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Show AT LEAST 2,300 PERSONS' HAVE BEEN EXTRICATED ' ALIVE FROM RUINS . Search for Others Will Continue So long as There Is Any Possiblity of Rescuing the Living Earthquake Shocks Still Continue at Rate of Ten Each Hour Fire Completes Destruction of City Hall rtomo, Jan. 7. General Mazza. the commander at Messina, has sent the following despatch to Premier GIo-lottl: GIo-lottl: "Today, as on preceding days, re-arch Is continuing among the debris for Injured. Ten were found today. Tlio probability of finding others 13 diminishing every hour, but the search is going on and will be continued until no one Is found alive. The work of removing the dead for burial is progressing. "At least 2,300 persons have been extricated alive from tne ruins. About I'OO bodies have been buried with every ev-ery precaution. Kvery facility has been given to the refugees to leave the city. I am convinced that their removal Is necessary in the present condition of the city. I am providing for, besides sanitary service and sub-t-iftence, the resumption of essential f.prvlefs, fruch as railways and postal nervlre. Railway communication with Palmero and maritime communication with Naples has been reestablished. Railway employes have been sent to the Calabrlan coast to re-cbtabllsh the railways to Naples. The building of Iioufos has begun and this will be pushed forward as rapidly as possible. The. hygenle condition of the troops is exeellent notwithstanding the hard-Fhlps hard-Fhlps and the Inclemency of the weather. Messina. Jan. 7 Earthquake shock aro still continuing here at the rate of about ten per hour. Fire also has ?galn broken out, completing the destruction de-struction of the city hall and the record rec-ord stored therein. A party of men under the direction of Major Landis. the American military mili-tary attache at Rome, has been work-. work-. In? for four days to extricate the bodies of A. S- Cheney and wife from the ruins of the American consulate. The apartment of the Cheneys has not vet ben uncovered and many feet of wreckage still remain to be removed. Baynrd Cutting. Jr.. Wlnthrop Chan-lor Chan-lor and Stuart K. Lupton. consular Top-rer.cntatlve.s, Top-rer.cntatlve.s, are making every effort to lrcate Americans supposed have been In the earthquake zone at tho time of tlie disaster, but so far without with-out success. Tho authorities have determined to Isolate Messina as the enly means of preventing an outbreak cf Verlous Illness. The relief parties complain that the starving refugees require tho mopt nutritious food and want more care. The efforts In Messina today consist con-sist mostly of gathering up dead bodies and burying them In trenches between layers of qulck-lltne. Out of retpVct to the prevailing religions feeling, it was determined not to burn the dead. The work of relief ia now well under way In Messina, but the smaller towns In the interior are being neglected. Ships arriving on the scene henceforth hence-forth 111 he sent to the coast towns, and parties will Ko Inland with suit-piles. suit-piles. The English have establlshr-d a Kplendld relief camp in the hills behind be-hind San Giovanni. A search of the ruins for survivors is still going on and yesterday, feven living persons wore taken from the ruins. The majority of those now found alive are children and elderly per.snns, who evidently did not expend tnelr energy In vain efforts to free thcaieelve. The policy of clearing Messina waa inaugurated yesterday with the re-fiihfll re-fiihfll of the authorities to furnish peo-pl- with food unless they agreed to embark for other places. This will be dune to discourage peasants coming down from the mountains to take advantage ad-vantage of the free distribution of rations. t |