Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-01-14 | Page 3 | Stricken Zone One of Italy's Most Populous

STRICKEN ZONE ONE OF ITALY'S MOST POPULOUS Avexza no the town from which the greatest number of cas alt es have been reported aa the result of the earthquake. Ilea In the province of Aqulla In the Abruxxl department s xtj three miles east of Home It la an anc ent town and haa a population of aome ten thou aand One of the we preserved ouild lngs there was the towered castle built bv Gentile Vlrglnlo Orslno In 10 stoat of tie towns In whkh damage haa bee done are altuated virtually In the heart of Italy In a I e cunning north east and southeast fron Rome eastward toward the Adriatic sea. The country In the pro Ince of Rome and he depart ment of the Abruai s mostly moun Ulnous but thickly populated Numer ous vl lages i.nd towns dot t e terrl I ton Monte Rotondo has a copulation of I about 5OO0 it was here (n 187 that Ga badl defeated tbe papa forcea. At Tl oL where one pe aon ia said to have he.n K Ued here s a populat on of some 14 000 1 1 ea e ghteen miles northeast of Rome and retains mans of the an iou tiee of the old Roman dajs among him he Temple of Tiber us and the Vlua D Este celebrated for the beauty of ts architecture Pnf s a lage of some 4000 Inhab- "aaoo Pallano eoll Fereto, Pog rto Na e and the other p ace where damage or fatalities are reported a 1 are ""ita y'hss'had numerous visitations from earthquakes ln which thousands of per-eons per-eons have pe shed and millions of dol lars In p ope ty damage has resulted It had faUen to the lot of Italy to suffer what was probably the greatest d saster from an earthquake the wo d ever saw Th s was In Decen ber 1908 when n S ell and Calabria 76 485 per Tons were klUed 95 4 0 Injured and l ioO 000 made nome ea. "" -Hess na Santa Teresa Seal eta and Faro in "el a d Regglo San G ovannl la Ifema Ga 1 co Palmi Pel aro. and Can nltello In Calabria were dee roed The financial loss never was accurate y computed but it ran Into ml lions or Urfw the time of the catastrophe the earthquake at Lisbon In 177 which cost 60 000 llvee caused the greatest number fAuilafttwenty two miles sout which Is In the heart of the zone of destruct on Is a town of 20 000 populat on the s te of extensive manufactures of paper and linen and a bishops see It is one of the most commercial c t es In Abruzzi and was but t by the Emperor Frederick II from the ru ns of ancient Amlternun some estlges of which stil remain Solmona stl 1 another own ln the track of e earthquake s thlrt four ml es sout wes of Aqu a a so n Abruz zo and e g ng oser upon Rome It Is an Into est ng c p c uresque v ocated n e nounta ns and conta ns mans mod e a e s among em he ng o u o la ta Ma a now a nun c pa hospl a he Go hlc church of Vnta Mam rut r nha anl e rombaesl pa a u u ea f o 44K Po it a an tl a Ko nan c o 1 a he a a of a blahu a ae a 1 h a ex a ve ulnufac turea f Ipr oh l aw ea and eauaagea 1 1 aa a populu on of about Zt uOO Capta re a. ano her wn of JOO0 popu latlon ra h ea and one a f n lea from Lake Ku n and alag ano a inutl vl! lag near Avesauno, are bo h reported to ha e bee w ped o t All of these towns and villages are within two I ours rid of Rom At Tlvol elgh een ml e from Rome, ar many antlqultlea of the daya of an dent Home tnc udlng the ample of Tl beriua and tha VII a D Ea e celebrated for the beauty of lu architecture These were In the direct track ot the earth quake