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Show VOL XII. Ogden, Utah, December 29, 190S. NO. 312 Fifty Thousand Known Dead In Italy From Quake, Tidal Wave and Fire iilil GIS SIGNS BELCHING D A WATER TO QUENCH Xing Emanuel Rushes Relief-Subscri- FLAMES Start-e- d ptions Italian Daily Newspaper, Tribune," Re- 4 - lieves 4 4 4 4 Complete Roll of Victims Over 100,000-C- Devastated. ity 4 I 150,000 dead. lt LONDON, Dec. 21 (4: 22 P- - m.) go appallng are the latest return from the scene of the quake that the London newa agency la completely at aea regarding the actual number of dead. As more accurate reports are received through various reliable channels the figures of the dead and Injured continue to grow. News from three different s thla evening fixed the esagenc-lc-timated number of dead at Messina at 50,000. ROME, Dec. 20. The complete destruction of Messina was more the of the tidal wave than the tremor, according to a trainload of refugees who arrived In Catania from Messina. They assert that gigantic waves overwhelmed the refugees, gathered from surrounding districts, completing the great ruin. Part of the city was literally dropped into the sea. The refugees further say that the dead In Messina are officially reported at 1.800, which ia far underestimated. It is believed that at least twelve thousand were killed. The Hotel Trinaeria. having ninety guests, the town hall, telegraph station, post office and barracks were rained by the quake as If a giant had been handling so many toys. ABE RIIEF WILL ROME, DEC. 29. REPORTS ARE OF THE COMPLETE DESTRUCTION OF MESSINA. A CITY WITH A POPULATION OF 150.000. A COMMERCIAL DISPLATCH TO THE ITALIAN GOVERNMENT TODAY, EXPRESSES THE FEAR THAT REGGIO. ACR08S THE STRAIT OF MESSINA, HAS BEEN AND DESTROYED, STATES THAT MOST OF THE TOWNS ON THE STRAIT HAVE BEEN DESTROYED. RAILWAY COMMUNICATION HAS BEEN REESTABLISHED. BETWEEN FOUR ANd FIVE THOUSAND HAVE PEOPLE BEEN ACCOUNTED FOR BY THE ARMY OFFICERS IN CHARGE OF THE RESCUE TODAY. ACCORDING TO REPORTS RECEIVED HERE, AND THEY SAY THE WORK OF RECOVERING THE BOD. IE8 HAS 8CARCELY BEGUN. SOME OF THE OFFICERS ESTIMATE THE TOTAL NUMBER OF DEAD AT UPWARDS OF $0,000, WHICH IS RELIEVED TO BE A GREAT EXAGGERATION. ALL ITALIAN SEISMIC APPARATUS WAS BROKEN BY THE SHOCK. A LATE EDITION OF THE TRIBUNE HERE ESTIMATES THE EARTHQUAKE VICTIMS AT BETWEEN AND 75.000. 5,000 AND THE DEAD AT TWICE THAT KUMBER THE INJURED ARE SUFERING DESPEERATEL1 FROM HUNGER AND EXPOSURE. 44 4 4 44444444444 444444444444444444 GOLDEN GATE CITY in Messina. 4 Judge BULLETIN ROME, Italy, Dec. 21. A late despatch thla $ evening t8the ministers eatl- mates ths death Hat at Messina 4 as 50,000 persons, alone, now 4 making it almoat It almost post- SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 29. After tlve that the complete figures 4 of the dead will amount near 4 several delays Judge Lawler announced to 100,000. 4 that he would give counsel for Abrahom Offers of aid from throughout 4 Ruef, convicted of offering a bribe to Supervisor Furey, until 4:30 this afterEurope are coming In. but until the Italian government grasps 4 noon to submit authorities showing althe situation no appeals will he 4 leged misconduct of the justice In conas Inadmatters made. All gratultloua offers of 4 temporaneous then would and evidence missible be will and naval aid military pronounce sentence on the guilty boss. accepted. 29 Dec. WASHINGTON, The state department today wired a request for quake in-formation. 4 4 8PORT8 PUT PR0BLEM8 BEFORE LEGISLATURE The SHERIDAN, Wyo., Wyoming Sportsmens association will make some Important recommendations Pope Gives 200,000. ROME, December 29. The 9 to the next legislature. Some of the 6 more Important ones follow. Pope $200,000 gave today to King Emanuel and $100,000 That elk and mountain aheep be profor the relief of the quake vie. 4 tected by a colsed season of live years tlins. Public organisations and in the Big Horn mountalnse; that antelope be protected for a period of live municipalities throughout Italy on making enormous contrlbu- years; that the open season for deer tions, and In other countries 4 be from September 1 to December 1, that th re are similar movements. 