The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-07-24
Of DEAD IN
DISASTER STILL
GROWING LARGER
Reports Say 3,O25 Bodies Have
Been Taken From Ruins
in Stricken Area
Cemeteries ARE FILLED UP
Victims at Melfi Taken to Neigh
boring Village for Burial.
Says Report
(By The Associated Press)

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Stunned by Wednesdays devastat-
ing earthquake which Is known to
have taken than 1000 lives.
with the possibility that the death
roll will go over 5000, Italy today set
in motion a vast relief army that was
penetrating into the recesses of the
stricken mountain provinces.
With the death roll in the province
of Avellino officially placed at 1907
instead of the previously announced
1892, fears were growing that the
number of dead throughout the
earthquake area might be exceeded
on a rechecking of bodies.
Latest official estimates place the
number of injured at 1924 in the IS
cities and hamlets in the six prov
inces most seriously affected by the
earth shock has developed into the
greatest quake disaster since the
Messina tragedy of 1908.
Project Vicidomini late today told
the correspondent for the Associated
Press that the earlier Official esti-
mate of 1892 deaths in the province
of Avellino had risen this evening to
l ,607. bringing the total officially
listed dead up to 1893.
The town of Avellino, high up in
the Appenine mountains ana the
most stricken Of the countryside, was
given over all day to funerals. The
absence Of tolling church bells was
striking. But the church belfries
were so shaken by the quake that
their sections did not dare to ring
them and tragic professions wound
their way through streets still filled
with debris and rubble.
Relatives of those in the hanger
zone were frantically trying to get In
touch with them but only a few of
the many messages could get through
as there was only telephone and
telegraph line to the local prefecture
and police station.
The same report said that the dead
in the volcanic crater city of Melfi
were increasing in number every hour
as the work of rescue parties pro-
crossed.
The report said the cemeteries in
that town had been completely filled
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by train to Foggia for burial.
Upon receipt of this information
the Bank of Naples placed 500, COO lire
at the disposal Of the government for
relief work.
Government agents at Rome had
counted the dead in IS cities and
hamlets in the earthquake area and
announced the known death list was
l 1898 with 1884 known injured.
In Potenza 232 were dead and 53s
injured. In Foggia 1857 were manned
and 120 killed. B%enevento had "a
dead, 81 injured. Naples reported
eight killed and Is injured in two
towns CT that province. In Salerno
two were killed and none injured.
Bari province reported serious dam
age in the town Of Canosa but appar-
emily no persons injured. Campo
Basso experienced heavy damage with
none killed or injured in the three
towns affected.
After receiving these reports from
Undersecretary OF State Leont, Pre-
mier Mussolini issued an edict to pre-
fects throughout the country forbid
ding public or private subscription
lists in aid Of the victims. The gov
did they estimate the extent Of prop
erty damage. Both carried consider
able matter of other details of the
quake, however.
Pope May Visit Area
There was considerable speculation
today whether Pope Plus XXI will car
ny out the intention manifested BY
Plus x in 1908 and visit the e
stricken by Tuesdays earthquakes.
Plus x intended to leave the Vati-
can and go to Messina in 1908 after
an earthquake had devastated the
city. planning to comfort the suffer-
eminent organized relief and supplied
the means of burial for all victims as
fast as the thousands of workers
could reach those tasks.
The Duce announced that the
council of ministers had taken all
necessary emergency measures.
The ministry Of the interior, which
gave out death figures. had great diff
ficulty in obtaining them from pro-
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