Arizona republican., 1915-01-18
Detailed Reports of Italy s Stupendous Earthquake Disaster Increase Rather Than Diminish Death and Injury Lists
MOST OF DEAD
 STILL IN RUINS
Organized Relief is Becom~ ing Effective in Various Stricken Districts-Avez- zano is Again Visited by Ten-Second Shock
ASSOCIATED PRESS DlspA~cHl


 added to the terrors of the peo-
 pie in parts of the district visit
 ed by the earthquake on We'd
 nesday. Although the shocks
 were light, buildings which were
 cracked and tottering, were com
 pIetely razed In Avezzano and
 Sora, the worst sufferers, the
 people sought refuge in the open
 places.
 ROME, Jan. 17.-Detailed reports of Italy's stupendous earthquake dis aster increase rather than diminish the toll of dead and injured, and the enormous property loss. organ ized relief is now becoming effective in the various stricken districts but only a small proportion of the dead have yet been dug from the debris.
 The Italian government has ap- propriated sl000,000 for relief, and immense quantities of food, clothing. tentage, building materials. medicine, and corps of physicians are being sent with relief parties. The dead, and injured in the Abruzzi district alone are believed to be So,000 after the tabulation of reports by messen- gers This does net include the Sora district Twelve thousand bodies are believed buried ia the wrecsage of Avezzano. Rescuers believe that many gre still living, sheltered by masonry falling into arches above them. only five hundred bodies have yet been discovered
 The havoc wrought in nature is illustrated by cleft in Mont Pig zodeta which is cut in two parts by a great Assure visible for some dis tance, and by an immense pit filled with water made in the highway rear Ortucchio. Huge pieces of rock weighing several tons were sent down the mountain sides crushing horses, and killing cattle. Reports of ad ditional loss of life in previously un- listed localities are coming in. Ser ious damage is reported at Petrel lallru. which was almost totally des- troyed.
 The survivors are suffering from hunger and cold. Some of the | Slliollti NllldS'S Niitit Alt lpHo Ndo more quickly ascertainable. follows: San Atolio, two hundred dead. five hundred injured; Moreno, 1,500 dead. 'Canistro. 500 injured: Cervaro. 300 dead: Borgo, 50 dead: Valleroveto, 1900 dead.
 At Civitella Roveto. almost the en- tire population escaped because it it,sy in, ha fi.llc Tho nt,l. a of AbruZZi is continuing the relief work distributing immense quanti- ties of supplies, personally organiz- ing the relief work in various dis tricts. and then moving elsewhere. ANEZZANO. Jan. IT. - Another earthquake shock again rocked the ruined and desolate AveZzano. with of dead entombed in tons of masonry. Survivors and rescuers left their shelters and waited in the open. The shock was gentle rocking motion. lasted for ten seconds at 2:1O in the morning
 A tented city is being prepared to house the workers. and survivors who have been living in the open around camp fires. Train loads of 1 lumber for building shelters, tent age. food, clothing and materials for l illumination have arrived. Captain Pisani Vetorri in charge of rescue work estimates that there are 15,0O0 dead here. and in Cappelle. Magliano, and nearby villages. In one square nd how hacila in, was seen by Vetorri to place side by side the bodies of his wife. three daughters. and three sons. The ia ther stared vacantly. He had not eaten for two days
 l Until yesterday many were hall starving although 100000 bushels of wheat are under the ruins in Prince Torlonia's Granary. At one spot there were laid out the bodies of a fam fly of seven There was q row oi | 100 bodies near the beautiful villa of Prince Torlonia. Tn the villa were found the bodies of thirty-two ser
 wants. There were thirty two schoo masters in Avezzano before the earthquake, of these four survived
 One of the sixteen school mistresse. is still living.
 Naiuahles removed from the ruin.
 are already estimated to aggregat, s4000, ,00O
 Upwards of 2100 persons. half 0 them children under twelve years 0
 age. were taken alive from the ruins
 They had been mourned as dead. Tn hope that many such rescues will b.
 made is strengthened by the recolec
 alive in the ruins sixteen days afte the Messina earthquake,