Show THOUSANDS KILLED IN THIRTY SECONDS r iNot Not a House In Great City of Messina Is Standing t tL tl L L 1 O 44 H- H t t i 4 40 4 t 0 w 4 f Republican Special Cable 4 Rome Dec 31 It It Is begin- begin 4 t- t to be he possible to obtain I 4 T- T something of or a precise Idea of off f 4 4 the extent of the catastrophe 4 4 caused by the earthquake Messina Mes- Mes 4 4 sina is JI said saM to look like hike a town 4 that had been bombarded for 4 4 hours by a great war heeL fleet Not Nota 4 f fa a house remains standing st. Of orthe Off or- f 4 the city's s Inhabitants It Is IsI f 4 ff I I f still BUU Impossible to say SlY how many 4 perished There Is a n. possibility f 4 that a n. third have havo survived o a n- n of f 4 1 f quarter or fewer stilL sUll In any f 4 ff f case It Is safe to say that 1004 44 4 4 persons are burled beneath 4 4 tho the f 4 4 O 0 4 4 44 M i 40 4 M to Tn In thirty seconds s Italy lost bat more of her children than did Russia In a n. year ear of of her war with Japan which wa was the most sanguinary In n his his- tory It seems certain that all an the small towns ins and villages that dotted the shore and ad pd hills hUla near Reggie have been annihilated Without counting the lesser er cent centers r rot of ot population Ute the following have ilave ave been almost st troyed Messina Reggio La Lazaro zaro Sc Scylla lla B. Villa San Giovanni l 12 and Palmi I Inland towns and V villages hOog s 1 suffered enormously The Strait of ot Messina n iy Y indeed t he be e said to have have- been the c center tenter of ot the tho cataclysm which spread to the right and left overwhelming cities etHe and kill killing ing thousands upon thou |