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Show VOL XII Ogden, Utah, December 30, 1908. Lives Are Lost m$mi Hern Appalling CHS TWENTY FUMES I NO. 313 BIG Si Gatasfrapiie FIRE IN SALT LAKE THIS MORNING COMPLETE RUINS RESULT Fire broke out In the Mining Exchange building of gait Lake thia morq-inand bad almost completely destroyed the building before the arrival of the tire department. The loss Is said to not exceed 912,000. Meningitis Rages Without Medical Aid What- g WITH NO WATER TO FIGHT DEATH SEALING FOE OF soever. THOUSANDS ALL RAILROADS AND HIGHWAYS DESTROYED BY FIRE Only One Great 4 4 4 OF ESCAPE OF says the chief danger now Is from plague, as thousands of bodies lie unburled in the streets The general advocates the Immediate cremation of all bodies, hut people are already beside themselves and will not permit this added grief. Trouble is greatly aggravated owing to the inhabitants' utter loss ef nerve through stupor that seems to affect everyone." The authorities regret the presence of the king and queen, who, they say, wil he unable to help and will only tie the hands of other officials better fltted for the work. It la feared that some one insane from suilering might attempt the assassination of the king and the queen. Morgan Gives $1000. Ten thousand dollars has been received from J. P, Morgan. Six Thousand Square Miles of Sicily and Calabria Devastated, Making Complete Greatest truction in Modern Des- History-M- ost Horrible Disaster Which Ever Befell Humankind. 4 O 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4- - 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 444 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 - SO. General Dec. Feccla de Caasale haa started the burning of bodies at Mes- sina. At least twenty cities are All wagon In flames today. , ROME, roads and railroads sre de- strayed and the only access to the stricken districts Is by wa- ter. Stromboll has become active and another quake haa been felt at Palermo. The misery of the victims is heightened by chilling rain storms. Estimates of the deed vary from 105,000 to 200,000, but an authentic estimate Is Impose!- ble. General Caasale at Met-Bins has requested that more soldiers be sent there, express- lng the advisability of asking other countries to send troops. The devastated region In Cala- brla, Sicily, la believed to cover It extends 0,000 square mllea from the neighborhood of Mon- teleone, north throughout the southern half of Calabria and from Messina to a point well beyond Catallsaetta, almost in the interior. The work of rescue at Messina progressed favorably today. The steamships removed many of to the wounded and other coast towns. Friends, having relatives In the affectedregion, were given free transporhalf-erase- Train loads of d Messina 4 4 tatlon, though the government 04 0 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 is urging all to remain away un-- 4 less they are Intending to aid In the rescue. All feetlvltlea have been abandoned, the theaters closed and New Tear's celebra. All railway tluns postponed. and telegraph lines have been placed under government auper-- 4 vision. WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 At a meeting today of the 4 4 4 20 execu--4 tive committee of the American Red Cross It was decided to send $50,000 to the Italian Red Cross. This amount is the surplus from the San Francisco relief fund. 4 4 4 4 4 - 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 x 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 rescue. Doth wept and scores Insane survivors of almost gathered about the couple, In the throwing themselves mud, the result of the tidal wave, screaming and uttering unearthly sounds. The queen was terroretrlcken and clung to the king. Many of the unfortunates attempted to kiss the hands of the king and queen and prayed to them as If they were saints. - 4 BERLIN, Dec. SO. The Ger-4 man and American consulate 4 buildings In Messina were 4 wrecked, according to. a dls-4 patch via Rome received here 4 today. There Is no mentioncon-ofthe safety of the German 4 sul, Edward Jacob, or Cheney, 4 the American consul. 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 i 4 4 4 CATANIA, Dec. SO A man named Gregori, the city chem- arrived here 1st of Messina, this afternoon. He explained 1450 1511 1020 1007 1072 . Naples . . Ragusa Schamaki Port Royal, JamalcalOOS 1098 1708 1708 1700 1710 1720 1781 1782 Sicily Aquila, Italy Jeddo (Toklo) Abrussi, Italy Algiers Palmero China Naples Lima and Callao Grand Cairo Kaschan, Persia 1 . ..1740 1784 40,000 10,000 70,000 5,000 80.000 8,000 100,000 8,000 200,000 15,000 20,000 0,000 100,000 1.000 18,000 40,000 40,000 50,000 12.000 20,000 1.000 45.000 80,000 40,000 1.000 2,000 20,000 0,000 0,000 Domingo Point-a-Pitr- 1842 5.000 1848 5,000 14,000 2.000 10,000 5,000 Quad- - e, aloupe Amalfi, Italy . ...1851 ..1850 ... Great Banger Calabria, Italy .1857 Quito 1850 Erseroum, Asia Minor 1858 A in. 1861 1888 Manila 1887 Mltylene Peru and Ecuador. 