Show IMPOSSIBLE TO ACCURATELY ESTIMATE NUMBER OF DEAD Messina Jan 16 An estimate ot of the dead In Messina as a result of the catastrophe of or December 28 made mado by Stuart K Lupton the American vice consul on bo alt of tho the American em oni embassy bassy hassy at Rome places the number at Mr Mo Ir Lupton estimates also that there thore are arc today toda still sUB people In the thc l city The work oC or getting Information information mation concerning Individuals who were in Messina at al the time of tho the earthquake Is extremely extreme difficult as ast there t undoubted still arc re tens of thousands under tinder the tho and other tens of o thousands have scattered them themselves solves selves throughout Sicily and anel the peninsula The rho people still in Messina are arC camping out In the tho t outskirts and it ii has been heen impossible to take talce any an census of them thorn Mr Lupton left leU today toda for Catania to establish an American consulate there |