Show THE EARTH QUAKED great loss of life reported from provinces in greece terror throughout tor disaster in parish church measures for relief athene april 22 tho earthquake shocks that begun at about 7 clock friday night continued until noon today all last night the oscillation of the earth was noticeable and the people were in a state of semi panic telegraph communication many parts of th country is badly interrupted and it is barely possible to get news from towns eliat must have been affected by the shocks in three villages malespina Ma lesina Pro and martino all in the province of lo 10 cris persons were killed the mayor of that a heavy shock occurred at Proe kina while vesper services were being held in the parish church the walls of atie church tell burying all the worshipers in the ruins hardly a person in the church escaped without injury thirty were taken out dead houses were thrown out in other parts of the village and the money loss is great some of the villagers beine practically ruined at malespina Ma lesina bouses tottered and fell as though built of card board in this little village sixty persons wera killed in dome cases entire families were taken out of the ruine dead at martino thirty nine persons were killed here as at Pro the parish church was the acene of a great number of fatalities in alie vicinity of athens the fatalities were less numerous but the property damage is immense the offices of the austrian and other steamship companies were destroyed the church st elbag between beruil and chale rum has been racked beyond repair and is tottering tott erine alie domes walls and mosaics of the famous Py santine church of daphna are very injured king george in his royal will start tonight for the maritime districts that have been deva eted by shocks he will be accompanied by the minister of the interior and other officials and together will decide upon measures eliat must be taken to alleviate the distress among the people the government will bo compelled to adopt extraordinary measures to help tho people in the districts affected steps to this end have already been taken and the state authorities are giving quick responses to calls being made upon them the total number of deaths thus far reported is but there is scarcely any question that this number will be augmented when remote villages aro heard from As this dispatch was being sent from athene a sharp shock was felt that fora time caused consternation in the telegraph office |