1867 Santander, Colom- 1875 hla 1881 Java Sclo 1882 Asia Minor 1888 1886 Cashmere 1887 The Riviera Tunnan, Chins . ..1888 1881 Japan . . Mont Price erup- 1802 tlon Valparaiso, Chile.. 1806 Mendosco, 8,000 7,000 1.000 1,000 25,000 8a Ran Francisco ....1800 Kingston, Jamulca.1807 Total 14,000 40,000 4,000 14.000 8,000 2,300 4,000 6,00 80,000 1,500 452 - 1,100 1,800,551 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 44444444444444444 4 4 4 4 4 UNABLET0 TESTIFY 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 several 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 1 4 4 If NKIO inns Absent in Philippines, Brought Out in Ye- 4 sterdays Testimony, Retracted. opened In VANDALS ENTER 4444444 ADDITIONAL 44 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 DESTROY Catastrophe Re- corded in History Which Was as Bad as Present Ital- ian Disaster. CATANZARO, Dec. 80. The captain of the Carblners who haa arrived from Kvgglo, says the im covers the city and no buildings are standing. He ald, the town waa not swallowed up by the earthquake, hut the sea rolled In a mighty wall of water, aud engulfed It. 1 think tliat only a few hundred out of the entire population escaped. The lower part of Uw town is rapidly settling and It la feared will drop Into the sea." ROME, Dec. 80. Fires are raging in many of the ruined towns, according lo reports to the minister of marlno. In Mrsalna the Area have been controlled and rigid enforcement of martial law has brought a semblance of order. In some sectloni.huwever.only the bullets of th soldiers awe the looters. Deputies are arriving In Rome today to hold a special session of parliament to vote relief measures. The pope insists that his plate is with the sufferers. Messages today from the warships swamped and will require many days to an adequate relief system. Refugees are scattered for miles In every direction. Pneumonia and meningitis have broken out. How to feed the starving Is a serious question. Plans for rebuilding the railway Intj Reggio were pushed today. A train-loa- d of workmen and material was started for Itegglo. A telegraph station will be established near the city us soon as possible. It Is feared that Cannattelll and Lassaro, adjacent to Reggio, have been destroyed. Wife While Husband Was 4 4 4 OF EPIDEMIC at Messina say tliat the rescuers are the water 4 FLUSHING, tec. 20. Judge Crane boat dropped and hit 4 declined to revoke yesterday'a today of the 4 the bottom, the force prosecutions witshock demolishing It, and he he- - 4 order excluding the nesses from the court room. McInlieves that all on board were 4 objected and was overruled. lost. He himself reached the 4 tyre Minnie Ropne, the colored servant shore on the wreckage and pro-- 4 in the captains home, resumed her cteded to Reggio, where he 4 - 4 testimony, correcting yesterday's peofilled with streets found the statement, explaining that she was pie who were literally Insane. 4 mistaken in. saying that she told the On the public square he found 4 of his wife's alleged misconcaptain 4 an singer, opera Tina Marlnla, from the seated among a pile of dead 4 duct the day of his return (todies, crooning over a cage 4 with two canaries. Although 4 the birds were chirping, the 4 singer was bewailing that all 4 the birds In Italy were dead. 4 From Reggio, Gregori went to 4 Messina and then came here. He 4 declares that counts by soldiers 4 indicate that the death rolls in- 4 Reggio and Messina will ap- 4 proximate 50,000 each. 4 4 aandchasm the - Philippines, and. declared BIG BATTLE It was the following Sunday. It waa announced ARGEL CITY In court today that the mother of Thornton Hains had colin the hotel and possibly lapsed would be unable to testify. McIntyre LOs ANGELES. Dec. 80. A1 Kauf-man- n sent hla assistant to ascertain her conand. Jim Barry are acheduied dition and Is considering the matter of to go forty-fiv- e rounds at Jim Jeffher presenting deposition. ries- dub In Los Angeles tonight. Mrs. Annls swept majestically into Wlille no title goes with the match, the the court room while Rnpner told of winner will practically he acknowlthe alleged relations between Annia edged as the white heavyweight chamand Halns. pion. The winner will also be offered After noon court took an adjourn- a match with Jack Johnson, but Kaufment until tomorrow on account of man, should he win, is already on recthe Illness of Attorney McIntyre. ord as being unwilling to box a negro. ICO QUAKE BREAKS CABLES PEBI1M A report from Messina this afternoon states that the bodies of thirty of the Trlancrla, ninety guests In the Hotel have been all Germans or Englishmen, recovered. All bore evidence of suffocation. s arose the A telegram from the prefect of Mesat defendant the SO. The delay, Dec. In RAN FRANCISCO, the corpses that stated command and stood unmoved ; court's