The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1915-01-21
FEAR EPIDEhiiC
IN RUINED ZONE
Italian AIil0-.HaS M2a1G3d By
Grave Fl.3...a5
RELIEF NEEDS ARE CREATEiG

aescuers Are Sill Kept at Top Speed
by Cries From Under Debris-Esti.
mats Made Of Property Loss Go as
High as 9foooOo,oc0 - Marvellous
Tales Of Rescue Come From the
Wrecked Towns.
Rome, Jan. 19.-The task of reliev-
ing the earthquake survivors and of
guarding against eDidenics which are
threatened because Of interrupted
water supplies is the great problem
that is now confronting the govern
ment authorities and the thousands of
volunteers who have volunteered for
the work.
The king, the pope and the civil and
clerical dignitaries have given up for
the time being their efforts to raise
funds to maintain the sufferers and.
impelled by the cries for help which
are heard in almost every quarter of
the ruined towns and villages, the
resCuers are digging frantically to
save those who may still be alive.
Before the temporary abandonment
of the efforts to raise relief funds the
people throughout Italy had respond
ed nobly TO the needs OF the situation.
The pope hes received $4,000,O00 and
the government has acknowledged as
mucI again.
A great deal OF this money will be
employed in the work of rehabilitating
small business men and farmers
whose possessions have been de-
stroyed and whose futures will be
hopeless without means to re-establish
themselves.
Conservative estimates place the
damage to property in the ruined area
al close to S100,O00000, with every re-
port causing the necessity Of an up
ward revision. Thus far nearly 10000
refugees have reached Rome.
Further reports coming from Sora
picture the situation there as desper-
ate. An after shock shook the rem
nants Of the city and caused still more
terror among the survivors. A tele-
gram from Caserta says that sixty
bodies have been recovered there and
that $50 Injured are being cared for
by the soldicry.
Two thousand military tents and
large quantity Of supplies conveyed
by force of soldiers has reached Bal
sorano and parties have been detached
to relieve the conditions in other
towns.
Dispatches from the provinces con-
tinue to come in giving reports Of
damage in places that had thus far not
been heard rom. At Citta de Gale in
the reoic~ Of CinEclaro $50 persons
were Killed and the town Of Conistro
was wiped out. In the latter place
sixty persons were at mass when the
quake came and fifty are still buried
in the ruins Of the church.
The technical commission has found
that the fifth block Of the famous
column of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
on the Plaza Colonna was displaced
four inches by the shock The stability
of the monument was not disturbed
and sightseers will not be barred. The
Rome observatory reports that the
seismic disturbances are clearly di-
minishing.
The damage done to important in
dustries in AvezZanO was enormous.
The sugar works were destroyed with
a loss Of about $500. 900. Other
factories were ruined and the loss in
these places alone will reach $4,000
600.
Among tho titled women who have
been aiding in the Avezzano relief is
the Marchesa di Sestegne of Florence,
who is working as nurse in one of
the newly established military hos
pitfalls.
A remarkable story of a rescue in
Avezzano has reached here. Cerri
Erville, lieutenant of engineers, To-
Gated the residence of his mother
there. He worked for some time dig
ging at the ruins and finally got the
aid of some soldiers. After a while
he found his mother alive and only
slightly hurt. She had been in bed
and falling wall had arched over her
and saved her life.
Women are being allowed to take
part in the rescue work in some parts
of Avezzano. One woman who escaped
thought her daughter must be alive in
the ruins of her home. She formed a
party of women and after working for
many hours they at last heard a faint
voice underneath where they were dig
ging. They reached the girl and found
her alive and unhurt except that one
foot was held under a block of stone.
She had been four days and nights
without food or drink and was nearly
suffocated by pulverized mortar, but
will recover.