4 and only adult males to be killed; five years; Several hundred foreigners, O sage fowl be protected for that the open season for geeae and Including many Americana, were In Messina ducks be from September 1 to Decemat the time of the limit; that the shock, but no word has been re- ber 1. with a 1 from any of them. v open season for fish be from June to December 1. Dec. 25-bi- rd 4444444444444444 Iff HUB AT Ilf 28. ESTIMATED AS AS 100,000 AND Troops in Conflict With Looters Many Killed This Source French and Italian Battleships Are Steaming to Scene to Patrol the Stricken Districts. Malta station, ROME, Dec. 29. A great crowd the king and queen, now en ted out." route to the scene of the diaaater. The The tremor waa felt throughout queen refused to allow her husband to even reaching to tha Alps. go alone. Overcoming the protest of the king, the royal party started at 1:80. Ambassador Griscom, a ho was the only diplomat rognlaant of their departure, offered the condolences of America, saying that tha San Francisco disaster caused his countrymen to fare-welle- d WINMP appreciate the situation. The king and queen thanked Mr. Griscom and directed the conveyance of their appreciation. Italy, GETS HANDSOME JOB CATANZARO. Dec. 29. Out of a 9 population of 25.000 In Reggio, 80 First Assistant Secretary of per rent have been killed or wounded, according to reports this afterTreasury Replaced by Beek-manoon. Martial law prevalla, SMS . SUBSCRIPTION FOR RELIEF CHICAGO, Dec. 28. Relief subscriptions for the quake victims were started here today. the n Winthrop. WASHINGTON, Dec. Dec. 29. Twelve thous- Winthrop of New York, the present entire world, and Italy promptly aent and are dead In Messina, according t assistant secretary of the treasury, funds here. Andrew R bar boro, presi- the latest reports. It la feared that announced this afternoon that he had dent of the Italian American bank and hundreds are still alive under the the first assistant secretary-shi- p head of the Italian colony, today con- ruins. Flamea are sweeping over the aropted of state, replacing Secretary ferred with the Italian consul with ref- city. Bacon. erence to Immediate action. Former D. memmayor James Phelan, an active CATLANTA, Dec. 29. Sima of volber of the Reg Cross, ha announced canic activity were noticed today on ROOSEVELT SEND8 CABLE that an appeal for funda will be Issued mount Etna and It la feared thnt an OF CONDOLENCE TO KING this afternoon. PALERMO, SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 29. Mayor Taylor and other prominent dtlaena this morning began plana and will probably call a mass meeting to start a Lawlor Grants Minor Delay fund of contributions for the' Italian earthquake sufferers. The feeling of Interest In this city Is particularly deep Sentence This AfterIn view of the disaster of 1900, when contributions came from almoat the noon. 50,000 a 4 4 4 29 FIFTY THOUSAND KNOWN DEATHS CAUSED BY EARTHQUAKE AND TIDAL WAVE IN THE ITALIAN PROVINCES AND A LARGE TART OF SICILY, IS THE BEST ESTIMATES TODAY. THEWAVE LEFT A TWO FOOT LAY-- 4 ER OF MUD AND SLIME OVER MESSINA. WHERE SCORES OF PEOPLE WERE SMOTHERED. FIRE IS SWEEPING OVER THE CITY, WITH NO MEANS OF CHECKING IT KING EMANUEL WAS HERE TODAY. EN ROUTE FROM ROME TO THE AFFECTED DISTRICT. A SQUADRON OF BATTLESHIPS SAILED TODAY FOR MESSINA, WHERE THEY WILL DIVIDE AND PATROL THE COAST REGION. THERE WAS A CLASH BETWEEN SOLDIER 8 AND LOOTERS TODAY. THE TROOPS FIRED AND DROVE THE LOOTERS INTO THE MOUNTAINS. GENERAL COSTA. ALSO AN ARCH-RISHO- P AND THE COMMANDER OF THE GARRISON AT MESSINA. ARE AMONG THE DEAD. BE 100.000. a 4 4 4 NAPLES DEC. "ERE Other figures say that not less than 20,000 perished In Reggio and surrounding territory. Tonight one London agency estimates the total number of dead at 150.000. The consensus of all reports estimates the dead at about a 4 4 4 4 4 4 4444 44444444 44 444444444444 44 444 444444444444444444 eruption PARIS, la Imminent Dec. 29. FYance today or- dered the battleships Jultlce, Verlte and three destroyers to Messina under forced draft to aid In the rescue. HAIIIS TRIAL SELFJO PRESS Mrs. Annis Present and Judge Leader Simpson Writes United Crane Commands That Unwrit- Press That Good Citizens" ten Law Farce be Omitted. Started Rumpus. ETNA, Cantanla, Dec. 29. Great fear prevails here that Mt Etna will belch forth In eruption, as detonations can be plainly beard, the rumblings resounding among the mountalna and sounding like Innumerable armies In action with cannon. RESTORE TELEGRAPH SERVICE. ROME Telegraphic communication has been restored aa far south as Palml. The entire city of Palml was wrecked and over 800 of Its 10,000 Inhabitants were killed. No estimate of the dead at Giovanni, CINCINNATI. Dec. 29. Berry Simpwhich was swept by a tidal wave. Is son, the alleged leader of the strikobtainable, aa communication has been ing miners at Stearns who' fought the cut. Bagnara was rased and la burning. deputy sheriffs on Christmas, In a lethundred dead are reported with ter to the United Press, defends him- Three 500 Injured out of a population of self and declares that the