Show LinHIQUAKE U i DESTROY MUKJITIllllllVILUfiB N 1 > > eighteen Villages In Calabria Said to Havo Bepn DeEtrbJOdond Inde scrlbable Scenes of Teror y < Enacted f i I I K t f J Ronio AJI Italy Is suffering from terrible depression lmecaits sp bj the news from o hl l srtuth wliproonb of tlao worst earthquakes ever experienced occurred Fridu Although the earthquake WM felt all over Calabria and to a certain extent In Sicily tho worst Ilfj ws cornea from Pizzo and Monfolconannd from eighteen villages which arc said to have been completely destroyed According to tho latest news received re-ceived 370 persons havo been killed and a great number injured It Is as yet Impossible to oven estimate tho prdperty losses rho shock was felt at 255 oclock In the morning It lasted for eighteen seconds at Catanzaro and soon thereafter there-after was felt at Messlno Reggie MOil teleone Martlnano Stcfucoinl Pisco phlo Trlparnl Zammaro Ccssiinltl Nalda OHvadI and other points Scenes of Indescribable terror ensued en-sued Women aroused from their sloop rushed halfclothed Into the streets screaming with fear carrying their babies ba-bies and dragging along their other children and calling for help on the Alandonna and the saints fIle men escaped Into tho open with their families fami-lies all calling on their favorite saints for protection Tho cafes were taken by assault by tho strangelygarbed crowd but as daylight broke without n repetition of the earthquake the crowd gradually melted away until by 8 oclock the I streets had almost assumed their normal nor-mal appearance except In tho ruined villages where the inhabitants had no homes to go to The general confusion was added toby to-by dreadful cries from tho jails whero tho prisoners were beside themselves with fright and In some cases mutinied muti-nied but fortunately all the prisoners wie kept within bounds Troops engineers and doctors have been hurried to the scenes of disaster to assist In the work of rescue and salvage sal-vage The ministry of the Interior sent 4000 for the relief of the destitute desti-tute and Minister of Public Works Ferraris left for Calabria Friday oven Ing1 |