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iI?IJIE lSENTINEL ORA Entered April 23, 1V03, at Pickens, S. 0., as Bocond-Olass Matter, Under Act of Congress of March'-3, 1879. VOL. XXXVIII. PICKEa, S., S. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 7,1909. IEARTHQAKE Most Destructive i eration % WIOE CITIES DESTROYED Earthquako rollowed By Tidal Wave, Destroys City After CJy in South Italy and Sicily and Obliterated Smaller Town3 and Villages With out Number. One of the most disastrious earth quakes inl tle world's history occur red on Monday in the lower portion of I1taly incluiding the island of sicilv. The news of the appalling disaster w%as io,t adequately conceiv d when the cables first brought the mesme. No tollg..,m or pen can de pict tIe horors of the awful calanity tiat ]its t allr-n upon that region. L'afer. def:iils covering more ful!y felh horrible ceeurence are given in the following ldispateles. and show that the first news of the disaster came iiowhrv near giving the fall e tAent of tlhe devastation wrought. The immensity of the disaster in southern Italy and Siei,ly can only he meamdnred by the fact. hat it is now estimated that 110,000 people perish ed in Messina and Reggio alone. A --SCore of other towns have been de Vastated and thousands of victi.ms in these places must be added to tlie roll. In the face of this awful total all Italv stands appalled. Nor has the full death-list vet been reacheld. Ship l*oads of furi tives have arrived at Naples and other ports and the vast ma.jority of these are sorely injuied. Other ,t'i -,ari'l remain near the ruins of err limS or wander half-starved, ha.l'-nnked oven\the land. The forees tiat on Monda'.l ovebwhelmed the cities also dest ro1ed the means of subs'isten<t(e. T(kni.01communii caton has been I he with Mis= sina, lie apparts h '- ir stalled ini a riha van% t. e -hev lhave been IIIe inde show I hat hne is oe. Nothinrema:ins of, h (ity blit a m s f tins that ha.we bnswtpt bY fire. A inere hatlu:1l of si ae 1 ing cared for h) the rsein forec'i, but. their dlisross is ereat and it has been in Cre:sed by the violent i rv wind that foI lowed the deln1-e oxf1 rain. Dest i itt,on is everYwhere , -and appalling. Thiert is little fool aid less water. . O -sina's, /ID:100 popilation it e (4nItt fully 70.000 persons pe'i . FortY fhousand people died in R !ri o. l '-spatches stato that the city of Pa-,i ceontains 1,500 dead and twice asl :t injired. Two-th!irds of the town wis laid wnste. All the vil las :,djaent suffTeried as severel'. ,-v evomtider of the battleship Adal Makharioft. confirms the re por. 'f th le deafth of the Americain corn '*e tf Messitna, Arthiur i* . Ch an 'v and Es wife, who were buried in the r o of the c?onsuha te. The~1 BritIish consul at Messina is repotted inintred and his wife andl chdren t( dead. TI is dis'aster has resulted in a 1:0rlos of life than any of our --- fo im!dT;e'idence. Indeed thle _I.s nlhrnvs pe'r-eded by en er'od1 - hO? frrton th'i s has hiapmene.d within frivsecoends. While wanr ord 1'tects the yo'ung and strongr amot(ng the peeple, thle nrescnt enl-ion itv' Ins mowved dewn women and chiil dren, 'i' men antd y'out hs. While in wvar the armies are followed by the :mo't vcem',lete cnwn hospitals,. the number less wvounded in Calabria aind eastern Sicily hnve been left in many -100 Miners Entombed. Mhr,W. Vn.. Seial.-More Ithan 1 00 mnin crs a r" believed to be itl wly ioied in a local mine Il-' Ink Paranch (Collierv (Companov result of a terrifle exilosion. All it long reseurers worked tireless rp to ani ently hour 42 men had - removed fromi the wine, 12 of adead. Only the onain part of -;ine 'has been OXI)lored. I I I,: . KILLS 200,00 rn the Present Gen fsitS Italy cases 48 hours without assistan-e. Even when rescued, it is impossible to house them, everything, available having been filled by the dend. Lack of care and starvation will complete the work that the forces of nature have left undone. The King and Queen of Italy has tened to the scene and disregarding the danorers pro-od .1 fric 1' - - cuing trose injured beneath the ruinl:4. Ani age ia v, .... abaidoned uder a beami that appar ently hand crashel out 1!.; le, reviv Ied for ai moment at the, sho-ts of greetng to the royal pa:r. H.! stretch ed out his Iland and raised his head loix enlowuh to ('all out: 'Now I can die happy. Long life to tle Kilg.'' IIe then fell back and expired. It wa;s learn(d that General Colli lost his life at Maesina. T'he troops atid sailors have been obliged to shoot down robbers who ler.1sisted in lootinlg. ''e