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Show Diary Told of Deaths. A grim diary was revealed to searchers amongst the ruins of Messina, Mes-sina, who have brought to light the bodies of five people, members of one family, named Arrigo. Beside them was a diary, which tells how the unfortunate un-fortunate individuals spent 50 days after the earthquake entombed amongst the ruins of their home. They lived on salt bread and dried fish, which they found in the larder, washing the unpalatable meals down with wine, which they were also fortunate for-tunate enough to find. The writer of the diary, a son of the family, who was a college student, outlived the others, and the diary closes with phrases which show that at length ho had to lay aside his writing and await the end with what fortitude he could muster. |