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XVIII. iEATH LIST GROWS HOURU FIRE WEEPING THE RUINS (any Caught in Wrecked Buildings Burned to DeathTidaI Wave Sweeps Over Messina, Burying Hundreds Under Debris and MudEstimated Seventy Thousand Have Perished, and the List Grows As Communi cation Is Established With the Outside WorldAid Being Sent From San Francisco and Other Cities (United PrcBR Leased Wlro.) noun-. I)iv. 21). All olllclttl 1N- Mtdi rccdVHl HiIh fVoilliiB by the minister of iiuiHne estlmatOH the numlKV ot U'I nt MtosIiiu nlono to lw 0O,(MM). Tills makes ho extent of Uw inliuiilly even Knitter tlinii guy irinlfn ivportM lndlciited. Home, Die 20. Tologrnphlo com munication luu, loon roatorou ionium as far south m I'ulnil, uud ouuh now aretch of wire Hint Is put In operu tlon brlnsa the story of now horror3, resulting from the great onrtiiqtmuo, which, at tho moHt coiiBorvatlvo oatl- mates, caused Mio death of 2D, 000 poroons nnd the Injury or a numuor that cannot bo ostlmatcd. Tho Trl ban tonight ctlnintoa tho dead at 70.000. Messina, tho boautliul Hlclllun city Foa tbe Straits of Mcralna, luia boon i blotted oil', Catnstropho In throQ ; forms visited the city In swift buccob- ron, Flr't enmo tho torrlflc quake, jthaklng down hulldluB,' orushlut; ! hundreds Irr tho ruins nnd IrIghton ' log tbe survivors out of tholr wits. - Then tho son ro,,o In a tromendoiit ; tidal wave und awoiit lu upon- tho 5 town, inundntlni; It. i-nd loavlni; a deposit of over tv feet of mud and jjllme. As toon as tho wator bu I sided, fires liroko out and Bproad rap idly until Pie llr.mos Bwopt over tho rums In a solid iiinBs. History will sever tell the number of dead nor tho s'ory of tuo horrlulo aBonlos Suffered bv nion, women nnd littl'j i ftlldren, who were caught in tho du brl, Uit win not fortunato enough ! to be killed outright. Hofugeoa say ; 11.000 miiFt, Lae dod, and ovon thoy I ke their oUlmatos upon guossos. I If roport revolved through ofllcln i channel tonl'ht nr. not oxnggoratod i out of an ptoiortlon, tho ibatruotlon ol Messina wl 1 take its plaoo hoslde Pompcl' en l Herculanoum and St. . Pierre Between four nnd flvo thousand wounded have been accounted for by ihe rescuers nnd thoy roport that they believe there will ho thirty thousand renulrlncr nllnmlnn The last Cfnmia tfll.-nn nf XTnoolnnH aea a population of ovor 90,000 wt It is believed that nt tho time w e earthquake, nt least 100,000 uo ineir nonus thoro. The first nu'ssngo from Pnlml ugnt to HoniB nnwn nt tl- .!- ructlon of ihat city. Ovor eight r". ut mp ten thousand Inhahl "i8 are d,.tld I'rnctlanjly tho on- Pbpuljtion Is lmmoloss and In we createRi .ncw.o r. . that it Ik ,,.. ""V, ."J".. ""ib Bi,A tho ;. , "",M'B i" eio ior an ka HiU3.!.,a l"'"",lI' nnd that many Km I d ,h.""l8h "08loct whon thoy any death from th : ,' "1. we to ; . r,",u.. umv,v "'."" famiiin. . ". ,,ru wunuB. wnoio SI Tt k ,led ,n th0,r homos- arii l w,th cllluren In their lot to? I ? a. slnB, 8rvovor han CDrleu0"1.0 verB0 ot lsanlty. i tal?.!nUih0 8ola,ors ro work 4 ISoL 7,he ,,r,e8t8 havo 80 ork of e heart and J'n n the CeL?RTe , Through their Plred 2 '"lrhred8 havo been in JwrtoaiWi?8 ,U" th0 work' whore Vr X im?ir,ad glv6a themselves No , ?m .ntat,ous and Prayer. agtaTrV? be obtft,ned " tho Pt Is a MHVannl' which was ttWcatlon ,d.aI wavo and a11 cora- Nlar to th.hM. 8uffered a fato ? let nf Me88,na thouel1 ' The mlno way of determin W throMf report8 that have UattL .uKh to Palml indlcato m that Z iWM .whoUy wrecked 1 the loss of life could not ho Cfltltnntud, Somu aro Inclined to discredit tlioHO reports on account of tho wild Btuto of mind of everyone lu tho southern part of