Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-01-15
Italy Busy With Work of
Rescue in Quake Strick-
en- Districts.
DIRECTED BY THE KING
Some Estimates Place Death
Losses Greater Than at
First Reported.

.t..... Etul. To- a.. Jan IJ.-Am.
a..r.l1r Page. az Rome. cabIed today:
-Laf.r remtomcia1 reports place the
la.l ar twelve o. ffrecn thousand and
t.s e-eualy Injured a. many more.
F-.a reports both couslderabIy Iare-
on $50 Americans have been reported
.r.l-d The government is not ao-
csr-ire AID from any foreiru country
Rome Jan. Constantly shifting
eerrltas place the death toll Of Wed
uartrgs earthquake az twenty thou
sand ard the injured in excess OF thir-
trlve thousand. Hundreds. possibly
thousand. victims are stnI buried
alive. Imprisoned IN the wreckare OF
tIe.r homes. while rescuers tn every
walk OF life struggle 10 dig them ont.
Ar Nve4zauo last night King Emman-
ual personally superiuterded the re-
lease OF "a number o. such uufortuu-
ares. The king reached Rome in a
private car 10 which were attached
three coaches bearing 40 wounded. Lat
est reports place the dead al Ave-.zano
at ten thousand and at S0ra four
thousand Iu az least 50 other towns
more than six thousand were killed
In Avczzau0 and Sora almost every
ono was killed. "a is believed Il will
o. weeks before tire Ioss Of life is
krown and damage 90 property ac-
cErateiy compiled
ThcTe -zeason- "a ,teliere-0nly-
'ew hundred ont Of 1900 iahabitants
rf sora have been saved
Reports today say the shock was
fsIt gs FAR ~ the Swiss frontte that
1 tIe Alps region there Were numer-
Gus avaiauches as a result % the
earthquake. This makes a. appear the
quake extended the entire length OF
italy. except ia the extreme southern I
end
Governments Gives Aid
Tho Italian government and people {
sll-tIy responded 10 the call for help
,-an tre stricken people Thousands .
OF troops have been sent 20 the scene L
ana rHs work OF rescue l1d relief 81 .
sl.rs Gu night and day. Food. cloth
iGr ard medicine we're dispatched by
motor car where the railroads we're
Blocked. EiuE Emmanuel ordered all
automobiles o. the royal palace dis
patched for use in the stricken dis
tr.etF m his travels wherever be
reaches q telegraph station the king
sends messages 90 tho queen. who
wishes to hear OH the details q the
disaster The E.1r ts tireles1 iu his
r1fraT1r 90 spur on the rescue work
Pops geredict showed hiE sympathy
yesterday by an Unusual visit 90 santa
'frrtl hosp .taI. where al persons Oh
D. inc
.-erfrl ffe spoke 60 each single one.
ittsE f1r particulars 0f tic disaster
ir4 lriufriue about thcir families.
Zoe American ambassador Dispatched
,F automobile With several members
.f fae embassy and supplies. especially
..rrlrtr. Co the Avezz1no district %
ave what aid possible. Amhassadog
.aEr 81 ready to appoint an Ameri- q
a0 relief committee.
Rv-zzano IN Ruins
Practically all buildings IN the town d.
n NVezzauo are iu ruins and nearly /,
.r 0f its people dead or ,ljured. &C
ortinz % adviccs- Many are sttii :
live buried under the debris and !
escuers are working 20 reach them !
seven hundred bodies have been re- !
uvercd and hundreds Of injured re-
orted taken from the ruins. Nearly ..
w civI officials. including the mayor. :
7st their lives. There e. similar con I
liion iu towns and Villages around :
.vezzalo MagliauO. TO the north. and r
'escina 20 the east. are practically in :
lins MousignOr BasuOh. bishop OF 4.
'csc.ua. is missing.
Earth HeaVing and Hot
4 man taken yesterday from a ruin n
J Avezzauo said: i had a sensation =
8 though some one was forcing me TO
ance. then / was thrown 20 the 2
-Ound and the roof and walls fell on
.y head. Even after I was buried the
srth seemed TO heavs and grow hot
A priest was saying mass In
lurch when he felt the fret shock b,
e rushed under an arch OF the build n
x and saved his life His acolytes =.
ere struck down and killed. The =
lock destroyed the squeduct system C
u there Is today no water In Avcz- IS
no \ WaEonc-is apprentice. about
irtcen. was first 20 give news OF u
20 the outside world He pa
cceeded In getting back into town n OF
- moments after the first shock He VI
uzd railroad employe and persuad- its
this man with his help to riS up Cd
leEraph instrument In n freight car pr
d connect II with a wire Still intact =