THE ITALIAN EARTHQUAKE
CABLE NEWS (By Cable.—Press Assooiition.—Co»yright.)
-MANSION UOTJSH Fl'X'D. London, January 15. 1 Tli,- .Mansion House fuud now amounts iu Jl 10(1,000. A FKUTLESS SEARCH. - •VALL'E OF PROPERTY RECOVERED. Koine, .lauuary 15. Troops at Messina worked for three davs fruitlessly searching where cries for help were'heard and then all was silent. Three million sterling worth of property «a.- recovered, also (ircek sculpture and pictures iu a museum aud the j duplicates of the civil register.
A FAMILY FOl'Xd) ALIVE. MANY .lIODIES STILL CXIII'IIIED. UlJlt'XiSK OXAXTITIF.S OF DJSIJfFIX/PANTS AKilUVlXti. Keceived 17, 4.110 p.m. Rome, da'iiuary 10. Rescuers at Messina found under the ruins vc.sterdav a boy nine years of age, who told Iheu'i that his sisters, twenty and 12 yearn of age respectively, wens also alive. Both were forthwith extricated. All subsisted for nineteen days on onions, wine, oil, dried ligs and 'water. The mother was crushed to death. The father is in America. Many bodies are still lying unburiod lin the' streets. The odor is terrible, ; though nu immense quantity of disinfectants is arriving daily and actively used.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 325, 18 January 1909, Page 2
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180THE ITALIAN EARTHQUAKE Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 325, 18 January 1909, Page 2
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