QUAKE DISASTER

Hokitika Guardian, 28 July 1930, Page 5

QUAKE DISASTER

THE DEATH ROLL. ' fc, 4 1 Doited Press Assooiat ion—By Electric Telegraph .—Copy right. ] . ■ : 5 ROME, July 20. ■' Mussolini has received a report that the number killed in the earthquake totals 2142, and the injured 4551. The ” list is still incomplete. t • FURTHER SHOCKS. : . ROME, July 26 ... The Ariano district has sustained fresh earthquake shocks. . ROME, July 26 i The theory that the extinct volcano,, 1 Mount Vultur has been responsible for the disaster, has been dispelled by the aviators’""discovery that its crater is Intact' and ’is filled with vegetation. iJ THE EINE OF DESTRUCTION. ! !

, ..-t •: ->; ROME, July 26 , ' vTlie ' earthquake’s path of destruc tfon Mis ,v mafk€<i :< by a straight bell tliroughMelfi. The havoc is worst or the hillside" . villages, which .collapset like houses of cards, The whole am presents 5 . an* extraordinary, jreseniblanw to the war time refugee camps. Th< strange; spectacle at dusk .is seen oi everyone dragging their beds into the streets to sleep beneath the trees, at they believe that the worst is not over. ; : FAMOUS PALACE CRASHES. _ ROME, July 26 Avelline’s historic treasure building known as tbe Palace Pompilus, has crashed. with the exception of one ?'!.s Thi'y '-is- a room containing a religious relic. .' ITALIAN KING’S DISTRESS. ■ *”~ROME, July 26 % Khigf-.Victor :Emmanuel has toured tfje, earthquake region, personally inquiring as to the' lossesHe was greatly/.distressed to; learn that of the two thousand five hundred inhabitants at V ; illapova-Albanese, one thousand are iriissing..';. '/ '' (.There -was: a distressing at Ariqno cemetery where simultaneously a mother, her young children and five brothers were' buried in adjoining graves. The Ariano casualty list is incomplete,’ because thd 'Searchers still a re/ 1 hearing < cries of 'distress from the debris.‘ ; • . - HARROWINGSCENES. ..;>■■< ■ »> r~JE, July 26 i , The King of Italy traversed the ruins of of Lacedonia ,nnd found fit the end of it oil old .jn^n..^weeping inconsolably;^ i lHr : wfls 'the*' only survivor of his entire family. His twenty; four children v;and? 'grandchildren had At Melfi, the King was deeply moved nt the sight- of va-girl just taken out of the ruins of her home with both of -her legs severed. Ter*, people “ 'were unearthed who had . been buried since Wednesday. It is hoped most of these will survive. KING GEORGE’S CONDOLENCE. RUGBY, July 26. King George has sent the following telegram to King Victor Emmanuel:— “I grieve to learn of the terrible earthquake in Southern Italy, resulting in serious loss of liife and property and I deeply sympathise with you and your people in this calamity.’ King Victor, in reply, expressed gratitude for tile message. N, ip , RED' .CROSS SYMPATHY. WELLINGTON, July 26. The following cablegram has been sent by the New Zealand Red Cross Society to the headquarters of the Italiatf Red Gross at Rome: “The New Zealand Red ' ''/Cross’ Society extends profdund's'ofrow' and sympathy to your people stricken by the earthquake disaster, and prays your hand may bar strengthened in succouring the afflicted. REMARKABLE ESCAPES. {Received this dnv at 12.25. p.m.l ; ROME, July 27. . Instances of remarkable, escapes from the earthquake are now being revealed. Soldiers found.three sisters at. Melfi, acred . six . seven, and eight, who had laip for three days beneath the debris. ‘The eldest had both legs broken. Rescuers at Lacedonia heard faint cwies and discovered beneath a cunboard a four months’ old -baby. Both parents were dead, nearby, r/: , PREVIOUS DISASTERS. ,T. e principal ’quake disasters of Ilie wo*;ld of which there are reliable records, together with the approximate loss of life, are as follow: , 1639 (September): Earthquake and eruption of Mount Etna, in Sicily, 60,<OOO killed, 1755 (November 1) : Earthquake in Portugal, 50,000 killed at Lisbon. 1783 (February 4) ; Earthquake ir ‘Calabria, Italy* 60,000 killed. 1797 (February 4): Earthquake oi wdst coast of . South America, 41,00( m killed Quito. • 18S9. Earthquakes at Martinique, 70( killed. 1883 (August 25-28): Earthquake:

and eruptions of the volcano, Krakatoa on the Island of Java, followed by most of the forty-five other volcanoes; many thousands of lives lost and places destroyed. 1 Sl90o: Earthquake killed 1300 at Valparaiso, Chile; property loss 100,000,000 dollars., \ 1906 (April 18-19): San Francisco earthquake and conflagration : over 500 lives were lost • property loss 400,000,000 dollars. (April 17): E arthquake in Formosa killed many thousands. (August 16) : ’Quakes tore down the city of Valparaiso, Chile. 1907 • (January 14): Earthquake killed 1400 at Kingston, Jamaica. In that mqnth the Italian volcanoes, Etna and Vesuvius, were destructively active, also 1 ; the volcano of Manna Loa, Hawaii. ' H I£K)B (December 28): Earthquake in Sipily and Calabria killed 76,000, Messina! partly destroyed. 1920: Earthquake and landslides in Kansu Province, Western China, bordering. Tibet, killed over 100,000 persons. v ; 1923 (September ,1): Earthquake, followed by fires and tidal waves, destroyed pnrt of Tokio and Yokohama, over .100,000 were killed. 1923 (May 23): Earthquake in Japan killed 381, and caused 50,000,000 dollars prdperty loss. ' i 11927 (March 7): Earthquakes in Central i Japan killed 2500. (July 11): Earthquake in Palestine and Transjordhnin killed several hundred. .”.-192,8 (April 14-28): Earthquake in Bulgaria killed 103 and destroyed 14-, 000 houses. (December 1): Earthquake in Chile killed 300. Loss 20,000,000 dollars. 1929 (June 17): Earthquake in Nelson and : Westland, New Zealand, 17 lives lost, 1930 (May 6): One thousand killed and 30,000 homeless in Burma. (May 11): More than 200 killed and 500 injured in Persia. (July 6): Six hundred killed and thousands injured in China.