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Show HUNDREDS IN ITALY KILLEDJf QUAKE FEARFUL LOSS OF LIFE IN TOWNS AND VILLAGES DESTROYED BY EARTHQUAKE. Twenty Thousand People Dead and Thirty Thousand Injured, While Many Are Made Homeless and Are in Dire Straits. Rome. All Italy is in mourning, many families have been wiped out, hundreds of homes have -been leveled, as a result of the terrible earthquake of January 13. The loss of life has been placed at 20,000, while at least 30,000 people were injured. It is almost certain ! that the list will not be decreased, t and it is generally believed that even , more than this number have met. their death. The property loss will reach up into the millions. It is the most terrible disaster since that of Messina, where over 70,000 were killed. The shock was the strongest Rome has felt in over a hundred years, but in the cap-italy cap-italy only one life was lost. The greatest loss of life was at Avezzano, where 10,400 lives were lost; at Maglianomaisi, " 4,000 are dead; at San Benedetto, 400; Sora, 500; Capelle, 100; Isolatiri, 60; Capis-trello, Capis-trello, 50; Solmona, 50; Torre Caje-tani, Caje-tani, 50; Togliacozzo, 40; Cesse, 30; Arpino, 30; Villalago, 20; Cocculo, 9; Antrosano, 7; Bussi, 6; Pescenza, 6; Sassa, 5; Monterotondo, 3; Topoli, 2 Thousands of homes were wrecked and the people will be forced to live out in the open until relief measures can be taken. Many of the walls of homes left standing may topple at any moment and are unsafe for occupancy. occu-pancy. A new peril now confronts the population pop-ulation of the stricken valley below Avezzano. Debris from the earthquake earth-quake has dammed Lake Fucino and, unless the engineers now grappling with the Herculean task are able to provide an outflow for the fast-rising waters, it is feared a break will come and the valley will be deluged. sI iX f V t - ' |