ITALIAN EARTHQUAKE
WIPED OUT. OLD MAN WAITS FOR DEATH. LONDON, Jan. 19. An Italian correspondent, describing a journey through the earthquake area, states that he arrived at a magnificent green plain. In the centre was a great grey spot. He asked an old man: "What's that stone quarry?" The man replied: "That is Maghano."' This was a town formerly of 4000 inhabitants. Ho asked, "What arc you doing here?" The man responded, "I have lost my wife and sons and everybody and am now waiting for death." HEAPS OP DEAD LAID ON ROADSIDE, RELATIVES SEARCH FOR THEIR OWN. (Times and Sydney Sun Special Cables). ROME, Jan. Iff. There were eleven shocks yesterday. Fifty thousand houses out of a hundred thousand were affected in the district. The dead at Avezzano have been collected on the roadsides and weeping men, women and children are searching' in the heaps of bodies for relations. A daughter of Count Resta was res cir-d alive on Monday. Though aged twenty her hair had gone white.
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Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 118, 20 January 1915, Page 5
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