Italy, whore many havo faced horror upon horror on all hIiIoh, and havo had practically no food and no slsep at all. Ilagnura was razed by flro fol lowing tho quako and tho town Is said to havo boon practically wiped out. Tho death list thero undoubt edly will bo heavy. A dispatch to tho government olllcora hero say that out of 7500 at Hugunra three hun dred are dead nnd live hundred are severly Injured. Late dispatches from Cantnnzaro tend to lncreiiBo tho llrst reports of tho damago and Buffering thero. Tho whole population of the towns is en camped outsldo the city. Tho men for tho moBt part aro too dazed to work. The women tire kopt In a state of continually nervoun frght by movemonts of the earth which have followed tho big quako, bo that prac tically nothing hits heon dono sinco the destruction of tho town. Tho soldloru who havo chargo of tho town uudor martial law havo forcod tho mon to work, but they havo gone about the labor in a dazed fashion. The food supply Is luaujclont nnd army otnctals ruport that unless sup plies uro received almost immediate ly there will be many doaths from starvation, Tho wounded uro being enred for by monks nnd nuns. a refugee camp outhtde Cuiiiunztuo was tuacKed UiU morning by a band of half hiuniio crimiuiiB who escaped from tho prison whon tno wuIIb wore shattered by tho quake. The llonds roll upon tho women and the children and stole from them tlo lit tle trinkets tuat they wore. 1'hoy showed no morcy for tho wounded and felled with clubs any who gavo resistance. A small boy ran to a temporary g,urikou .)ioiu a squuu oi soldlors had been placed and gave tho alarm, Tho soldlors returned with the boy.surprisod tho. llonds at tlioir work and snot them uotwi. Ton woro killed and not more than two escaped. No word has been re ceived from the Italian torpedo floot which was on iMObsma at me nine of tho quaku and it is toarod thai tho ships may havo beou swnmiied and lust with nil on board In tho tidal wavo. Tho naval minister has sent out scoins in vuin. u is ut lievod thut tho torpedo fleot un doubtedly would havo been houid from uy this time if it hud sur vived tho wave. Tho British ship Exmoulh, with tho cruisers Euryo lus, Minerva and taulej havo been or dered to piooeod to .vlossina from tho station ut Malta. ilio tremor was folt throttghoui the length ot Itaiy and ovo.i rou:nu ovor tho Aips. Sever' 1 hundred foreigners, i'i eluding mauy voinon, ware In .Me slna at tho tinio of tho disaster. No word Iiwj boon received from them, and It is feared that mi navu p-nj.u-. Scu Coveivd with Wi-eckage. Rome, Italy, Dec. 29. The cap tain of the Itclian warship Washing ton, which arrived at Palermo, Sicily, today said that ho believes ho wa. entering ho Straits of Mesalna Just a tho first shock occurred. "The ship quivered as If she had lost ono of tho Bcrew propellers and immediately wo wore onveloped In a log," ho 3nld. "We continued to ward Messina, but soon camo upon floatingfi wrecks of ships, housei and furrlturo, that h?J beon washed out to sea fron ho c!ty. "Thoro was ro much debrb In the water, and so many wrecks, that it wnn ibinpfirnnn navlcation. and WO escaped, collision with tho greatsat dlroculty. Soon many small ooata came about manned with BitrvfvorH j uoggiug ror nui. wo wont in towniii the city and stopped for a short time. It seomed that tho city had been ut terly riped away. Near Gacslclre the mnpor of the town enme out and met us in a small boat. Ho said that 1000 had been killed and 500 In Tribune Says 70,000. Home, Doc. 29. A Into edition of he Tribune horo today eBtlmntcs tho number of er.rthqur.ke and tidal wavo victims at hotween 05,000 nnd 75, 000. The Tribune