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Show FOURTEEN THOUSAND BODIES BURIED IN RAILROAD . CEMETERIES 9,000 Refugees Have Left Aessina and 9,000 Persons Remain Horrors of Sanitary Conditions are Unspeakable and Oniy Roughest of Surgical Sur-gical Attention Is Possible 400 Wounded -Persons Were on Hospital Ship Without a Single Nurse Hundreds of families have been left without bread winners and thousands of persons have been maimed for life, tlon Is possible. Tho horrors of tho sanitary conditions condi-tions in Messina are unspeakable and only tho rougaest of surgical atten- After sleeping one night on a plank without covering from the rain, tho correspondent of the Associated Press tho next night took refuge in a hospital hos-pital on board ship where there wero wounded persons without a single nurse. All night long the piteous crie3 of the distressed persons for water wero unheeded because of the lack of attendants and several of them died before daylight. Many women among the rescued prematurely gave birth to babies. The difficulties of removing too Injured In-jured from Messina and Reggio is increased in-creased because of the fact that there are no docks and it is necessary to transfer them by rowboats. The first cases of typhoid fever have broken out here. This fact will cause drastic action ac-tion to be taken immediately for the disposal of the dead. The hope of rescuing any of the living beneath the ruins has been abandoned. Until tho present time, all attention has been concentrated upon the removal of human hu-man bodies from tho streets, while tho carcases of animals killed by tho earthquake earth-quake and those of dogs and cat3 shot by the patrols, have been left hlng where they fell. The decay of these canases has greatly augmented the danger of tho spread of disease. EARTHQUAKES OCCUR AT INTERVALS OF 20 MINUTES O Reggio, Jan. 5. Earthquakes O O have occurred here today at O O intervals of twenty minutes. O O At noon a quake stronger than O , O the others, caused a number O ' O of standing walls to collapse O O and created a condition of O O panic among the survivors. It O O U not thought there were any O O casualties. O O 'O coooooooooc Messina, Jan. 5. Earth B'uocks are continuing here, although they are diminishing in Intensity. At night especially, are they frequently felt. The fires in the city also aro being gradually extinguished. The official figures compiled thus far p'now that partem thousand bodies have bees Iturled in railroad ceme-terio. ceme-terio. that 9.000 refugees have left Tne city and that 9,000 persons still remain here. Instead of excavating In an endeavor to find the bodies bur-Jed bur-Jed beneath the ruins, It has been proposed that every house in which it is believed persons are burled, shall be covered with quick lime. The Associated Press correspondent correspond-ent has made a visit to Reggio and 0 oarefullv inspected the town. Tho number" of persons killed there and tho damage dono to property was much less than at Messina. Only the central section of the city was damaged. About 5.000 troops are working there. The official figures place the wounded wound-ed at Reggio at one thousand and the refugees at seven thousand. The number num-ber of dead In the ruins Is not known, j Reggio has been practically evacuated evacuat-ed except for the troops and the marines ma-rines from two Brltlsn warships who Are causing the populace to evacuate Villa San Giovanni, which is considered consid-ered to hac been the" center of the earthquake, j Numerous persons, still living, were 1 taken today fa.m beneath the ruins, while the volcVs of others could be distinctly heard appealing for aid Within a few days, the rescue work at 1 Reggio will have ceased. Then the tottering tot-tering buildings will be razed and the bodies that have been burled will bo burned. The Associated Fresg had the fir&t correspondent on the scene at Mes-plna. Mes-plna. He found a condition of utter ' confusion existing. The first hhock of 1 1 earthquake virtually Tiad thrown down the entire city. The Italian soldiers were overwhelmed and in a state of i bewilderment wandered over the ruins in squads numbering from three to i fifty men. Little work was done until ! the arrival of crews from the Rus-rlan Rus-rlan and British warships, which work- 1 ed valiantly. Especially was this true j of the Russians. The bodies of the dad lay everywhere every-where on the surface of the ruins, and limbs protruded here and there from the wreckage. The small first aid stations sta-tions were overcrowded with Injured and scores of others were hastily established es-tablished as soon as possible by Re-i Re-i lief corps from Italian ci'ies and t'.ie Russian, French, German ana uriusn warships. Iarge numbers of the sun Ivors were crazed bv fright, and panic seemed to 'nave laid hold of all. In the camp of h the refugees, pltcuuH scenes were en- j ;j arted. Many persons threw them- j) selves upon their knees bepging for j ' bread, while five minutes' walk beyond j I were orange groves, rich with ripe i fruit. The fear for their safety seemed seem-ed to hold them petrliied In thU small haven of refuge. 1 Constant light shocks followed the ( flret great disturbance until forty-five 1 were recorded. The Associated Press i correspondent paw one of them throw 1 down mar, of the remaining walls of ' the city, the ensuing crash greatly In-tentdfying In-tentdfying the panic of the populace. The flret Italian troops to reach Jleftslna were largely from the Sicilian garrison and commanded by Sicilian officers. Scores of them had lost relatives rela-tives or friends. One officer said that he had lost seventeen, relatives all 1 'niB children, his wife, father, mother, j A brothers and idstors; and yet the government expected him to command I a relief corps- The home of Mr. Cheney, the American consul, was , ' crumbled to dust in the first shock I and its Inmates almost inextricably pinned beneath the ruins. AH of the Americans who 'nave not been hoard from, mav be considered tafe. Prob- !ably all are in the south of' Sicily. .Thoso who are known to have suffered from the earthquake have been report- j ed. The telegraph and telephor.fi wires l have been placed at the pervlce of the , f;. government, and personal message ( ! I will be delayed indefinitely. j The Associated Press correspondent ' found amid the ruins of the Hotel ' Vlttoii, the blackboard with the full list of the guests of the hotel dearly f written upon it on the night of tae disaster. It bore besides the name of Smart K. Lupton, the American vice-consul, vice-consul, who escaped, only two other I-ngllah names, those of British subjects. sub-jects. The ditatter waa distinctly rn Ital-, Ital-, Hn one, except for the American. 1 French. Turkish and ScrU.i con.-:K f tW;c of the chaplain and a few Ger-1 Ger-1 man clerks. Money how is needed for relief. I S |
