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Secular News
FOREIGN.
Italy?The Terrible Disaster: South
Italy and the island of Sicily have been
visited by an appalling calamity, the extent
of which cannot yet be grasped.
An earthquake on the morning of December
28 wrecked city nfter city and obliterated
smaller towns and villages without
number. Then a tidal wave swept along
the Straight of Messina and added to the
horrcr, drowning the people in their
helplessness and panic. Fire came to
complete the work of destruction.
Flames broke out in the devastated cities
and countless numbers of wounded men,
women and children were burned to
death. The immensity of the disaster
in southern Italy and Sicily can cnly
be measured by the fact that it is now
estimated that 110,000 people perished
in Messina and Reggio alone. A score
of other towns have been devastated and
thousands of victims in these places
must be added to the roll. Some estimates
plac? the number of dead at 200,000.
The Horror and destructiveness of this
visitation probably will exceed that of
any earthquake since 1873, when 40,000
persons perished at Messina alone.
Reports of heavy loss of life are coming
in every hour from city and town and
nearly every village in the stricken zone
and the story in its detail has only Degun
to be told. The horror grows as
further reports come in. Messina lia3
been fire-swept. The dead there alone
will run into Hhe tens of thousands.
Reggio is a sepulchre of the dead. Catania
suffered severely. Mount Etna, the
volcano on the island of Sicily, is active.
The detonations are reverberating over
Catania and add to the terror. Volumes
of smoke are pouring from the crater.
The work cf rescue is being pushed forward
with every possible energy. Troops
are being poured into the zone, but the
efforts of succor are as vei mieriy inadequate.
France, Great Brita'n and Russia
are hurrying warships to the scene.
King Victor Emmanuel and Queen
Helena .have left Rome for the south.
His majesty will superintend In person
the work of relief. The queen, refusing
to let her husband go alone, insisted upon
shariipg his dangers. The pope has made
an appeal to Roman Catholics the world
over for help. He has headed the relief
subscription list with a donation of $200,000.
There is consternation in Rome.
The telegraph and newspaper offices are
beseiged by weeping crowds, demanding
news. Every fresh telegram tells the
same story of death, destruction and desolation.
No Americans, except the officials
in the Messina consulate and their families,
are said to have perished in the
earthquake. Ambassador Grlscom wires
from Rome that more earthquake shocks
are recorded in Italy, all slight. Three
were felt in Rome. ,
The Refugees: Nor has the full death
list yet been reported. Ship loads of
fugitives have arrived at' Naples and
other ports and the vast majority of
these are severely injured. Other thousands
remain near the ruins of their
homes or wander, half-starving, halfnaked
over the land. The forces that
on Monday overwhelmed the cities also
destroyed the means of sustenance. Telegraphic
communication has been estab