Show W MIN U E RT H am H E HORROR ROWS AS REPORTS COME FROM STRICKEN CITIES bowns in southern italy and sicily visited by earthquake and tidal wave are almost totally destroyed Thoa thousands sands of people losing ther lives refugees driven mad for want of food in spite of relief measures in progress district has been turned into vast hospital home rome As reports come from southern italy and sicily of the dam age done by earthquake and tidal wave the world stands aghast at the horror of the situation messina and reggio have cally cily ceased to exist in the ruins ot of the former city two thirds of the in habitants lie buried while at reggio one onelia half lf the people lost their lives messina counted and reggio 50 souls messina Is to be evacuated entirely aa as soon as possible the disposition of the dead is one of the greatest problems confronting the authorities two days spent amid the ruins of messina and reggio bring convincing evidence that the horror of the situa tion in the straits of messina has in sense been exaggerated messina and reggio were not the anly towns visited by the terrible earthquake halml cosenza cas atno s ino and bagnara suffered terribly and in the monteleon region bigosa BI laosa seminara san glovanni giovanni scilla laz zaro and cannitello and other vil tit lages are in ruins the radius of ruin and death ex tends back with decreasing intensity tor for forty miles on the main land and toi fol thirty miles in sicily the accounts of all survivors agree that the devastation was accomplish ed in less than one minute the s rata rats below the strait slipped along the line of a fork then s pk tidal wave rushed 1 in and out and all was over all u bay that when the shock came they felt an upward thrust of the earth followed by an oscillatory mo ton t on and the crust of the earth vl vi berated curious freaks of the earthquake were everywhere to be observed standing walls had fallen out expo ekpo in ing one tier of the rooms above and in which nothing seemed to have been disturbed pictures hung craight tra ight on the walls lamps were on tables and vases and flowers on man tel pieces there Is reason to believe that the deva devastation tation by earthquake in calabria and sicily Is not yet at an end several minor shocks were expert encee saturday and a nd many tottering walls were thrown down but it Is not known that any persons were killed rahe new quakes are starting the fires afresh and the people are in a condi alon bordering on panic during the first few days such bodies as were recovered were laid out in long rows for possible Iden identify tiff cation but as there were nere very few cases where any of the dead were recognized they are now being cov ered with quicklime when this ma t rial is available otherwise chev are being left to decompose where they are feind to ind now all the efforts re being directed to getting the sur livors away experts who are in messina study ing the cause of the earthquake gen brally agree that it was the result ot of a fault in ahn th geological formation und r messina which constituted a line of concerted volcanic action be tween mount vesuvius and mt etna and that a slip occurred similar to the one which detached sicily from tie ti e main land surroundings of the channel in the harbor show that in some ome places the surface has risen and in others subsided the british bat t enship exmouth elmouth near reggio found only fifty eight fathoms of water chere before the earthquake there were ere officers of foreign vessels believe that 90 persons were I 1 filed at ii 1 essina and 30 at reggio the areas of destruction extend thirty miles on the north and south coast of sicily and for an equal distance on the mainland below Rad icena toward the south professor ricco director of the ob eri atory at mount etna states that bis his instruments recorded forty two distinct shocks after the first but trat since early thursday morning the instruments ha hae have ve been almo almost t mo conless tiO etna and Strom St boh are now nor quiet shocks have not ceased rome slight shocks were felt in the earthquake zone friday corn com the ruin of the crumbling buildings these shocks keep up the alarm of the population one quite revere shock was felt at 3 a in and another at 9 fires are still burning although much rain has fallen the iest latest investigation on both sides of the straits mal e it certain that many nore than halt half the population of the coast towns and villages have been I 1 billed and he Is certain that the earthquake atas not of volcanic but geological origin similar to that of 1785 arthur S cheney american consul at t messina sicily and his wife lost their lives in the disaster which de va stated the city just how they met death has not been learned and ably never will be bayard cutting jr american vice consul at milan N v ill III take charge of the consular ser v ce at messina it has been learned that the hapu cine moni moril s at reggio escaped and cid brave work in rescuing the less I 1 of the twenty one nuns at t the