with 500 OF it'd
population Of 1900 wiped cut. All ard
environs Of Avezzano.
The horror OF possible food added -
famine and suffering from cold exists
IN the neiEhborhood Of the F,usine
canal, which has been obstructed aud
damned up by a landslide at Monte
corvino- -Rovella. Soldiers and civii-
ians are working desperately to cieaE
the canal
Though il seems to be definitely es
tablished that the present earthquake
will not rival that Of Messina IN 1901
Ia the number Of dead, the percentage
Of casualties in proportion to the pop
ulation affected appears to be much
higher. due, IT seems, TO the dry con
struction of buildings that was almose
universal throughout the stricken dis
trict. Messina had 76,4S3 dead and
81, ,470 injured. Present reports indi
cate %. 900 deaths and twice as man F
injuries in this catastrophe The oni
buildings not leveled by this earth
quake were the few made with reiis
forced concrete.
Not Like Messinn-
The absence of foreigners II thd
district now devastated Is anotne
point Of difference between this quak
and the last. Not only were II
American consul and his wife kiHes
at Messina, but a long list of tourists r
from the United States were reporte
in addition TO travellers frpI
other countries. No one not an ItaiIa
has as yet been reported as injEfs
or missing in the present disasters
Up to the present time the Itala
government has declined foreign 81
hcial assistance, but this has not pre
vented unofficial aid of all kinds &
Mrs. Thomas Nelson Page, wife &
the United States ambassador, MS
contributed $500 to fund beinsN
raised. and other American woner&
are Following suit Mrs. Page ais
heads a committee of America
women who are working for the SUI
ferers
All supplies and money receive
will be handled by the central relic [
committee in Rome. The gratifad
OF the Italians for aid rendered b
the Americans is profound. and tl'
automobiles used by members Of
embassy in visiting the devastats
area are greeted everywhere er4na
siastically.
The Duke OF the Abruzzi is
touring the central portion OF ise
carrying supplies where possible, aE
doing all in his power TO aid the W,
tins. Ambassador Page plans tcds
or tomorrow to go to Ayezzano 81
other towns to render assistaAee
Men and women of the nobility, som
of the latter Americans by birth, 81
working in hospitals and In the field
Rescue and relief work is bell
pushed with feverish haste in tn
strickend istricts. Thousands OF -
diers are on the ground and at wors
digging out and burying the vietiHl
and caring for the survivors.
The need Of the latter, Of whor
there are thousands upon thousand
homeless and generally penniless
urgent. and the people, from the Kin
down, are doing all possible TO alie
viate their condition. The col
weather. which continues. adds 10 =
terrible suffering, and temper az
buildings Of wood are being eI'ecte'
as fast as possible to house the home
less.
Just how severely the Marsica czs
trict. in which Avezzano Is located
suffered is best told in TELEGRAM
which Monsignor Bagnoh. bishop
the Narsica region, sent 10 RoS
Benedict. The telegram reads:
THE Marsica diocese has see
transformed into a great cenel sr
Avezzano, Capelle and Paterno raaf
and almost all inhabitants a
Ecclesiastics, some dead, som
wounded
"A few villages in the diocese
immune, but generally desoistlS
reigns. Il is an immense and I;
tressing catastrophe.
The Pope, in reply 10 this disrreES
ing information, wired the foliopi1ilF
fBeing the Father OF all rhe faitl
full, but first of the unfortunate. Al
pierced with grief by this immenr
misfortune.
II extend by arms to my unharp
children and am praying for pezc
tCsntinNed cn Pare Z. ceiHmn ~