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Show HORRORS AS SEEN ; BY WMJARCON! Rome Jan. 17. William Marconi, who returned here todav from Aves-Bano Aves-Bano on board the train with King ictor Emmanuel declared words were Insufficient to describe the horrors hor-rors he had witnessed The town bad beon leveled, he said, and those Of its residents who had escaped death in thr disaster now -.vore destitute "Kmc Vietor Emmanuel told me.' Marconi said, "that he had visited the scenes of all the earthquake disasters In Italj since be tvaa ; child but this one surpassed all others, even Including .Messina The klnc said the survivors of V.vezzano were only between 2 and : per cent of Its population, pop-ulation, while in Messina one-third Of i he people escaped." Describing the damage don in Aveszano Marconi said "Aversano has ceased to exist in Messina some buildings especially the palaeS along the sa from glv one l he Impression that they nr- still Intact In-tact then- facades having BUrvlved the Shock while only theif Interiors fell in No so with V.vezzano No wall there remains ereet It Beemed as though the town bad been ground to DOWdei by some gigantic machine." Search Debris for Injursd. The people of Avezzano, according to Marconi, have abandoned their ef forts tn take the bodies of the dead from the wrerkap: and are jtlvins theiT entire attention to tp-in to rescue res-cue the hvinc who are prisoners in the debris 'ib.' catastrophe was nf such vast proportions, Marconi said, that no organization or-ganization of men could possibly have done anything to give immediate rnllnf TV, l - ,. : .1 : at Iheir pow erlrssness to render aid to those who called for help from their places of entombment. "During (he first day of the disaster' disas-ter' Marconi continued "the rescu-ers rescu-ers were so few the could not even attempt to excavate at places from which cries of distress came, and planted pole? here and there at sui b spots, hoping to return later with moro adequate forces of men to release re-lease the Imprisoned persons. When would-be rescuers did arrive, however, howev-er, most of the voices were stilled find the poles were merely markers of spots tinder which lav the dead." Heard Cries for Help. Manon1 personally heard coming from under the ruins of the girls' Ott) 10 s;.to sqq oriRzzavy ut (oorjos of the pupils, imploring aid. The girls said they were uninjured. They were protected from injury by a piano pi-ano under which they had fallen and which became wedged In the wreckage wreck-age and ai ted as a screen from the tumbling walls of the BChoolhouse At first, choked by dust and lntn- numbed by cold they had remained for two days without nourishment and in spite of tbe strenuous efforts to release re-lease them the girls were still pris oners when Marconi left Avezzano for Rome Prior to his departure. Marconi said he endeavored to organize small parties par-ties of men to attempt to extinguish fires which had broken uut at several points among the debris, ,ind which he added undoubtedly had burned to death some of the pinioned victims The difficulty of fighting the flames was almost insurmountable because water was almost entirely lacking in the town Mr Marconi left Rome, tonight, for ondou |