convent of can vincenzo dl di I 1 aola only seven remain alive they re now engaged in nursing the wounded A naval observer of the destruction dest luction cf of messina says there were four tidal aves ranging from twelve to thir t en feet high thirty minutes elapsed between the roll ng in of the first wave and the destructive on u s aught of the last at the ministry of marine word has leen teen received that frightful looting americans respond to call new york nearly was subscribed on thursday day to the funds being raised in new york for the re liet lief ol 01 the earthquake sufferers the united states steel corporation con buted 25 and the standard oil company 10 the new york stock exchange added on the list opened at the city hall by mayor mcclellan contributions rang ed from 5 by mrs russell sage to one dollar tendered by an italian loot black fast last as they can be brought in the soldiers are killing the stray dogs that infest the ruins in large num bers hers which are viciously attacking tle injured and rescuers alike refugees from messina and reggio lie ile pouring into catonia and the city Is one vast hospital with each house in it a ward thousands of halt half nude individuals of both sexes have gathered along tie tl e muddy beaches on either side of tj tl e ruins of messina seeking food or t 5 ing to get away by sea many children have died from ex rosure and the cases of madness are increasing messina next to palermo the chief commercial town of sicily with up ward viard of 90 inhabitants Is situ sted on the strait of messina and Is overshadowed by a range of rugged locky peaks it has experienced many vicissitudes it was founded ty 1 pirates and lans about D C about fugitives I om samos and miletus took posses s on of the city and it was given the name of messina it was an imbor tant cant place in the time of the romans and bore a part in the naval wars of caesar and pompey in A D messina was taken by the saracens who in turn were dispossessed by the normans in 1062 messina has been the scene of many battles and leges and has been often devas bated there are no important relics relies of antiquity during the eighteenth century mes ales sina was overtaken by two over N helming calamities a fearful plague in 1740 from which 40 persons died and an earthquake in 1783 which destroyed almost the en t re town messina lies on the line of contact of the primary and dary formations on which boundary boin bo idary dary earth carth quales es between etna and ve divius are al most violent A severe bombardment in september 1848 by the neapolitan troops also caused great damage and in 1854 the cholera carried off no fewer than 16 victims the earthquake of november 1894 also left many vis ible traces of its destructive force regg reggo across the strait from mes is na where the full force of the earth quake was felt on the italian side is also an old city its origin lost in t addition frequent Fie quent mention Is found of it in the works 0 of f latin writers it was captured by the goths in and was rebuilt by charlemagne in the ninth century it became a part of the italian kingdom in 1859 and at the time of the earth quake was a thil ving little city it was vas noted for its churches works of art and for an insane asylum one of the best managed philanthropic in in italy taormina another city that has figured prominently in the dispatches since the earth e is down the coast of sicily from messina it has in recent years become a popular resort for tourists at the time of the disaster there were many americans and nd english there its scenery is said to be unsurpassed anywhere in the world and its climate in the season is perfect like a all 11 other 0 t her q cilian cities it is noted for its churches convents and works of art it was founded years before christ and has had an event eventful ful his career it was the football of v arring mo monarchs Darch tor for centuries the american ambassador lloyd C griscom has appointed a a commit tee of americans to which will be er trusted the worl wort of utilizing the woner receded from the united an undesirable C it zen st paul escaping in an open row boat across the mississippi river amid many bullets fired by united states deputy inspector harris whom I 1 e eluded in the st paul union sta non ton hugo defour fought in vain tain for freedom on monday he ile soon was recaptured by the inspector harris and his charge arrived from portland ore bound for boston where the Iri prisoner will be deported as an unde mirable citizen decoir dafo ir Is charged ith encouraging illegitimate traffic hom the orient states state to 10 the best bell advantage of ol the eartha lake sufferers the united states Is far ahead of other batons nat ons in the relief ambas griscom has h succeeded 51 cc ed e d in I 1 find fin d ing an austrian lloyd steamer ot of 8 tons capable of carra carr ing 1200 1 passengers he has chartered the steamer s earner for two week weeks and it la Is being loaded with medical supplies and provisions this will cost 60 50 in addition to