rcys that twlco that many wtro injured, nnd are Biifforfn'ij dospcrntoly from hunger nnd oxpo.. uro. Relief commissions uro rushing food, ruppllos and medical stores to he stricken sections. King ICmmnn ucl Is on hU wr.y south, mil will as sume direction of tho rollof w -k Tho foarful loss of llfo nnd hor rible suffering of tho victims is ap palling. Roportn contliiMO to in- croaro tho horror of tho dlaastor. Hundreds of thousand aro homo loss, und moct of thorn aro without food, All the colsmtc apparatus in Italy Is hrokon by tho shock In nearly all cities ordors lmvo been given to Bhoot down IootoiK nnd those orders havo boon carried out In mnny canon. The hcavlCBt damago was dono at MonBlnn, d Sicily, and Rogglo, In Cal abria, nerooo tho strnlto from Mosslnu Few reports hpvo coino from Rougio, but theV Indlcato that tho olty was ehnkon torrllicfnlly, and that tho lois of llfo was heavy. It Is tho capital or the provlnco of Rogglo Di Cala bria, and Is a olty of about 50,000 In habitant. Towns Aro Annihilated. Rome, Dec. 29. Tho complot., de struction of Messina, the large son port town of Sicily, with a popula tion of 150,000, Ib confirmed In an official dlspptch to the Italian govern mont todny. Tho dispatch Qxpro-TiGH h- fear that Rcgglo, across tho Straits of Moseinn, has beon com pletely nnnihilntod, and that most of tho towns on tho straits havo boon destroyed. , Railway communication Into tho ttrIckoii towns ha boon established. (Tho transportation is confined to tho ! bringing in of supplies and govern- j I mont troopa, and to tho taking out of refugees. MewgC3 J'.iBt received any that flro has broken out in Mosina. and that tho flamos aro spioading rapidly ovor tho ruined "city. Tho wrecked and. shattered build ings are food for tho flro, nnd, as the water supply has been cut off, thoro Is no means of checking tho conflagration. ISvon If mouna woro provided thoro Is no organization of nny kind to carry on tho work. The dbpatches indlcato that tho city Is doomed. A squadron of bat tleships loft horo today for Messina, where tho ohlpa will bo divided' and mtrol tho const lu tho devastated, districts. Motalna Ib tho second city In Sici ly, ranking next to Palormo. It is r.n nncient city, or,ld to havo beon o,i tabllshod by plratos from Cumao, lu thr- olghth contury, B, C, Tho convent of San CJrogorlo, con taining tho imiBOum of Incatlmablo vnluo. Is irnld to havo beon eo liadly 'amngod that It Is In danger of col lapsing. Tho city la at tho northeast corner or tho I'lanJ, on tho Stralta or Medi na, and lu in tho lino or contact on which oarthqunkoB botwoon Aetna" and VobuvIub aro most violent. Tidal Wnv Killed Many. Naples, Italy. Dee. 29. Twenty flvo thouennd deaths Is tho host oitl mato mndo tolay or tho lona in tho groat earthqtnko and tidal wavo w'llch dovaetatod Sou thorn Italy nnd Sicily yostorday. King Victor Bin- munuol passed through tho city today on routo to Rome, from which city ho will proceed to tho affected districts, The king rocolved reports frjin Messina saying that tho tidal wavo thoro loft v two-foot layer of mud and sl'mo ovor tho city, nnd that Hcorog woro sinothorod, A aorlotiB clash botwoon tho sl dlor and lootora nt M"SBlnn tod ty rMulted In a numbor of deaths. Tho so'dlors Ilrod on tho lootora, and d'ovq thorn Into tho mountnl.1?. Gonornl Coota, who, lu addition to ins military ponltlon, la an arch bishop, commander or tho garrMn at Moinlnn, is among tho dead. Twelve Thousand In McnhIiui. Palormo, Sicily, Dec. 29. Twolvo Miourand nro dond at Mosstua, accord ing to tho latoot reports rocolvod luro today If 3 roared that hundredo nro nllvo undo" tho ruins, r.nd that thoy will 1 e re td