The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-28
Quake Cities
to Be Made
Shock Proof
Italy Takes Up Big Task of
Reconstruction Before
Rescue Work Ends in
Devastated Area.
BY THOMAS B. MORGAN

81 1nOnAS ID. nOhNATN
United Press Stan Correspondent
NAPLES, July 28.-Plans for a
L new southern Italy we're al
most ready today as the Italian gov
eminent ordered the greatest pos
sible speed in caring for its home
less citizens.
Unofficial estimates of the total
casualties still remained at between
5000 and 1000.
The latest government list of
bodies counted, issued on Saturday,
gave 2,142 killed and ASH injured.
The rescue work in the thirty
four towns and cities destroyed or
seriously damaged by last Wednes-
days earthquake, was not even
completed when the reconstruction
plans neared the final stage. Sol
dierS wearing gas masks still sought
among the ruins for bodies and
trapped living victims, and several
hospital trains arrived here today
with quake victims, who were placed
lin local hospitals for more up-to-
date treatment for their injuries.
The reconstruction of the devas-
tated region will begin as soon as
engineers make their final surveys
of the territory's needs, and the
Italian cabinet appropriates the
necessary funds to carry on the
work. That will be some time this
week, it was believed.
A VEZZANO will be used as a
IA model town in the reconstruc-
ton. Avezzano was built in 1915
after it was destroyed by an earth
quake, and contains chiefly one and
two-Story houses of reinforced con-
crete. Earthquakes since have done
no damage there, and the new
southern Italy will be built along
those lines.
Many of the towns, such as Aqui-
lonia, will be moved from their old
locations on hilltops to the valleys,
where they will be safer from the
earth's trembling. Most of the
damage in the last earthquake was
done in towns located at high alti-
tudeS. The government long had
sought unsuccessfully to persuade
townsnen to move into the valley.
In preparation for the vast re-
construction program, long freight
trains moved out of Naples at fire.
quent intervals today, bearing lum-
Der, bricks and cement for the new
buildings. Other building supplies
were sent in military and private
motor trucks.
n r
THE homeless population, mean
i while, was cared for in tents
and portable huts similar to those
used behind the front during the
war. All the devastated area re-
sembled a vast encampment.
Telegraph and telephone service
has been restored completely, and
damaged bridges replaced, so that
communication throughout the re-
gion was normal. Radio stations,
established by the army engineers,
also were functioning as compile
mentary service.
While only two American citizens
were killed by the earthquake, and
they of Italian ancestry, southern
Italy is the "emigrant territory"
and there was scarcely family in
the earthquake zone but had con-
nections' in America.
Rocco Colantuoni who was killed
with his wife and four children at
Villanova, has a brother living in
Brooklyn, and other relatives in
Springfield Mass, and the United
Press correspondent was told at San
Nicola, that Father De Stefano of
Springfield had lost several relatives
in the quake.
Gaetano de Furio of Monte Calvo
who has d son in Chicago, fed in
terror during the tremors, and has
not been found.
MANY inhabitants of Sossio, San
1V1 Nicola and the Trevico sec
ton have relatives in Boston and
Newark, while New York, Pitts
burgh, Philadelphia and Chicago
often are mentioned.
Hopes that more living persons
might be rescued from the ruins
were raised throughout the section
when three girls, between the ages
of 8 to 6, were extricated from a
demolished mousse at Melfi, and
when a 4-months-old boy, Filippo
Antinozzi, was found beneath an
overturned cupboard at Lacedonia,
where his entire family was killed.
A mother and two children also
were found olive at Aquilonia, and
while the mother was in a weak
ened condition, the children were
playing as though nothing has hap
pened.
The three-day tour of King Victor
Emanuel, who personally contri-
buted 100000 lire to the relief work,
also served to bolster the inhabi-
tants' courage. Tine king went from
town tn town raikinp with SIIrviv-