New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-11
Quake Re1lds
Part of Alps;
Towns Cut Off
Many Injured and Several
Killed as Tre1nors Cause
Avalanches ON Swiss and
Italian Mountain SLOPES

GENEVA, Sept. lobby The Asso-
ciatcd Press)--A severe earthquake
shook the southern slopes of the Swiss
end Italian Alps yesterday from Monte
Rosa to Bernina Pass, causing ava
lanches. The shock was accompanied by
heavy snowfalls. Several Alpine viii
lagos are isolated. Four persons are
reported to have been killed and many
injured.
Slighter shocks also were reported in
the Swiss Alps around ,Zermatt and
Pontresina, but there were no casual
ties.
ROME, Sept. 10.-(By The Associated
Press )-Earthq shocks continue,
causing more victims among the res
cucrs owing to falling masonry. To-
day there were shocks as far south as
Casino, near Naples. Apparently there
was no serious damage and no casual
ties are reported, but the shocks pro-
duced great panic among the popula-
ton, which recalled its experiences in
the earthquake Of 1915.
Quakes Open Volcanic Crater
A volcanic crater has suddenly opened
at the top of Pizzo d'Ucello, 3 noun
tain 5,845 feet high, about nine miles
northeast of Spezia. 1t is located on
what appears to be the northwest cor
ner 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 tele-
gram from Spezia states the crater is
emitting smoke and sulphuric fumes,
~ ftcto wi ho
volcanic outbreak to the earthquake.
The shock which devasted scores Of
little towns and villages north of
Florence seems to have followed the
line Of the mountains. This is COM
mon to earthquakes in Italy, as the
tremor that destroyed Messina in 1908
followed the Calabro-Sicil.an noun
tains, and the one at Avezzano seemed
tc cling to the trend of the Apennines
Four years later the Tuscan hills were
shaken and Mucelio was destroyed, and
now the Apuan Alps are visited by the
seismic disturbance
At the seismographic station at Jena,
Germany, it is suggested that the pos
sible cause of the earthquakes IS q
sinking % the earth along the noun
tains bordering the Gulf of Genoa. Ex-
perts there say 1t indicates a massive
caving zone in the earth's crust.
FIVlZZANO, Italy, Sept. 10 (By The
Associated Press) Of Tues
days earthquake, which laid this once
iioulishing town in ruins, seem stupi-
fed with the horror of the disaster.
The work Of recue goes on. Motor
lorries are beginning to arrive regu-
larly, bringing cooked food and tools
for the men engaged in excavation.
Portable ovens are being set up.
AS in former earthquakes, some fami-
lies have been rescued almost without
injury from the ruins Of their homes,
while in other cases every inmate of
shattered dwellings was killed. Zone
little girl, whom nobody recognizes,
wandcrs about the town with her frock
torn and tears running down her be-
grimed face, asking piteously for Mama
mia" She possibly is "a child Of visitors
here for the summer season and WAS
playing in field when the earthquake
occurred. Her family probably was
wiped out. She cannot tell where she
lives and knows only that her name
liz Tina and that she came here with
her father, mother and little brothers.