resiers at Messina are rapid ly heecming exhausted. The tires have not Yet been put out and there is no water with which to combat the flames. Aanly of the people still re fise to leave the- ruins of their houses. A dispatch received here from Deputy }-elice at Messina says: ''Orannize a sq-adron of volun toers for rescue work. Send us food for we are dying of hunger. A nim lvir of the survivors are leaving for Catania. Reepive them with love and fraternity. It, is the (litv of every family in Catania to shlter a family from Messina.' Only two mnimbers of the mmici pal council of Messina survived the disasterc. Grev Earthm.iates in Histr,'y. .iatenmiala.Ce-itral Ameri-ae, found el in 1524, destroved by enuthqJuake aid volcanic eru ption in 15 ; the second natemala, established near the site of th,e first. al-nost destroYed bv earrtquike in 1773, suiceeded by tle constilel'on of the present town. Lisbon, Poirtwal. almest. desroved by quake and aecomnanyivn, t'Idal wave, November 1, 1775, with the loss of C,O00 lives. Caracas, capital of Venezuela. de stroyed by earthqupake shoek in 1812. Aleppo, destroyed in I1822. Naples. severely shaken. with ne 7ompanying eruption of Vesuvius Many buildings in Quito, capital of Eenador, shaken to pieces. 1859. Manila, severely shocked, 1863 and I8SSO. Valpariso, Chile, badly damaged in 1880. Earthquake at Colehester and east ern ointies of England. 1884. Charleston, S. C., visited August :ll 19811, basereearthquake, that Aliock down many buildings and caius cr1 loss of life and pro(perty damne-e; ':sturblaiice felt over' entire eastern section of the cuntry. St:. Pierrec and other towns of the Island of Mnrt inijon, destroyed by ei'np'ion of Mos.t Pelce May. 8, 1902: eartln;1ike skoeks through the WVest Tndies andl more than 30,000 lives lose. San Francisco and neighboriner town'us shauken Wcdnesday, Anril 18. 190f, fire swept the ruined districts of the city and the proper'ty loss ran ito the hundreds of millions, with hundr"ds killed. Valpnr'niso nd other towvns in Chile ruined by eu rthoniake August 16. 190G(. andl 2.000 killed. Kine'ston, Jamaica, partially de str'eyd Monday., .January 14, 1900; 800 killed. IBritish Steamer Taken by Chi4 ese. Hong Kong, By Cable.--The TIr fish stcamner Tai On was captured by) two Chinese cruisers, near Kuim (Ghnk. The reason for the enpture ist be lieved to lie in the fact 'that~ the steamer several months ago ran wr a junk and drowned a theatrical . pani" which was on board. Fp rther developments from the captuke are i ornccted Thousands of half nude individuals of both sexes have gathered along the muddy beaches on either side of the ruins of Messina seeking food or trying to .get away by sea. 1VIany children have died from exposure and the cases of madness are increas ing. During the night the warships in Messina harbor throw their search lights on the ruins to enable the res cuers on shore to continue their work. The work of succor is going on fe verisbly but the forces are still woe fully inadequate. The stench from decomposing bodies is becoming over powering. A frightful scene occurred here Thursday amid the ruins of the eus tonis house. Bands of famished in dividnils were groping among the debris in the hope of discovering food. The first of the searchers who were sucessful were attacked by others with revolvers and knives and were obliged to defend their finds literally with their lives. The strug gle was fieree. The famished men threw themselves upon each other like wolves vnd soveral fell disein boweled in defendin.- a handful of dry beanii or n few Nm,nevs of flotir. One of the unfortunates was pinned to a plank by a knife, while clinging to his hand was his little child, for whom he had sought food. The United States supply ship Celtic will go to Messina. after a bri'f stop at Gibralta to give a mil lion and a half of navy rations to the earthquake sufferers. New York on Thursday made up a fund of nenrlv $100.000 as a relief fund. Chicao's contribution fund aggregate $30.000. The American Red Cross is co-operating with the Italian Red (ress for the relief of the sufferine.. Marrie,. in Ccnnty Jail. Birmirea!, Ala.. Speial.-Miss Jessie Coll-ar, of AdM svillo. Ala.. was married to Chester A. Uni, in the county jail here. Rev. Thomas Beard, Episcopil miniister. perform ing the eereM411Y. A number of wit nesses, including relatives of the couple, w-s a1loved by the sheriff tc attend the wedding. Li!n is being held as a deserter from the United States army and was taiken to Fort Oglethorpe, (4a., WednesdAy where he will face a courtmartial. Scientists Working Tor lHumanity'E Good. Baltimore. Md.. Specini.