The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-01-19
|qZ1Y TOWNS ARE
|'''' SHAKEN TO PIECES
.,,,y IS VISITED BY MOST DIS
llAD no1s EARTHQUAKE THAT
rvTENDED 100 MILES.
,rrINS NUMBER OVER $4,000

strongest Felt in Rome in
0iiv va Than a Century. Many His
nO io churches and Statues Dam
W. " and Cities Wiped Out.
pPovE.-Demolished or partly de-
,,shod towns dot Italy and Naples
l0l 4hrard to Ferrara and coastw1se
~ t y, peninsula from the Tyrrhenian
u tbo Adriatic sea. over which We'd
rssdav's earthquake passed. The
rooI, was the strongest that Rome
~ foIt in more than hundred
years ., 49,
Il rbonsands of dead lie beneath the
obrie Of dwellings,, church and pub
:. institutions which crumbled un-
~ the earth's vibrations.
& Not even an estimate of the aggre-
INTO fatalities is obtainable as numer-
nc nIaces are still isolated, owing to
Eba severance of Geographic, tele-
bboric and railroad communication.
is known, however, that Avezzano
a metropolis and also that in Sora
ome twenty-five miles to the south
last 2 large number of lives were
B ost
In the capital itself a great deal OF
Bam8ge was done, churches and stat
ns suffering most. For a time the
&eoDle we're stricken with fear and
here was a veritable panic in hospl-
bis monasteries and converts.
BuiIdings on both sides of the Porta
8nl PopoIo, the north entrance to
Rome threatened to fall and the ca
/ lie decorating the gate crashed to
4 he ground. The obelisk in ST. Pc
hrs square was shaken and badly
amazed, while the statue of st. John
Lateran and the statues of the Apos-
] es surrounding the Basilca are in
anger of collapsing. The famous
soIonnade de Coraling, st. Peters
Quare, was lowered four feet and
be adjacent house, once occupied by
be sisters of Pope Plus X, was badly
Hacked
In Avezzano and vicinity it is es-
mated that $4,000 persisted and
hat the dead IN Sora will total 1 1000.
Twenty Towns Destroyed.
So far as known about twenty
Dwns have been completely leveled,
lille an almost equal number suf-
bred serious damage. In all these
1aces persons were killed or injured.
Volunteers worked heroically all
av endeavoring to extricate wound
h or rescue the bodies Of the dead
rom the ruins, King Emmanuel him
elf directing the work at Avezzano,
there the piteous appeals Of persons
aught beneath wreckage could be
Ilainly heard.
It is estimated that in Evazzano
900 persons are buried alive, some
II them school children in an institu-
ion which collapsed.
Sora, with its population OF 2O,-
loo, was almost entirely destroyed.
Iii municipal and government au-
|horities persisted. Four hundred
ind fifty bodies already have been
aiken from the ruins there and a
|arge number injured are under
Treatment.
Trains arriving from the east are
bringing hundreds of injured into
Rome, where they are being taken to
hospitals and private houses for
Treatment. Surgeons and nurses are
being dispatched from all directions
|nto the stricken districts to minister
10 the needs of the injured while
troops are being sent to the ruined
pr damaged towns to guard against
lFandals.
Among the towns which are said
70 have been virtually destroyed are
AVezzano, Sora, Capelle, Magliano,
liarse, Massadalbe, Collarmele, Ger
fhio, Celano, Lelli, Palermo, San Eel
slno, Giosamarsi, Scurcola, Capistrel-
10, Antrosano and Castrovme, while
Fescina, Ortodaminto, Samtelimo,
Pan Benedetto, Ortoucchio, Cocullo,
6lsegna, Balsorano, Canistro, Civil
Selladantino, Castellafumi, Pagliotra
Fnd Sorbo are badly damaged.
From many other places come re-
ports of sighter damage and minor
casualties.
Trains are running from Avezzano
% Hyoli, taking the injured there for
treatment. Survivors arriving in I'll
|'oh say many persons are under the
ulns in Avezzano.
reports from Naples say fears that
lne province of Potenza, which was
isolated, had been destroyed, are I'M
'oonded. No fatalities have been re-
ported from that region.