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Show CITY OF ROME IS INJERROR Early Morinng Quake Does Some Damage and Demoralizes Demor-alizes the People. BIG COLUMN TWISTED Immense Bronze Statue of St. Paul Damaged Shocks Recorded in Washington. Rome, Jan. 13, 9:15 a. m So fat-as fat-as could be learned one hour after the earthquake, in the city of Rome this morning, no lives were lost. Nor was it possible to reach any definite idea of the degree of the damage &uf- i fered by the city There was confusion con-fusion throughout the whole of Rome In some cases it amounted to terror. The telephone was resorted to by great numbers of people at virtually the same time in endeavors to ascertain ascer-tain the safety of relathes and friend? land then to learn the extent of the I damage to the city The telephone girls did their beet to meet the emergency. A system of gathering and giving Information was hurriedly inaugurated. It was learned among the old buildings damaged dam-aged was the Palazzo Chigi as well as the famous column of Marcus Au-relius. Au-relius. Historic buildings on the Piazza Co-lonna, Co-lonna, in the center of Rome, also were damaged, as was also the fa -nous Farnese palace occupied by the French embassy. Here a piece of the stone cornice had fallen. The belfry of the church of St. Andrea An-drea is In danger of falling and the building has been surrounded by a cordon of police to prevent people from approaching it. A large crowd gathered this morning morn-ing In the square in front of the column col-umn of Marcus Aurellus At a point about half way up it was seen that the column had been broken and twisted It was at least six inches from its true axis. The immense bronze statue of St Paul on top ol the column also inclines to one side The last serious earthquake in the Rome district occurred July 19. 1899. Rome, Fraacatl, Marino and other towns on the Alhan hills felt the shock and many buildings were dam aged, but there was no loss of life Further Bouth in Italy and in Sicily, however. -arthquake,s are frequent and very' severe. Great loss of life and heavy dncmage to property have occurred in these regions. Washington Jan. 13. The earth-shocks earth-shocks at Rome were recorded here from 2.2?. to 2:32 a m . eastern time. n the seismographs at Georgetown university That would be Korao time. 8:13 to 8:22, according to calculations cal-culations of the observers. |