--That ille influence ;nd ef'Orts of t hi leadinL scientists in the <o l!nIt r will b)e con centr-at(d inl th1(l (ffort to establish a national or :ania I I with reiaa tions and rule f 1 iM f own. for th< conservation of diseas- e.nernfly was den,onstrated in the symposium or publie lienith of tle A'nr ean Asso ciation for tho Advancement of Science Wednesyul. Alabama Girl Dies of Uydrophobia Moulton, Ala.. Special.-Miss RIb' Green, (Itigliter of a well-known far. mer' living~ near* Newburgh, died Suni. day a fternoon from hyd ropimbia con. tracted in an ~u'umal manner. A mad dog re!'enly biht a horse ownedl by Mri. D). Grce . fat her of t he young woman. Th'e horeo intr wvent mac and was shot. Miss G reen had slight abrasion onl hter inft wrist ai iin SOme manner('i this beenmtre infCected v.hHie shte was arouind th ht loi se. Mloving Pictuires Immoral. New York, Special.--Moved by the protcsts of ministers of every d" nomination complaining t hat t he great majority of the 550 moving picture shows of Greater Newv York were exhibiting pictures detrimental to the ihorals of the youth of the city mayor McClellan issned a dras tic order revoking almost every pio. tur'e show license. The ey'd.'.o.f the mayor . intimates that thia foca tion is only temporary, but 'ie con ditions under which new licenses will be issued are such that hardly a third of the licenses revoked will be re-issued. A HARD CASE. 'First Doctor-'rhls is a moat mys terlou' case. I can't make anythhbg ,out oft It. iSecond Doctor-Hasn't the patient ITv money?--Puck.lt CARING FOR THE VICTIMS Rations, Clothing, Tents and Othet Supplies Are Pouring in and the Hungry and Injured Are Being Cared For. . Rome, By Cable.-What ' chiefly concerns the government and the peo ple is the progress that is being made towards the relief of those who have suffered by the dreadful earth quake in southern Italy and Sicily. Considerable advance in this respect has been made at Messina, where, ac cording to reports received here, the supply service is beginning to work satisfactorily. The different regions on the coast have been a!otted to various warships and other ships as centres from which torpedo boats and launches convey andt distribute rations and water to the different villages. The Minister of Justice has wired from Messina to Premier Giolitti that large bodies of troops have ar rived and are now occupying all parts of the town. The appalling extent of the diaster renders anyithind like a systematic seirch of the ruins is impossible, but persons are being dragged out all day long and are quickly transported to the relief ships as soon as their wounds have receiv ed attention. The appalling message came on New Year Day that the Ripari Is lands which lie just, north of Sicily had gon down with its 2S,000 imibah itants, bit a messenger boat sent to learn the f:'s has returned with the news that the islands are but little in jured. Only the cracking of build ings make any real damage. Eatimates of Death List. Rome, By Cable.-Estimates of the death roll of the earthquake now cease to noncern the Italian people. It is enough to know that the catas trophe is overwhehning -- figures would add nothing to the grief of the stricken nation, nor move to greater efforts those tinn whoii the work of relief and resene has fallen. Every channel open to the govern ment has been utlized to this end, and other nations have been quick to come to its assistance., even befnre the ery for aid went up. Shiploads of fugitives bave bc carried out of the stricken zone to Natples. Palermo. Catania and other poris, and accord ing to the Minister of Marine, rescue vessels to the number of 36 are now centered in the Strait of Messina, and 5,000 soldiers are being landed on the two coasts. Most important of all now is the question of the living. Thousands of those who escaped the falling walls and the sweep of the tide are starv ing and without clothes or shelfer. They can scarcelv longer survive their sufferings. The first thouhit has been to carry food and covering for these helpless people, and it has nowv been decided by the government to send a fleet of emaig.rant steamers to transport them to other places. Prof6ssor* flieco, e.lirector of the ob.. servatory' at Mount Etna, states that his instruments have recorded 42 dis tinct shoeks after the fir-st, but that during the last 14 hours they have boen almiost motionless. Etna and Stromboll are now quiet andi lhe is certain that the earthquake was not of volcanic hut of