allvo by tho flamoa, which are Rwennlng th? city. Tho horror of tho situation thoro (Continued on pago 0.) CLOSING SESSIONS OF CITY COUNCIL FOR 1 908 Budget for 1909 Is Large -Grand Total of $71,277. Coming Year. $12,899 for Street Funds Reserves Provided For the All aldermen were present hut Presnnll and Waldo. Mr. Stolz was callod to tho chair. City Attorney Koyes submitted a report on franchise ordinance' with amendments. Mr. Eldridge offored an amend ment that a 12-minuto service bo maintained on Yew Park line. Car ried. Other minor amendments were offered nnd adopted. On motion to strike out tho "inoro reporter's" amendment to havo a car in waiting from 5 a. m. to 12 p. m. at tho S. P. dopot, Mr. Moores callod for tho ayes and noes. Mr. Stockton made an effectivo speech, naylng thoro was a disposi tion to Jump onto any concern that was getting abend. Thero was an olement In this city that tried to strike down any man who was suc cessful, or any corporation that was conducted on progressive policies. This city was making a mistake to make war on public sorvlco corpora tionsj that were liborally conductod. (Continued on page 7.) BALF0URS DEHORNED SOCIALISM TO JOIN LABOR AND CAPITAL (United Press Leased Wlro.) London, Doc. 29. Former Pro mlor Arthur J. Unlfour bus started 11 vigorous campaign throughout Orua. Brltnln for "capital and labor" com binations' In many indiiEtiloa, taking as his toxt Sir Christopher Furuoss' ntoimor co-oporntivu shipbuilding sum. Unlfour Is conducting his movement nu projldont of tho labor co-opiratlvo au.oolutlon, an organl- ., .. ...... . 1.. ... 1.. zuuur 01 suvurui yuuru nuiuuiuH in to which, however, new llfo has boon injected oy tno uig stiipouiitiing ox porlmcuto. Tho audlonccs which th former promlor has boon addressing In tho leading English cltieii nro tho most curiously mixed of any gathered in tho United Kingdom. Peers and worklngmon, Socialists, Liberals and Conservatives, captains of Industry and unionists all scorn equally onthu Elastic ovor tho plan, which, It is hoped, will revolutionize tho rota tions botwoon capital and labor, and put an end to industrial strifo by placing the two intercstn on an equal footing, und making thorn work to ward n common ond. Tho ox-promlor tunkca it clear, llOWOVOr. tlint 11 In not . Roolnlljin which ho b advocating. Ho urgoj Individual, rather than committal), control or both eommorclnl nnd ln duatiial ontorprlcos, declaring his bollof that th higher tho dogroo or individual oiiiclency nmong mombnrs or any form of managing board tho less llkoly would thoy bo to work harmoniously ttveothor. "Or.ir usooelatlon Ideal, howovor," llO OXIllf.lllO1 .111 liln Innl cinuiAli "In comploto co-paiitnorshlp. I mean'that moso wio curry on tno work should bo nBsoclatod in all that tho work brlnus In. ."Kvorythlnc that uoftens or oblit erates tho dlv'sion botwern employ er and omployod is a uten In tho right direction. Tlio moro wo oncourago mutual knowlodeo or orch others pf ralrs, tho moro v;o can bring tho two clnsBOO'togothor, tho moro wo can get 1 no wornman to understand the tllfll oultles or iho omployor, tho moro wo aro llkoly to produoo a clasi of work mon fit to donl with nil questions, In dustrial, political or social. This m suit wo shall got by co-operation, an I I doubt If vo shnll not It In nnv oil.. or way. "I tllluk that tho nlnnu wn nlvvntn can bo mist cffoctivoly carried out "n w.u mm, iiinuuico, rt an ovonts, In thooo woll ost'bllshod IndiiBtrJei Which lmVO llttlo nhnnt ilintn t rfi. ayoculfttlvo olomont." The Unwritten jMW (Kan, niritod Press Lnnsod Wlro.) Donvor, Colo., Doc. 29. nurdnttn Kdwnrd Roll, in tho city prison todny or snooting