Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-09-10
ITALY |SSTUpEF|ED
/. BY SEISMIC HORROR
Aid Being Rushed to Stricken
Areas--Whole Families Wiped
Out In Villages
NO MORE SHOCKS EXPECTED
By the Associated Press

Fiyazzno. Italy, Sept. 10.-Survivors
Of Tuesday mornings earthquake,
which laid the once fourishing and
cheerful town of Fivazzno in ruins, are
coming to realize more and more the
extent Of the calamity that has be,
fallen them and they seem stupefed
with the horror Of the disaster.
The work Of rescue went on all night,
and doctors. sanitary assistants. sailors
from the italian dreadnought Cavour,
students, nurses and volunteers wore
themselves out In their efforts to bring
comfort to as many sufferers as pos
sible. Motor lorries are beginning TO
arrive regularly, bringing cooked food
and tools for the men engaged In the
work Of excavation. Portable ovens are
being set up since there is hardly q
house standing In the city.
As in former earthquakes, some
families have been rescued almost with
out injury from the ruins of their
homes, while in other cases every inmate
of shattered dwellings was killed.
One little girl. whom nobody recog-
nizes, wanders about the town with her
frock torn and tears running down her
begrimed face. asking piteously for
Mamma Mia" She possibly is child
Of visitors here for the summer season,
and was playing in a field when the
earthquake came. Her family was
probably wiped out. She cannot tell
where she lives and knows only that
her name is Tina" and that she came
here with her father, mother and little
brothers.
Rome, Sept. 10.--A volcanic crater
has suddenly opened at the top Of Pizzo
D'Ucello, a mountain 5S45 feet high,
about nine miles northeast Of Spezia.
1t is located on what appears TO be the
northwest corner Of the district shaken
by Tuesday mornings earthquake,
which resulted In the loss Of hundreds
of lives in the region just north Of
Florence. A telegram from Spezia
states the crater il emitting smoke and
sulphuric fumes. and that scientists
there attribute the volcanic outbreak to
the earthquake.
The shock. which devastated scores
of little towns and villages north OF
Florence. seems to have followed the
line of the mountains. This Is common
to earthquakes in Italy, as the tremor
that destroyed Medina In 1908 followed
the Calabro- Sicilian mountains. and
| the one at Avezzano seemed to cling to
| the trend Of the Apennines. very closely.
Four years later the Tuscan hills were
shaken and Muiltio was destroyed and
now the Apaun Alps are visited by the
seismic disturbances.
Florence. Italy, Sept. 1O.-(By A.
P. Minor earthquake shocks which
have been felt since the disastrous
tremor of Tuesday morning in the devas
tated zone north of this city, indicate
the disturbance is subsiding, accordinl
| IN Father Alfani. director of the OBJ
servatory here.
He said today that small shocks sue
ceeding one another rather frequently
show the seismic phenomena are wear
ing themselves out, while. II loni
pause succeeds q severe earthquake, an
other strong shock occurs. which ma!
be considered as the elimination Of tn,
small shocks which should have com
at intervals.
1.-THE shocks in the present case" h,
declared, "nre to be considered as goot
omens as indicating that no seriou
recurrence of the earthquake may be ex
| pected.'