The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-09-10
new CRATER
is OPENED BY
EARTHQUAKE
Volcano Is Born Out of Crash
of Earth Forces; Whole
Families Wiped Out in Deso-
lated Town.
DANGER THOUGHT over
(By Associated Press)

(By Associated Press)
ROME, Sept. 10-A volcanic crater
has suddenly opened at the top of
Pizzo D'Ucello, a mountain 5,S45 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 earth.
quake, which resulted in the loss OF
hundreds of lives in the region just
north Of Florence. A telegram from
Spezia states the crater is 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 com.
mon to earthquakes in Italy as the
tremor that destroyed Messina in 1908
followed the Calabro- Sicilian noun.
tains, and the one at Avezzano seemed
to cling to the trend of the Apprentices
very closely.
Apuan Alps Latest Victims
Four years later the Tuscan hills
were shaken and Mucelio was des-
troyed, and now the Apuan Alps are
visited by the seismic disturbances.
Scientists discussing the earthquake
say that intervals Of years represent
only minutes and seconds in geologic
time.
Reports from northern Italy have
given no further details Of the situa-
tion, nor have they told of the damage
done by the tremor which shook the
Emilia district between the Appenines
Snd tho River Po, yesterday morning.
First reports. stated the shock was
more severe than that which destroyed
Fivizzano and other towns north OF
Florence.
BERLIN, Sept. 9-The seismograph-
ic station at Jena suggests as the pos
sible cause of the Italian earthquake
a sinking of the. earth along the
mountains bordering the gulf OF
Genoa. Experts there say it indicates
a massive caving zone in the earth s
crust.
FIVIZZANO, Italy, Sept. 9.-Surviv-
ors of Tuesday mornings earthquake
which laid the once flourishing and
cheerful town of Fivizzano in ruins
are, as the hours pass, coming to real
ize more and more the extent of the
calamity that has befallen them, and
they seem stupefied with the horror
of the disaster.
The work of rescue went on all last
night, and doctors, sanitary assistants,
sailors from the Italian dreadnaught
Cavour, students, nurses and volun-
teers were themselves out in their ef-
forts to bring comfort to as many suf-
ferers is possible.
Motor lorries are beginning to ar
rive 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
house standing in the city.
Many Families Wiped Out
AS in former earthquakes, some
families have been rescued almost
without injury from the ruins Of their
homes, while in other cases every in
mate 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 pit
eously for Mama, Mia"
She possibly is a child of visitors
here for the summer season and was
playing in field when the earth
quake ca me.
Her family probably was wiped out.
She cannot tell where she lives and
knows only that her name is "Tina,
and that she came here with her IA
ther, mother and little brothers.
FLORENCE, Italy, Sept. 1O-Minor
earthquake shocks which have been
felt since the disastrous tremor of
Tuesday morning, in the devastated
zone north of this city, indicated the
disturbance is suhsiding. according to
Father Alfani, director of the observa-
tory here.
He said today that small shocks sue
ceeding one another rather frequently
show the seizmic phenomena are wear
ing themselves out, while if a long
pause succeeds a severe earthquake
another strong shock occurs which
may be considered as the elimination
OF the small shocks which should have
come at intervals.
THE shocks in the present case"
he declared, "are to be considered as
good omeps, as indicating that no SER
ious recurrence of the earthquake may
be expected"