The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-11-11
EARTH SHOCKS
 AGAIN STRIKE
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 Disru ption of communications made 1t difficult to estimate cas- ualties or damage. Officials said reports from many outlying districts told of entire villages devastated but that casualties were low in comparison to the damage. Campina, an oil town, was reduced to rubble but only four persons were reported dead there.
 Greatest damage was reported in Galatz, Rumania's chief Danube port; Buzau, a thriving town of 36,00O persons chiefly engaged in the lumber and oil trade; Ploesti, center of the chief oil district in the Prohova Valley; Panciu, Ro- mani and Focshani. The large oil companies such as Astra Romano, Romano Americana Unirea, Con- cordia and Redeventza have re- f1neries in the Ploesti district. If fire brigades do not soon cope with the fires, the damage would be in- calculable and might seriously in- terfere with Germany's war ma chine.
 Qn London, newspapers said they had received reports that certain refineries had been badly damaged. It was reported that the standard oil company's offices in Ploesti had been destroyed and that Astra Romano, British-owned, had been badly damaged)
 The earthquake shook every building in Bucharest, including the United States legation. The Carl ton apartment was one of the larg- est buildings on the boulevard Bratianu and about 500 persons lived there. It collapsed after the first shock at 3:30 a. m. Sunday.
 Baby Is Rescued
 A baby and his governess were rescued from the Carlton ruins af- ter all hope had been abandoned for those trapped. Onlookers and rescue workers wept when they were brought out, raising faint hopes that more might be saved. Only A bodies had been recovered from the ruins early this morning.
 The epicenter was at Focshani, town of 10000 inhabitants in the Carpathian Mountains. It daes back from the middle ages and contains ancient churces and specimens of early ,ecclesiastic art.
 Telephone communication with Iassy was reported after nearly 24 hours and official reports from there said seven persons had been killed when the hotel Bejan col lapsed. Scores of villages to the south, between Iassy and Focshani, wree destroyed, but the number killed was not great.
 It was understood that the Royal Palace in Iassy had been damaged, but King Michael and his mother, Princess Helen, were visiting in Pennsylvania, which was not af- fected.
 He Predicted It
 Faenza, Italy, Nov. II 1- (UP) - Raffaele Bendindi, seismologist who predicted Rumania's earthquake Oct. 31, warned today that the world could expect earthquakes centered in the Mediterranean re- zion and in North and South America.
 Benedindi said epicenters of these tremors would be in Switzerland, the Mediterranean, in Canada and in the central chain of the Andew mountains. He added that they probbaly would be of less intensity than Sundays quake in Rumania.
 He said the causes were to be found in cosnic influences which are changing the normal baseball shape of the earth into the form of a duck egg" He thought sun spots partly responsible.
 Quakes Spreading
 Moscow, Nov. Il - (UP) The newspaper Provada reported today that earthquakes rocking Rumania were spreading northeast and al- ready had been felt in Bessarabia, Southern and Central Ukraine and Moscow.
 Many casualties and considerable damage was reported at Kishinev, where several public and privite buildings were wrecked. Similar re- ports came from Kiev, Odessa, Kharkov mad Dniepropetrocsk.
 The tremors were the strongest Moscow ever experienced, the news paper said, and shook the capital and its environs, but the sole damake reported was cracked walls and floors.