THE EARTHQUAKE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9348, 18 January 1909, Page 5

THE EARTHQUAKE.

rescue of obildebn. United Press jassooiation.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Rome, January 16. The rescuers at Messina found under the ruins hoy aged nine. He told them that his sisters, aged twenty and twelve respectively, were also alive. Both were forthwith extricated. All had subsisted for_nineteen days on onions, wine, oil, dried figs and water. The mother was crushed to death. The father is in America. Many bodies are still lying unburied in the streets. The odour is terrible, though an immense quantity of disinfectants is arriving daily and being actively used. \ A MARVELLOUS RESCUE. .Received January 18, 8.45 a.m. Rome, January 17. A woman, aged 70, has been found alive at Messina. She was in a terrible plight and had lost the power of speech, but is expected to recover. Rations are distributed daily to 6*4,000 people. THE AMERICAN RELIEF FUND. New York, January 17. Half~a million dollars of the sum voted by American Congress will be spent in building material and the construction of 3000 frame houses in the earthquake district.