Show I TRIED TO TL k RESCUE l ce Consul Endeavored to toSe toT T Search Se Ruins of Wrecked Consulate 4 NO HOPE FROM FRO THE FIRST FEW rw f w AMERICAN TOURISTS EVER J VISITED MESSINA MESSI A 1 1 p Rome Bom Jan Jab 2 r Senio S nio i the pro pr riet r of or the house in Messina l whore whort 4 A J n the English consul resided ed et arrived here today He said sahl that ill 1 L the consulate tc there ther has haa not notI I been an in American resident IT in Messina i for l r forty years past The h part of oC the house where shere S rao lives did not fall The Th Italian rushed out of ot the house Immediately after utter the first shock and ana met het Stuart St art D Lupton the American vile vice consul on Ol the street Together the two men raen made thIr their way to Die Ui th American consulate They i found It had hatt collapsed completely and nd they name came to the conclusion that A S Cheney Cheny the consul and his wife wite Wl were te They rhey made a hurried but nue unsuccessful srul search for the bodies Few F w American Victims Signor S IaO said that with Mr Luj Lup ton he lie satisfied himself that the guests at tile tue Hotel was com om completely om f demolished were all U with k Ue tle exception of t the Swedish consul T and an Italian girl He does not nor be j hove lieve U we that there were any any Americana at Iris IlIs hotel where there here were K II number of American Amerlean is ab rib absolutely 4 I I safe It did not suffer from Om the great earthquake In any serious way Continuing says It Is Impossible sible ethic for the wildest Imagination to pic picture lc e ture anything more terrific than tIe the de t Or nf f It seemed se a al It If the entire city had been suddenly trans formed into a whirlpool We were petri petrified j fied with fear It was tas next to tr bleto telo proceed amid the piled plied up W v vr C Ce r age which effaced e ed all traces of all aU for or former orji ji flier mer mer streets There were heartrending f cries from the unfortunates who had hadr r l fled to the streets j Search earch for Cheney I l g over oer broken beams ha t walls wails and quantities of broken t furniture we e finally reached the spot where the American consulate had hael Mood The consular building was about three stories high It had entirely eel col lapsed We could hardly believe belleve our oUry r eyes y s Mr Lupton over the ruins calling Cheney Cheney Choney He H was confident the consul answer him He said zaid tome to me Daylight has not come ome yet and that la Is I why wh I cannot see se him but be he I must mut be somewhere In the thi th wreckage Our search became more ana ano more feverish but as time wore on and it was still unsuccessful we finally realized r 1 its hopelessness We saw It would be impossible to reach even ev n the bodies ot oti r the unfortunate Jn In n addition to the collapse of ot the consulate a neigh nelsn i II boring building had been precipitate l t 1 upon the consular ruins and the ti whole r i Was as a vast mass of wreckage f f Tried to Console Lupton Touched Dy by the of Mr Lup It ionI tried to console him saying that I ii Undoubtedly the had been i vouchsafed the mercy of immediate f I and aId did not linger alive under the th debris I We then Jen the ruins Qt of Mr Che I I Heys 1 s home homo We Ve had done everything I Jn n our power j J I Later Mr MI Lupton and I t together with a party of British sailors went i ashore again n aln Mr Ir anxious I to learn If U there had been any American 1 victims of the quake I Iwas was able abId abl to re reassure assure him as having lived In Messina 1 for tor foty to fot ty years in constant touch with t the American consuls I never knew of or ofa a 8 single American resident Further I few tew Americas America a tourists came to toI L I a aIL IL |