Show bi I u QUEEN EES ELENA IS Iy INJURED y V 1 H 8 A 1 d lil S d 1 Y a c IN Y N TUE COURSE JOU uE OF HER 3 4 LABOR OF LOVE During cirth arth Tremor at Messina Hospital Patients Are I Thrown Into Panic re Ie and Queen Is Caught in Crush as They Crowd Through Doors re IC King Still Superintends Work of Rescue Romo Rome Jan 2 Queen Helena who as asla has ha been devoting herself to heroic and andia la ia lahe Z solf work among tho earth earthquake he tic heon quake sufferers rR has been slightly In Injured Inon Inon on lured in tho the course cour of her labor of love Jove An earth tremor yesterday at Ir Me created a panic among tho patients in one ono of the tae improvised hos hoa hosing hosing ing mg and tho the qu en trying tr to allay mS ing the fears of tho patients who were crowding through the doors was nd md caught In tho the crush and sustained lib flight contusions on ou tho the chest The Theof Theof of duke uko of ot Aosta also has baA boon heon slightly tea teanis injured at nt Palme tor from a fall falling ing fug wall cutting his face and one of his Y his nis nisher hands hand B her herout Tho Tiro king and queen are arc still sun at lies Dress out slim Tho The king continues to organ organize ize he and superintend the work of ret res rescue cue One and the queen is doing everything z her power In lu consoling and al nl alleviating the sufferings of the sur sun Ambassador GrIscom has hag sot set forth tIle the wie boot best way for relief roller from America Am to bo Bent B nt to tho devastated district Re Ae e recommends that through the co eo cooperation cooperation operation of a committee of Ameri Amen Americano AmericanA cans cano at Rome Romo steamers bo ho chartered at Now Orleans Orlean s or Marseilles to top carry earny carr 1 p nn clothing hurl and medical sup Imp plies Piles lIes of all kinds as well wen as doctors and to the strait of I Tae Toe hospital and all an other available I for tor tho the care caro of tho the injured In IIi i tho nearer coast cities titles of or Italy are filled to overflowing but now Catania C Palermo and Syracuse have room for tor forno torno forno no more Naples IB Is rapidly becoming overcrowded and as a result the suf sufferers sufferers sufferers aro are beginning to pour into Rome In this city elt private people are arc com competing competing with the authorities to give glo the refugees hospitality and aud care The king has sent a large largo number r of or toe the Italians to his own palaces at Caserta Cascrta and Naples Tho The foreigners In Rome especially the Americans Americana are aro all do doIng doIng Ing lug humane work It has hag been decided to cover coor the ruins rulus with quicklime and this work will bo be undertaken as soon as lg tho the ma material material tonal Is available The walls walh still standing In Messina and Reggio Reggie will bo ho blown down by dynamite Much has has been heen done dono towards aya systematizing systematizing tho work but oven even so ao thousands still face death by b hunger The Tho numbers who are aro going Insane In Increase Increase increase crease with every hour hourAt hourAt hourAt At Messina tho the weather is still hUll cold and stormy and nud many man of the injured aro are succumbing to pneumonia The Tae chances of the living still penned In lu Inthe luthe the ruins decrease with every ever day da that passes for the rescue workers are arc still not numerous enough to cope with tho the work in hand I Romo Rome Jan Jail 2 The American gunboat gun gunboat gunboat boat Scorpion will Vim arrive at Messina I Monday when her hor commander will place his vessel at tho disposal of the tae American embassy officials and tho the consular authorities for the assistance of Americans and the protection of their Interests in Sicily The Scorpion like other o lor foreign ships will trans transport I port refugees from the affected dis districts districts carrying messages and co cooper cooperating oper operating In Ia all possible ways with the au authorities in the tho alleviation of distress If In the meantime the tho bodies of Con Consul Consul sul Cheney Chono and his wife are found tho the Scorpion may mar transport them to Naples whence they will be he shipped to tho the United States Returning from a visit to tho the Gala CaIn brian coast const north of ot Reggio King Vie Vic Victor Vietor tor Emmanuel sent the following tele telegram telegram telegram gram to Premier I have hoyo Isted eight miles north of or Reggio which was literally razed to the ground Villa San Gio Giovanni GIovanni Giovanni vanni also was destroyed As at Mos Mes Messina sina the rescue work Is well organized The Tae fires at Messina have now been reduced re to small proportions Three other othor British and French rench I warships 1 have arrived at Messina In compliance with tho the order of the king that the tho royal palaces at al Caserta and aud Naples be placed at the disposal of or too the wounded one hundred Injured per persons persons sons from Messina already are occupy ing a portion of the Uio pal palace palace ace aeo the royal roal providing everyN every F N x thing The duchess of Aosta has transformed trans transformed formed into a hospital the largo large hall of or hor her palace at Capo Cape DI Dl Monte lIonte Tho The Duke of or Aosta has now gone to Reggio leggio where he Is continuing his work of al alleviating distress It Is said here lucre that a n train which left Reggio early In tho the morning of or orthe the earthquake carrying passengers and of or which nothing has been heard since sin co was overwhelmed by b the tidal wave following tho the earthquake Almost all the tho people of Reggio and Messina It Is said aro are making up their minds to abandon their beloved cities As an indication of tho the progress that Is being made In bringing order out of or chaos the tae railway line lino from fromI Reggio to Cantanzaro was again put In I operation last night There Is a break bron bronon on the line lino however of six hundred and fifty feet over Oo which passengers and freight must be bc transferred from one train to another The Tho distribution of food also la is being wing made mado more regu regularly regularly regularly in the tho affected districts and I many mati of tao tae starving people pare have been temporarily Many Man persons living along the coasts of Calabria and Sicily paddle out In canoes to the large steamers passing through the straits and request and receive food from lom them Pope Plus Pius has made mado another gift of oC to tho the relief fund Tho The pontiff has never neer so much regretted the tao loss of the tho liberty he enjoyed as pati patriarch larch of Venice No Now v is il the tho time that he Ice would like again to bo ho free tree to pawn his hi pectoral cross for tho the benefit I of suffering mankind |