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Show INJURED LIE MANY HOURS UNDER RUINS SITING SUCCOR Avezznno Scene of . Hor. org as the Rescuers Attempt to Reach Victims Still Living Avezzano, via Rome, Jan. 14. Aczzuno is tilled with dead and wounded nnd wrecked houses. It is liko thu ruins or a cemotery. Those who escaped tho destruction caused by tho earthquake went hcrolca'ly to work to rescue those penned under the fallen walls. They could not seem to understand tho delay In dispatching dis-patching aid to them from Rome and other centers, forgetting that more than twelve hours passed beforo knowledge ol the gravity of tho dls aster reached the outside authorities. I Nearly all the civic olllclals of Avezzano, Including tho mayor, the under perfect, the Judges, tho com-inunder com-inunder of tho carbineers, parish priests, monks and nuns, perished. ' Tho college, with more than a hundred hun-dred girl students, collapsed. The governor or prisons, Jailers and tho doctors nnd patients, In the hospitals wero car.'ied down In tlio wreckage I Few Survive to Give Succor Tho only notable person wno our-vlved our-vlved wus tho head or tho police, Slg nor Ottavl, who, though wounded, has labored since tho first overthrow to give succor to the Injured. Desperate appeals for help are heard on all sides from the under wrecked build-lnei, build-lnei, but the efforts ot Ottavl and the few hundred survivors have availed but little for they lacked Implements with which to effect a general rescue. But about firty persons, all of them wounded, were taken out with great difficulty. Thoy lay for a long tlmo without shelter and without their wounds being dressed owing to a lack ot medical supplies. Later doctors arrived and operated on Homo of the injured by tho light of blazing torches. tor-ches. Thoy wero then removed to tho station, where they wero made as comfortable as possible In trucks. Assistance came at last from Ar-zoll Ar-zoll and Aqul'.n and this morning largo rescuing parties arrived rrom Rome nnd I'essaru. Thirty thousand soldiers hnvo boon distributed throughout tho earthquake district und al omly largo quantities nr nrovlsinnR and clothing, together i wlt'i wood for tbo construction of huts, have arrived. I A tour of tho towns and vlllagos around Lako Fuclno disclosed vast I iti'Htructlon. The town of MugUano in tho torrltory of tho Moral, Beems to have been ripped open. Its bis torlc beflry which roso about 300 reot, collapsed. In tho church below a'l tho chape's wero .ruined oxcopt Hint or tho Savior, whero tin Immenso cruclllx Is standing, Intact, whllo everything ev-erything nbout Is scnttorod and bro-''rn. bro-''rn. Bishop of Pesclnn Missing At Peselnn tho cathedral bolfr nnd I tho houso of tho bishop havo ontlro ly disappeared No trace of Monnlg nor lluguoll, tho bishop of Pnsclna. and twenty Ca'molltes living with him has been round nnd It Is reared that all have perished. Tho work ot rcscuo at Avezzano was corrlJd on with much grcntor vigor this afternoon by tlio soldiers nnd skilled workmen who arrived from all sections, and still despairing despair-ing appeals could bo beard rrom those burled. Ono boy was round un injured Insldo aMiJovo. Two nuns wero rescued Trom a collar col-lar und nn o'd man wns taken rrmn tho basement or a houso where lie had been protected by a wn dm" j which md fnllon across tbo wall |