supplies the amer lean ican relief vessel will embark six doc doe tors and twenty male and female nurses three of the latter being american girls from new york who volunteered their services american energy has been strong ly manifested in the work looking to the relief of the earthquake suffer era ers ambassador griscom and the rr embers of the committee have as fumed personal responsibility tor for the expenses of the expedition relying upon the american public tor for funds both at messina and reggio the guards are having difficulty in pro teching the survivors and the vast treasure in the ruined buildings from the bands of thieves that are swarm ing everywhere it Is reported that six russian sailors have been shot by the looters at messina and that six teen criminals have been killed at the same place within twenty four hours six hundred persons engaged in pi laging have been arrested in an engagement at reggio between the police and bandits two of the police were yere killed the sufferings of persons still buried burled in n the ruins of fallen build who are slowly dying from hunger Is awful to contemplate dead bodies have been to fo md ind which bear nute testimony miny of the torture en dured before death relieved their sufferings several of these persons have died from the gnawing at th their air arms and carlds evidently delirious us from pain and hunger other baill bodies es af 44 t t 74 mount vesuvius as seen across the bay front from naples and pillage occurred at reggio this place already overwhelmed will have few fw survivors as it has been imps able s ble for the relief expedition to leach it messina which was the center of the terrible maelstrom and whose diagle history has been marked by tidal waves and war la Is the greatest sufferer the beautiful little city has been almost totally destroyed and tte loss of life will in all probability ipach 80 nearly every house in the city collapsed the line of pal sees which surrounded messina on the sea side are nothing but ruins ahe few walls still standing enclose nn immense cemetery the line of palaces as it if it had been crushed by gigantic teeth it is at the risk of life and limb that res cuers auers are going among the ruins of the stricken city in search of the bodies of former happy and prosper us is res dents in the Calab nan district reggio v as the center of the earth s up beadal while the buildings here withstood nith stood the shock to a greater ex tent than in messina the city is a vast pile of ruins the deaths in reggio are placed at 20 it Is es timatea that at least injured persons I 1 dersons have been taken from the ruins in this city alone hospitals bave have been improvised on garibaldi square and they are constantly sur i funded by multitudes of almost i ude vile survivors beseeching bread food supply depots have been dished at other points in the ruins and long lines of people graying praying lin floring and cursing are awaiting the lations that are being handed out as brought from the ruins had portions of shawls and particles of clothing in the mouths and one woman had bad her teeth firmly fixed in the leg of a dead baby the archbishop of messina has bag been found still living in the ruins ot of his palace the hands of all the nations have been extended to italy in her afflic tion from rulers have come mes ines sages of condolence and from the peo rie spontaneous promise of that aid aich chich brings the world closer to gether in time ot of great calamity great britain I 1 ranee and russia have sent their warships quick as the hash flash of the telegraph teles raph could carry the orders to lend assistance to stricken cities relief funds have already been started and a hundred ships and trains are on their way carrying supplies and reinforcements to the south rome milan florence naples and ether cities are sending physicians police and firemen mobs of ruff ruffano ans battle with sol d ers in stricken city reggio A state of most frightful inanchy prevails mobs oj 0 ruffians ioa loam in among the ruins giving full vent to their vilest instincts they are ere pillaging the wrecked jewelry and banks and do not hesi tate to shed the blood of those op losing them A few soldiers who ec escaped aped unhurt have been impelled by an admirable spirit of discipline I 1 lo 10 0 org organize anize patrols on their own in illative they are endeavoring to protect the property left intact but the criminals fight them the num ter of these criminals has increased lo 10 such an extent that the soldiers bave on several occasions been forced to fire on them king and queen spend four dayl days among the ru ns of calabria and sicily rome having done all that it waa was possible to do in the districts laid waste by the earthquake the king and an queen of italy returned to home rome they had passed tour four days among the ruin of sic sicily ay and calabria the king direct ing the work vork of rescue and relief anc the queen administering to the ired there Is a feeling of relief in italy that their majesties are safely at home |