Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-12
FEARS
RECONSIDERATION
5000 Residents of Island
Spend Night in Open After
Four Are Killed.

BY the Associated Press.
MESSINA, Italy, September 1.-THE
people of Messina, Stromboli and Lipari
today turned anxious eyes toward the
Stromboii Volcano. which. strangely
silent after its latest eruption. had
kept thousands awake and on the alert
throughout the night.
The nearly 5000 residents of Stron-
boil Island slept last night in the open,
under tents provided by government
ships hurriedly sent to them after yes
terdays eruption and violet earth
quake shock. Three thousand feet
above them was the peak of the VOL
cano, mysteriously quiet bat with all
OF its reawakened deadly potentialities.
All of the Aeolian Islands were at
fected by the earthquake, but only the
picturesque circular island of Strom-
bcli suffered from the volcanic dis
turbance.
Four Reported Dead.
Two torpedo boats came back from
Stromboli shortly before midnight
bringing one badly injured person, re-
porting four dead at Ginostra, one
woman missing and nine residents In
jured
Many fires started by the volcano
were extinguished by the companies
OF firemen debarked from the war
ships.
Strombon, in the Tyrrhenian, where
the ancients believed AeoluS, god of the
winds, resided and blew good or bad
breezeS from his bullying cheeks. was
the heaviest loser. Aside from the
fatalities three villages we're partly de-
stroyed and acres of fertile land laid
waste. That more lives were not lost
was due to warning which the volcano
itself sounded to the inhabitants.
The double catastrophe came at q
bad time for the Stromboli grape grow
erS, who had been nursing their choicest
product for national Grape day on Sep
TENDER %. The lava, instead of going
down to the sea, as in the case of the
eruption of Mount Etna in 1923, spread
over the city Of Stromboli and sur
rounding countryside until there was
little left of the grape crop.
The lesson which the authorities
. learned on July % in the Apennines
was applied promptly to StromboH at
| the first warning. The speedy dispatch
OF four destroyers and four torpedo
boats. together with minelayers and the
coast steamer Rolando. laden with tents
and other supplies, averted serious in
convenience and possible suffering to
the Strombolf inhabitants.
Ashes were piled four inches deep on
roofs and balconies of small country
houses constructed for the most part
of petrified lava. In the hamlet of
Ginestra is houses were damaged
badly.
Navy Aids Relief Work.
NearneSs of the strong militia and
naval force at Lipari Island aided in
the rescue work. The eruption was
visible from the prison colony there,
and Immediately the consul in COM
mand of the Fascist militia detach-
nent guarding prisoners set out in
fast motorboat with 80 men for the
| island.
The navy also contributed to relief
work on the island, sending a destroyer
and two torpedo boats
! Stromboli ceased smoking at about
4 pm Deaths and injuries were
caused by the people taking fright at
the first wave of hot ashes and rush
ing in the houses to fight the fires
The eruption was characterized by
an unusual phenomenon, flow of hot
sand which caused damage all along
its course. Lava flowed on front of
over $50 feet.
U. S. AID is DECLINED.