Show r I THOUSAND PERSONS KILLED BY EARTHQUAKE I Ii i i t pI I n JI I r p r i j THROUGHOUT CALABRIA AND SICILY SICilY fJ 1 FOUR IMMENSE PROVINCES I OF ITALY ARE DEVASTATED t M Messi Messina To a 1 C. C City 0 of f N. N Ninety Th Thousand d P Partly art I y D DeL Det De- De e elt lt E- E Eti L st t ti red ed Catania Great Sicilian City In un- un t iT t. f t dated g T r te d an and V d x-J x Thousands I v l-v j v 1 t k d x 4 s Are V 1 D Drowned I Im A T x-vy x l i ii rv f t J v V i Condon r London dop Dec Dee 29 11 a. a m. m Twenty m.-Twenty Twenty thousand persons lost their lives in earthquake in int r t Italy tai Y The Daily Mails Mail's correspondent at Cantania Sicily wires that half of Messina was 4 d destroyed stroy d. d I c A dispatch from Rome reports that the minister of marine has received dispatch from J torpedo boat Spica dated Marina De Dc Calabria stating that man killed i hundreds injured and a great number of buildings destroyed l Ro Rome e December An earthquake at 5 o'clock this morning spread death ruin and d r pa throughout the department of Calabria and over the island of Sicily Several thousand thou thou- I I tJ sand were killed in Messina alone it is estimated The four provinces of Calabria Cozenza Cozen- Cozen I i za zat Cafa aro and Reggio which form fonn the toe of Italy's boot and teem with people O 1 iwer devastated f Cf r Mess Messina Sicily's second second c commercial city with h people was vas partly destroyed I I many 1 persons were killed and hundreds of buildings fell j s V J Catania on east coast of Sicily with inhabitants was vas inundated The smal- smal A J 71 iTer T r cities and towns and particularly villages suffered severely Owing to the fact r. r J the telegraph and telephone wires were almost completely destroyed it is impossible r t obtain tain even an approximate of the number of lives lost or damage done r CAmp in Jn Open J Aro ro said to have flave been been f f it At San and the tho po pula- pula S. S oJ Js It camping out In tho air all j open orion x tj graphic communication is comP com com- P op ott off with Pizo on the tho Gulf Gult vIi t o of ot a 0 town of ot nearly ly 10 wiL h iva ica wrecked h b by the tho carth earth JI 6 ko of t 20 and It i is Js feared damage j- j there I Is I. ver very large larce from froni 1 Gordo bot not tar far from PIzzo aro t t effect t that at there thora was a a. a 1 1040 of t. t life UCo At Aota Agosta two to i p bl hes i and several housea were ere debut dob de- de deI I b but no DO 11 liVes were lost a k-ho k The rho prisoners rs Jn Jh tho jail made th their el r I f 1 P I ap and h liberty g e. e crowd fon fOil tho streets I we f cali d Q quiet was 1 4 r t CIlI 1 t falls C b nU I Ca 4 ld J. t 00 er ero crock p tumbled d down Th The ld Id Into the open country I Santa nt 54 and Nolo Nob al aO sla shaken aacen en In Catona the at afoot of or Mount Aetna tho hi shock lasted lut d t t abOut iO 20 0 seconds and wa waR accorn- accorn ta b bY an jan upheaval val of oi the Gulf Gult oCt oCt oC of t pausing causing much damage to the t I nG 1 I 8 Ste e Wave ae Approach 1 o approach of or tho water was seen t f J nd the tha p people Ople tJ fled from tho docks ind o n r the water ater front into tho the town It Ite fi e a not ot known whether any lives were oat A number of or fishing lishing boats boat were ero and three steamships in port e ro more or leN lew damaged An Aus- Aus steamship the tho was vas vasa a r eArly Much duch uch I liso on the tho docks was washed away At Palermo railroad and wire com com- ft was as Interrupted hut but no loss 1088 hof t life Is reported In tho interior of iJ Bleil landslides were era accompanied and andr r i the quake f t man in n several towns where troops were guarding convicts the latter r and a a. number of them thorn es- es r I earod Mong th tho coast CORst areas reas b lying low land sank into tho the sea lieu t f. f |