geogrnphical or-ig in, similar to that of 1875. The horror of the situation at Mes sina and Reggin grows with ever-y fresh dispatehs. One of the correspon dents places the death roll through out the entire territory as high as 300,000, but this appears to be ex treme. Others make their estimate 200,000, but the omcial estimate as made by the Minister of Marine still holds to 115,000. The tidal wave lasted much longer than the earthquake. During all the time vessels shivered intermittently, as though shaken by some huge ma rine monster. A naval observer of the destruc tion of Messina says there were four tidal waves. ranging in height from 12 to 30 feet. Thirty minutes clans ed between the rolling in of the first and the destr'ttve onslaught of the last wave. 1~ STROMBOLI VIOLENT Eruptions Attended by Earthquake Citizens in Panic But Little In Jury Done-Rescue Work in the StrickenI Regions as Soon One Week Lator. Rome, By C'able.--A violent earth shock running north-southwest and east-northeast, lasting three seconds. Sunday and during which the Strom. boli volcano began eruption, occurred in Stromboli island Sunday. The phenomenon was accompanied by prolonged dull rumblings. The houses on the island were badly dam aged and the populace fled to the streets in panic, but no one was hurt. The weather is intensely cold on Stromboli island. The syst er- of rescue work in Messina has been greatly augmented by the arrival of troops, who are to be seen all over the ruined city in squads of tventy and thirty, pat. rolling day and night. Bodies of them also are working in the ruins by day and until vell into the ni,ht. The movement of refugees froni the villages is dailv increasing in volume. Of the victims buried uider tie ruins few have been rescued !Jlive. It is now clear that the enormous nuirber of casualties in Messina was due to the suddenness iwith which the first shock came, giving but little time to the people to escape from their homes. The tidal wave was not so high as was at. first reported, and would have done little damage had it not been preceded by the earthquake. Tie damage done by firo vas com paratively insignificant. The first earth shook last Monday morning literally threw down the city and alm1oft every street was eompletely buried under the walls that had fallen., furniture and other debris, practically cutting off every avenie of eFcape. Then came the tidal wave to in undate the city and the living and dying were caught like rats and drowned or had their brains dashed out by -being thrown bY the rushing waters against piles of masonry and rubbish. Far i greater havoc was wrouiht in Messina than was bel'tved when the Associated Press cor espondent first passed aruind the onts1irts vith Frank Perret. of B oklYn. N. Y., assistant direcior of t he observatory on Mount Vsuiviis. ni'ring this to a most critierl exami ation was m: of the American <uvIbt. It. a complete ruin-not inlg bikV,' heap af erumb+liiw ano" erished stones, without senblap' of ;is original. shape. It is..niost doubtful if tle res cners wil,V 10be able to recover the bodies y/ried beneath the debris for a few/day.s, but every effort to do so wi4l be made. The French and Turk,h consulates also were raze cohnpletely, 'and it, seems almost im pissible that any of their inmates :6nd have escapled. Officials in Messina sav that thie original estimate of the fatalities in the city probably was not exaggerat ed. The lower part of the city is practically totally destroyed. A Washington special says: ''Pres idenit Rioose"elt has sent two supply ships with .$300.000 worth of suipplies to Italy, that lie will ask Conu'ress for additional aid and t hat he has of fered the use of the battleship fleet to Italy. Blig Ficet at Sucz. Suez. By Cable-The United States Atlantic b)attleshiip fleet, comp!..ing two days ahead of its .schedule thue next -to the longest .run o of its w,oirld girdliner cruise, arrived here Sunday mornuing from 'Colombo, a distance oe 3.440 knots, from wvhich place the fleet sailed on December 20th. The loss of a seaman, from the battleship ijinois. who fel-l overbhoard and was the only accident to mar the voyage from (Colombo. Fire .Still Burning in Hold of Steamer Texas. Savannah. (Ga., Special-The flre in the hold of the steamer T.exaq. tha.t put into fhec Savannah river Friday rninig. leaving her course from Norfolk to JTavanna, is still bnurning~ in the vessel 's cargo. It is now ap naorent. that the vessel will be i:nved1 honLrh slhe is already badly damn..l. by the flee. Most of the cargo in Ihe?' after held is a dead loss.