maximum sentence fourteen years In through the recital of Judgment. There ' sina number tens of thousands It Is to describe the disorder and the penitentiary provided,for the brib was no demonstration on the part of Impossibleamount of assistance can he no that during the proceedings j ery of a supervisor, was the penalty the spectators The need of provisions Is excessive. meted out last night to Abraham Ruef, In the court room, nor later, when The Russian battleship Admlr--a- l ven urgent the entered prison who for four years directed the polltL Ruef, having Makaroff, arrived at Naples today cal destinies of San Francisco as ad- In the custody of a deputy sheriff, start- 'with 400 Messina survivors and the viser of the administration of Eugene ed In the dusk on his long ride to the steamer Therapla English tramp E. Selim its, former mayor of the city. county Jail. who were a load noof Injured court brought of Before the adjournment at the Judgment was pronounced on behalf sent to hospitals close of a day devoted to legal battle, tice of appeal had been filed court had the and the Introdefendant, to of wherein the defense sought which NAPLES, Dec. SO. Late this aftercause, of writ a probable trial. signed duce many reasons for a new in the execution a of act as stay "When Judge William P. Lawlor had will (Continued on Page 8.) denied this and other motions Involving cate. 11 . 4 4 a ferry boat 4 4 4 that he was aboard 4 4 Just outside Messina when the 4 4 4 quake came. He declares that 4 General Feed de Cassato Is taking 4 the strongest measures to prevent the 4 catastrophe becoming worse through disorder. For the present he - will 4 maintain a practical dlstatorshlp. He 4 semi-stupefi- 4 Lisbon 444444444444444444 Misconduct of Hainss 444444444444444444 4 4 to have been are arriving, most of them fearfully blue Jackets are reported in Messina of hank Sicily on killed. The were placed injured. Many who to wireless message Messent the following trains twelve miles outside of Palermo to today: the city, nearest the approach sina, died en route to Palermo. Nearly all and unof them were able to give any coherent accounts of the disaster. In a clash between blueJackets and outlaws Immediately fol- 4 Naples 4 4 4 444444444444444444 survivors! lowing the quake in Messina 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 Cilicia 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 both dead. Their bodies have 4 4 4 hot yet been recovered. 4 4 4 PALERMO, Dec. 10. The 4 queen swooned upon arriving 4 at Messina today and medical 4 assistance was necessary to re4 vlve her, and it was some time 4 before King EmaiHiel and the 4 queen undertook to direct the 4 4 4 Tear. Lives Lost Place. Tear. Lives Lost. 11ST 15.000 Calabria, Italy , . .1825 1,000 1168 20.000 Martinique 1821 700 1208 80,000 Cape Haytlen, Ban Place. Cantania City Syria , ..1755 4 1755 4 Lisbon 1755 4 Fes Morocco 1759 4 Syria ...1707 4 Martlnlco 1780 Taurla 1788 4 Calabria 444444444444444444 1707 4 4 Bolivia , , 4 1805 Naples 4 CONSUL CHENEY AMONG 4 4 A 1810 India MESSINA. IN DEAD Kutch, 4 4 1822 4 4 Aileppo 4 1828 Spain 4 WASHINGTON, Dec. SO. 4 4 Murcia, Chins . . ...1880 4 The following dispatch haa been- 4 4 Canton, 4 received state the 4 depart4 by 4 ment from Consul Gale at 4 4 44 4 44 4 4 4444 4 4444 4 4 Malta: Consul Cheney and wife are 4 4 444444444444444 4 44444444444444444 DIE Secure Entrance, Breaking Windows, and Literally Tear and Break Right and Left FUMES OF DEATH Me-sin- i ! ! I I SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 80. Van- dals broke the stained windows, valued at several hundred dollars, and entered the Jewish temple Emanuel last night. They overturned pews, ripped off the costly altar cloth, tore draperies and destroyed statuary. They attacked in a similar manner a week ago SL church (Catholic), when the altar was destroyed.the vestments torn, the sacristy ' clock broken, the mass books ripped and blasphemous entries scrawled on the walls. The police are investigating. Nothing was taken. Do-mlni- MABURT, W. Va Dec. 80. Over a hundred persons are believed to be imprisoned in a mine of the Lick branch colleries company, as the result of an explosion yesterday afternoon. The company refuses to tell the figures of the number in the mine, and will not allow anyone to approach the entrances. It Is stated that there were no less than two hundred men In the mine at the time of the explosion. Seventeen were removed, twelve of them dead. MATBURT, VT. Va., Dec. 20. Up to this morning forty-twmen had been removed from the mine, twelve of whom were dead. It Is believed that aixty to a hundrd men are entombed. The mine employs 400 men, but many had Just left work when the explosion occurred. Officials of the mine admitted at 11 today that thirty men were buried in the debris, and all are believed to be dead. It Is feared that the fatalities will be at least fifty. o |