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FIRST EDITION 3-P. M i . ,. onraal 4 fl (The iJmbjmal I VOI-. XVHI. DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON, WKDN'KSVAtf, DKCEMI1ER 30, 1008 NO. SMM. IB E IlJU LIST OF DEAD GROWS LARGER HOURLY NOTB SHOCK TODAY VIOIMT AS FIRST COMPLETES RUIN MIPORNIA AROUSED OVER INCREASED RATES fass Meetings Held Throughout the State Today To Protest Against Raise in Freight Rates Proposed by the Southern Pacific and Santa Fe. Shippers Are Preparing to Put Up a Strenuous Fight. (United Press Leasod Wlro.) fSan FranclBCO, Dec. 30. A grout honcrntlvo mass mooting will Do Id todu ytliroughout Cnlifornln to otest ngolnst tho proposod lncroaso frolgtit rates by tho Southorn Pa lllc and Santa Fo railroads on tho it of tho nppronchlng year. :a final mcotlng of tho oxocutlvo pmmlttco was hold horo last night nd It wiib decided that tho sllonco the railroads should ho tukon ns i Indication Unit tho Increnso would placed In effect. It whb docldod bat beforo nppoiillng to tho courts or Injunction!) to restrain tho ronds l-om enforcing tho rntoa, tho shlp- porB should lay tholr claims beforo tho Intorstnto comtnerco commission and ondonvor to uecuro rodross through th'nt body. Tho shlpporB hnvo iBsuod n final call and It Is oxpected that tho meet ings today will bring forcibly homo to tho railroads tho fooling of tho shlppors and consumors. Intercut In tho appronchlng arrival of Wil liam It. Wheeler, who Is coming to take chargo of tho trnfllc bureau of tho Merchants' Exchange, Is growing moro intonso as tho strugglo bo twoon shippers and tho roads becomo moro.blttor. (Cuntlnuod on Page 5.) GONSUL CHENEY AND WIFE f KILLED IN QUAKE Aff MFCCINA 1 (United Press Leased Wins.) Washington, Dec. 30. Tho Btato dopnrtmont today rocolvod tho fol lowing dispatch from Consul wll llam H. Gale at Malta teday: "Consul Arthur S. Cheney and wlfo both dead at Messina. Bodies not ytit recovered." Tho Btnto department Is Informed that tho American, consulato Is; in ruins. Cheney 1b a nntlvo of Illi nois. He was appointed from Con necticut us consul nt Messina Aug ust, 1907. Sutart I.upton, of Tennessee, vlco- cousul nt Messina, Is among tho survivors. TWENTY CITIES IN FLAMES DEAD MAY NUMBER 200,000 VOLCANO IN FIERCE ERUPTION City of Reggio With 35,000 Inhabitants Swept By Tidal Wave And Almost Eitire Population DrownedSea Opened Aid Let Ferry Boat Drop to Bottom -lost of Inhabitants of Reggio Temporialy Insane Bodies Being Buried By Military, STUPENDOUS MAGNITUDE fMWUIpurvi"'l4-: km Is now in progress at the Chicago Store. The entire stock must be closed out, as we are going to make our store double its present size and we don't want to have our goods spoiled with mortar, sand, dust and lime. This is a chance of a lifetime to buy the newest and best goods t for aboui Half Price COST CUTS NO FIGURE is the way we are selling our goods now 50c full size sheets now 29c 15c pillow cases now 9c Standard Calico, yd 4,fic Best apron gingham, yd 5c Jl.00 white bed spread 65c we wool dress goods, yd 29c 85c fancy waisting silk ,yd 39c Ladies' $12,00 coats now $5.90 Ladles '$8,00 coats now $3.90 55.00 dress skirts now $1.90 Girls" $5,00 long coats for $1.90 And so all over the house. All you have to do is to ask for tbe adver tised goods. They must go. ALTERATION This is a bona fide sale. No non sense or song-anddance. AH you have to do is to come to our store, pick out whatever goods you may want, and we will give you prices on them that you have never heard of before in Salem. How is this for a BARGAIN: Men's 65c wool fleeced under wear now only 35c Women's and misses' shoes, about half price, 50c corset covers now only 23c -' SALE Prices Slaughtered ALTERATION ..... jA1vL .i... Prices Slaughtered (United ProaB Loasod WJro.) Home, Doc. 30. Following 1b U nummary mndo tonight ot tho main ovonta of tho dny In tho oarthqualco doiitrnictiou. Tho estimates of tho number of dead aro p.laccd as high aB 