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Show 12,000 DEAD IN 1 ! ITALIAN C!H ' J 1 j Avezzano. via Home. Jan. 17 The j earth shook again today for tbout i fen seconds. The shock occurred at 2:10 a. m.. and consisted of a sen : tie rocking movement. The people 1 left their shelters and gathered in i i the streets, where they remained, ' I fearing to return. Avezzano, Italy, Jan. 17, via Rome. Twelve thousand bodies, it is semiofficially semi-officially estimated, are buried under ; the fallen walls of this earthquake-ruined earthquake-ruined city. Rescuers believe there J still are many living beneath the tons of debris and desperate efforts aro I I being made to rescue them. - Most of the irregular masses of ; Btone have not yet been touched with Pick or shovel. This Is the fault of I no one, because it would take 100'' I workmen several days to turn over and excavate what has been slovs ly j quarried and built up during cen-i cen-i tunes Taptain Plsani Yettori, who : has charge of the relief work here, j estimates that there are 15,000 dead H i in Avezzano, Cappelle .Maglia.no and mh I the villages in this immediate d-j d-j trict. Up to midnight Saturday. 50" ! bodies had been taken from the ruius. I These were laid out irregularly in I open spaces all over the city. 'x |