miners have 7.500. been unjustley pictured. He declares No word has been received from that If the governor had Investigated Torchedo, but the fleet la known to some good cltlxens would have been be off Messina. found guilty instead of the miners. The British battleship Exmouth and cruisers Euryelus. Minerva and Sutlej STEARNS, Ky., Dec. 29. The M- have been ordered to Mesalna from the irers strike is practically ended, today thirty per rent of the miners returning to works. EDUCATORS OF NEW STATE MEET IN FLUSHING, Dec. 29. Mrs. Annis and a number of members of the Bay-siclub were present at the Halns trial thla morning. McIntyre Insisted r.n a wpaeration of the witnesses and those fir the defense and the state were separated. Tierney confronted Mr. Annis and declared that he Never saw her at the time of the shooting, but I saw her going from tha dock to the club house, after I had been ejected from the float." Jamea Smy testified that the actions of the captain, who he met every day In the week after June 1st, appeared to be those of an exceedingly eccentric perde son. In his rulings today. Judge Crane emphasised the fact that no "unwritten law" was concerned In the trial. He said: "Adultery la no excuse for murder, and before the case la submitted to the July I will make this so will plain that every man on the Jury he neither misled nor carried away by any mistaken ideas." The Judges Samrulings followed the testimony of uel Chester Reid, a lifelong friend of the Haina family, now attached to the ANNUAL SESSION Dec. WASHINGTON, 29. President Roosevelt has cent a cable of condolence to King Emanuel today, expressing the sympathy of the American people. He stated that the American National Red Cross would Issue an appeal for contributions and would communicate with the Italian Red Cross, 4444444444444444444 RED CROSS SENDS CONDOLENCES TODAY 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 444444444444444444 T SHAWNEE, Okla., Dec. for their third annual convention, members of the Oklahoma State Teachers' aaosctatlon are opuring Into Shawnee today for what promises to be the moet successful educational meeting ever held in the new state. The program for the next three days is an Fort Impressive one, the speakers including army construction department at trouUnder General PreBishop Quayle, Hamlin Garland, the Adherents of the recited family Floor of Courtroom in Elliott City, Where William Sheridan, whothe of Charles Professor Lane, wife. poet; and his captain bles between and Professor O. J. Kern, of Reid swore as to the wife's alleged Georgia, Illinois. wittold Landing of New the Ship the that captain Gives Way Infidelity Atwood Trial for love her admitted wife ness that his for Annis and related "the whole Are Killed. -Trhameful story of her relations." Reid 4 the Negro Injured. AMERICAN C0UN8EL was -J4 pacing then said the captain REPORTED MISSING 4 floor and screaming, My God! My God! 11 e I wish it were all over, I cannot PORT SPAIN. Trinidad, Dec. 29. yesterday. The officers discovered that 4 NEW HAVEN. Conn.. Dec. 29. for doors It down." of an engagement at Macuro be- General Torres, had gathered 500 fob News received Reid Startling erlea and a rush men been No has word Baltimore, Dec. . ver fifty 4 Vampire, Kiplings Reciting snd frantic tween armed adherents of Castro and lowers and waa prepared to resist the commenced as the States Consul, ,.er injured during the trial of 4 from the United was slowly Mid he considered the captain officers of the new Venexuelan presi- boat's landing, and tha Mirsndo put Dr. Arthur Cheney, at a negro, chaired with women realised the floor Messina, of C. E. IIIlL Tha floor of the sinking beneath their feet The negro Tale dent, Gomes, In which twenty men into port to communicate with tha of presuniversity, Claudias to graduate as Reid testified cellar were killed and fifty wounded, was Veneaueian government and get in,n E,llcott City, where tha was one of the first to go to the and it Is believed that he la caucus, when she at ence tri-family the waJ but ; is being held, gave way, carrying with the mass of humanity, dead. tha her brought today by tha gunboat Miran- structions. Hundreds of local among confession concerning her authorities captured repeated wn over one The killed. da. The boat with officers to supplant volunteered to return to Mar not The prepara persona. hundred, lawyer to get relations with Annis, Castro's appointees at Macuro arrived euro and light Torres. prisoner was a victim and the Judge him before he got a chance which she signed. the statement, ing 8 away. anong the Injured. 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