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Show ITALY PLUNGED INTO M0URN!Nfi Most Fertile Lands of Country Are Destroyed by Earthquake Earth-quake Towns Implore Assistance. Rome. Jan 14. The fate of e zano. sixty-three miles east of Romp, and the surrounding Abnizzi countrv. 'ailed the Italian Switzerland, and which has become one of the most fertile lands of Italy, has plunged the whole countrv into the deepest mourning. mourn-ing. In this section, which suffered mos severely from the earthquake of yes-terdav, yes-terdav, there seems to have been a repetition of the earthquake disaster al Messina. It is in part a rockv and inaccessible country and practically practic-ally all communication has been interrupted. in-terrupted. A train which should have arrived in Rome yesterday morn ing from Aqulla has disappeared and sp far it has been impossible to trace it. Despite the fact that communl j cation even bv carriage roads has been interrupted. King Victor Emmanuel, Em-manuel, notwithstanding contrary ari vice, intends to attempt to roach the place of disaster by automobile. News received here from Arpuio, thirty miles south of Avezzano, say. that forty persons were killed there and 110 wounded The Cicero tower at Arpmo. in memory of the great Roman orator, horn there collapsed as a result of the earth shock. The under prefect of Sorra. twentv-five twentv-five miles south of Avezzano. telegraphs tele-graphs that half the town has been 1 razed. He implores for assistance. nn - |
