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Show VICTIM6 OF EARTHQUAKE. Italian Government Publishes List of Casualties on December 28, 1908. Rome. The Italian government has published an official return of tho number of victims in the earthquake, which devastated southern Italy on December 28, 1908. At Messina there was a total of 77,283 victims; 27.G23 bodies were recovered and burled; 1125 inhabitants died from their Injuries, and 32,477 persons are missing, lost beneath the ruins. In the other localities local-ities the deatn number: Regglo and district, 7,969; Palmi, 1.734; Villa San Giovanni, 1,092; Gallcco, !.; Pellaro, 922. Several sinau communes have a collective denth roll numbering' 7,108. Today Messina numbers 70,000 inhabitants, inhabi-tants, four-flftho of whom lived In tho town before the disaster. |