200,000. Somo of tho ultra conserv atives ay that tho total will not oo moro than 35,000. Accurato esti mates uro Impossible but It la bo- llovod that botwoen 100,000 anil 120,000 aro dead. At least 20 cities In Southern Italy and Sicily aro in unmos. Anothor oarthqualco shock waB folt today at Palormo, but did not do much damago. General Foccla do Cassato haB been burning tho bodies In tho stroeta -of MosBlna to nrovont plague. TIjIb hai to bo dono undor guard of Boldlors to provent citizens from Interfering. All wagon roads and railroads Into tho stricken city hnvo boon destroyed and tho only direct means of commu nication la ,b' water or on. foot. Tho volcano on tho Islund of Strom boll, north of Sicily, bocnino nctlvo during tho day, and aont up groat olumott of Hinoko. Tho ml'ory of itho wretched rofu gees In uovoral of tho most sorlotinly affected districts wus Increased by chilling halt storniB that bent down n tho wounded lying unprotected on tho ground. Tho duvaatated region In Calnbrla and Sicily .Is bollovod to cover (5000 Bquaro tnllos. It extends from tho neighborhood of Montoleono through out tho southorn half, of Calabria and in Sicily from Messina to a point woll boyond Catallssctta far Into tJo Interior of tho Island. General do do Cncsato, In charge of tho troops at Mo'slna, and temporarily a practical dictator, requested moro soldlors, ana oxprossod ho advisability of ashing othor countries to oond troops. Tho Messina sRimtlon is almost boyond control. Tho survivors aro almost f liisnno, and tho doud nro ovorywhero. (Only tho moat rigid action and tho most fearlodu stops will savo tho city from pcstllouce, which' throatens to v'slt it as tho final chapter of 19 torrlblo mlofortuiios. flclals Bay tholr royal Mghnosacs will bo uuablo to holp, and that tholr iprosonco will only servo to tlo tho hands of other ofuc-xs bottor fitted to dcul with tho situation. "It la feared that somo Insane par son will attempt to assasslnato thn king or quoon." TIUd mcougo Is taken as absolutoly authontlc, having como dlroct from Messina to tho .wlroless station horo. Tialu loads of rcfugoos, noarly all of whom nro fo;vr fully wounded, uro arriving horo 'today. Many died on tho way. Tho trains aro loaded at a point tvolvo miles from Messina, which la tho nearest approach to tho city by rail. All tho rafugccB aro slniplfled am) aro unablo to glvo any cohorent ao counta of iho-dlsastor. ' Most of them chatter llko small children, r i It was loarned today that Dovoral bluejackets woro killed In a clash with outlaws booh after tho earth quako at Mossina. Tho outlaws nrndo a desporato Btand' but practically all of thorn woro klllod, It Is Bald. direction. Pnoumonla and monlngltls lias broken out in tho rofugoo campa. Tho foodl supply 1b (utterly lawffl clont, and the danger of hundreds Btarvlug to death 1b sorloua. Palmoro, Sicily, Dec. 30. Tho of ficials of tho Dank of Sicily at Mev islna, today eont tho following wire less message to Palmoro. "Gonoral PcccI do Cnsato is tak ing tho atrongest poslblo measures to provont tho catactropho from bo coming worso through disorder and for tho present will maintain a prac tical dictatorship. "Tho chlof danger now is from plague, as thousands of bodies, llo un- burlod in tho streets and havo re Icolved no attention since death j "General Cusnto advocate tho cremation of all bodies immediately but tho peoplo alrondy boaldo them-iselvo-. wllll not permit this. They j cling to the d ad In w'ld Insanity and leay hey will not allow tho bodlos to 'he l'lt-ncd. I "Tho troublo Is grently oxaggor atPd owing to tho yttor loia of nerve by the Inhabitants-through thn stu por that seonm to affect every one I "The authorities regret tho nroi- Qu(cn lUxcues Child. Catania, Sicily, Dec. 30. Queim Holeno, at tho risk of her life, ron cued a wounded child from a wrecked building In Messina, according to an authontlc rojwrt received horo through ofllclul chnnnols this after noon. Tho king and quoon w.ro