Show EARTHQUAKES SHAKE ITALIAN COUNTRIES iti Ill avs 1 and Destruction in Its Path Cities and Ships Suffer and People Art Are Thrown oto Panic Defies Adequate Description i 6 ROME ill Dec 28 Southern Southern Italy was vas visited by a aWE WE ke this morning The center of serious sioUS and fatal eai earthquake ili p he disturbance e was in Sicily and the greatest loss of lifeE life E- E and d property occurred on this island The reports are as asIT asI ast yet ret IT I t incomplete but the people everywhere were thrown i into to a condition of panic At a Sicilian E a number of houses were shaken town rn of people Bt lown and i the the inhabitants fi fled a for safety to the streets I I v Vast crowds gathered in the parks and the churches chinches ire are filled At a small town miles southwest st of C tania several houses collapsed and the scenes of panic anic w It re repeated f. f At Cat Catania ni th the doc docks s a and d shore front were overwhelmed over over- whelmed by a tidal wave Much damage was done to sl shipping ship ship- being damaged At Catania the ping ing sever several l steamers sho shocks ks lasted laste twenty seconds At Agosta A osta in the provi province ce of Syra Syra- several houses and i-aie i ie e two churches demolished but no lives lost T The e ler were ere prisoners in the local jail made their for liberty t through rough the tho praying rods on the streets Troops were out and quiet was restored There Thero shocks hoeks also at Sana San- San cre ere a Sa crina and Noto ioto all aU in in Sicily The latest reports from Calabria say gay hat three dead and sixty wounded have ha remo removed d from tho the ruins rains of Stefan een en called caled in to n Soldiers ts s h have hv been as olI tho Or ofiE ft CC T The ave e b been Ven en ordered also to tear down d buildings in n ord order to minimize he danger dancer r from falling walls Sixty persons are arc said to have BUS BUS- lined ined ivories at G and tho the is camping campin out in the open ir lir Troops everywhere are engaged ed in in he work of rescue FELT ELT IN mW WASHINGTON WASHINGTON Dee Dec 28 AlL S.-An An earth earth- j of ot very moderate force but quite ed was recorded by the weather instruments last Dl night ht Professor Ir n estimated that the thc great reat force If f. f f the earthquake was felt about ales away corresponding corr spondin ho he said los losely- losely ly to the distance between Wash Wash- and Calabria 5 ALSO IN FRANCE France Dec 28 28 A A sl slight ht earth earth- lUak was experienced hero here this morn morn- I BC coincident nt with the disturbance in in taly aly lj Ho No 0 damn damage e resulted I BAD QUAKE TODAY Italy Dec 28 An An earth earth- e shock was felt let here today Many hon houses s were shaken to the round and it is said eald there many fX APLES PLES Dec 2 23 Kin Kin King Vict Victor n Em Em- sancel who is shooting near Naples receiving r eivin the first reports of the in in Calabria issued orders lUIke preparation for a trip to Cala- Cala la z should the circumstances warrant IA CATANIA Sicily Dec Dee 28 A A tidal we no ro swept into this port today tho reut ro- ro alt ut of ot the earthquake disturbances The Tho tople on the water front were thrown tto it an indescribable condition of fear lIe be approach of the water was seen and andi i arp p cries crie of warning ran rang out The Ther Thele Mple le fled from the tho docks and water r font nt of the tho town LONDON ONDON Dec 28 A S.-A A dispatch rc- rc ed ved ived h here rc from front Catania Sicily says t b 6 Swedish steamer Asta the Austrian garner teamer an and tho the Italian tamer wore were damaged dama ed today by bya byi 11 a i earthquake and consequent tidal dis ells r ance at that port The rhe extent of e injuries to the tho vessels is not given I B- B I |