The Italian Earthquake.
FEARFUL SCENES AT MESSINA. MARVELLOUS RESCUE OF CHILDREN. Rome, January 16. The rescuers of Messina found under the ruins yesterday a boy, 9 years old, who told them his sisters of 20 and 12 respectively were also alive. Both were forthwith extricated. All had subsisted for 19 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, and the odour is terrible, though an immense quantity of disinfectants is arriving daily and actively used.
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Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4362, 19 January 1909, Page 2
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96The Italian Earthquake. Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4362, 19 January 1909, Page 2
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