paBjlng noar tho building, whou tho pitiful walls of tho wounded child woro hoard by tho quoon, and she rushed Into tho ruins and dragged tho little victim to sufoty. King Emmanuol protested ngalnst her ontorlnc tho building, but sho had dono so beforo ho realized It. Tho otructuro had boon badly shattered, and waa In constant dangor of col lating. Tho quoHj carried tho child -to a rollof boat which was waltng noarby. After her first collapso Helena gained strongth rapidly and heroic ally aided in tho rescuo work. aftaci V'lu-s Itaglug in ltulns. Itomo, Doc. 30. Fires aro raging m many of the ruined cltloj In tho oarth qunko districts, according to roports rocolvod horo today by tho minister of marine. It Is bollovod tho fires at Messina havo dono their worst, and now have boon controlled by tho soldiers. Itlgld enforcement of tho law at Messina today failed to bring about much aom bianco of ordor. Looters aro nt work. Tho soldiers shoot down any ma a they see In tho act of stoallng from tho dond or looting wrocked build ings, but In many instances tho flondn sacrn to be unawaro of tho danger of death from tho rlflos, or aro unmind ful of It. Tho deputies nro gathering in Itomo today for a special soslon of parliament, at whloh relief measuro? will bo adopted spoodlly. Tho mlnlstor of marjnq . rqcelved niossagos from tho warships at Mes sina, faying that tho rosouori aro so' badly swamped with work fhat It will requlro many days to' Sstabll'sn any nuequato relief system Tho mf- Maiiy Driven Iiumuio. Palmoro, Sicily, Dec. 30. Quoon Holona swooned as sho and King Vic tor lOmmanuol approached tho ruluod city of MosBlna today. Medical aa slstnnco was ciummonod, and it waa somo tlmo boforo tho bravo quoon to. gained hor senses. Tho king and quoon wopt blttorly aa thoy saw tho doBtructlon spread out boforo thorn. Scoro of ttlmoat Inmnp survivors gathered about ho royal couplo and throw thomftolvos in tho mud scream quooii iioionn. .wrror-BincKon,oom by "tho horrifying sight o'f tlio do stroyod' city and ho wild -lictloBe of tho peoplo, clung to tlio rm of tho king. Many trtod to klsa tho hundB of tho king and quoon and prayed to thm aa if thoy woro saints. Tho horrible Bufforing in tho city In gradually driving thoso who wir vlvod Into insaulty. Days and nlghtd without food, In tho presouco of death and destruction ovoryw.horc, with no possibility of cloop and rent, havo loft tho living a) holpless as tho dead. Tho king, will take chargo of tho rescuo work aa soon as he ablo to form an organization. Trains of sup ples and volunteers nro arriving, and It is hoped '(hat somo uort of ordor may bo brought out of tho chaos to morrow. Tho queen Is conttantly noar col lapse, but refusqs to loavo hor hus band for a momont, Insisting that whorover his duty takes him, sho also will go. W'th 50,000 doad, tho city In ruins and on flro, it is ulino&t Impossible to mnko a successful start. Tho llroo havo boon controlled to a groat oxtont by tho soldiers. It la thought that many may still be allvtv In tho imlna of tho shnttored dwel lings. Practically 100,000 men, women and children, who oscaped doatli, aro encamped on tho hllhldcs outside of tho city. once of tho king and queen, Tho of- ugoea are, scattered for inJlea in ovroy Many Moved by Sen, Rome, Dee. 30. All low Year colobrntlonn throughout' Italy havo boon nbandonod. All thoatora and public places of amusement hava been closed. Tho railroads and tho tolograph. Hues hnvo been placed under tho supervision of tho government. Tho minister of murl.no received reports tonight that ninny of tho wounded and half crazed survivors havo boon removed by ships from Mossinn to othor coust towns. Frlonds and relatives of persons in tlio affected districts nro being glvon free transportation by tho gov ernment but nro being warned not to go luiloaa pr,pnrod to nd In tho rescuo work. Tidal Wnvo Destroys IteKgio, Cantanznro, Italy, Doc. 30. Tho (Contlnuod ou Page &j vJBj "JHI nw x'r' it ?M J