and killing Courlei Doaury, an actor, yentordav nfinrnnnn In tho Loono Hotol, .today declared mat tho "unwritten law" prompted him In killing Doaury. Roll declared that Deatirv iIoro. crated h' hom- nnd that ho attempt ed tO entlCO Mrs. Tlnll tn n..nmnnn.. him on tho road. Mr. Bell, who la being dotnlned by the nollco no n. wltnou 1.,. i. coco, today calmly discussed tho ouwiuig una us caMso, She- said: r ,M? hU8b"nd was good to m. and I liked him. Dcaury aUxi was good to mo, nnd I Mkcd Mm, too." Bell i'i, 27 vonrn t nn.A nn.i n i dry marker. Tho Bells havo an 18-months.-old girl. ,, ;u7,as 20 yeara of age. It ls Bald that Mm nii mn 1.1 n.....A an advortlsoment ho insevtod i,n a pany hlrn atrocs to accom- DUNBAR BEATS STATE COURT HOLDS FEES WERE HIS Tho Btipromo court took action on tho Stato vb. F. I. Dunbar case to day, and hnndod down n docislon re versing and dismissing it. . This suit wns originally cotn Inonccd Uy J. K. Scnrs, a taxpoyor, en behalf or tho stole, alleging that Dun bar, nB cocrotary or stato, rocolvod a sum or monoy as roes ror filing varl- . ous pnpers, and ror other nccossttlOH lu connection with his office, which ho convortod to his own personal tiao After being appealed from Circuit Judgo OnPowny's court, the Btipromo court hold.i that tho state has no right or tltlo t the foes and perqui sites exacted by 4 ho dorondant, 'under tho statu tea, nor is tho defendant ac countable to tho state thorofor in this suit. Tho court holds that the money-, provided by, tho logMslnturo for copy ing Hata of rbcolutiotn for tho print ers Ib not. as iorsonal compensation to tho secretary for personal services,. h,ut Is ror naylng1 tho oxponso for haying ouch records transcribed, lloheo the state- Is not entitled to ro covor this item stated, further in thU complaint. A docislon was also handed down In tho case or Stato vi. Fisher, which wa appealed from tho circuit court or Linn county, Gcorgo II. Burnott, Judge-. Tho case was rovorsod and a now trial ordorod. Tho dorondant in this caso was tried and convicted ot violating tho stato gamo laws, by hav Iirg In his poacoraion six door hams. Tho court holds that tho dorondant has a right to show In his explanation or his admitted poenosslon or tho doer during tho closo reason that tho door wore killed during tho opon sonson. MADE HAUL FROM COUNTY TREASURER. (United Press Leased Wlro. J Sioux Falls, S. D Doc. 20, Two masked mon .today robbod Michael Melr, treasurer or Sanborn county, of $5087, an descapod. The robbory was ono of tho boldest on record horo, Tho mon entored tho ofllco of tho tronsuror and polntbd thtlr rovolvon at him. Sovoral porsons woro nearby outBldo, but tho bandits mndo no nol 0. Thoy made Molr walk to tho vault, whore ho was forced to hand ovor all tho ensh on hand. Then tho robbers looked tho treas urer in tho vault and flod. Thoy WOrO noticed hnrrlndlv lnn.,l,, .1. . Qillce, and tho robbory was soon dis- nnvnrn.l n..i ir.i. .v.., u fljuu- roieasod, A iiuhso is in purnult of tho bandits. o . Wintlirop Gets New Job. Washington, Dee. 29. Bookman Wlllt'TOll. nf Vnr. Vl, i A assistant secret' ry of tho treasury. ,..... k,t iLiiuriiuoii mat no nos accoptcd it ho nsilHtnnt nf- !. of ctato, to Biicceed Robort Bacon, A uimuiBioou mat secretary Root Will rcrnnrn nnnn ! v i. ..,. suoceod by Bacon, who will hold thu ortfollo until the Tuft cablnot comoa In nnd Senator Knox awumes tho j waiiu4 otf CJemmlssloner at Aa Guayrn. Wflnlllllnrtnn T nrt m. ..-.M..blu, uw. ia.ino nrrlv nl nt Special Commissionor W. I SUhIM ! trei on boha,t of tho" ii-T ' ,1 u l" nr"va of Ad mlral Arnold at. La Guayra waa an nounced today in messages to tho navy and stato departments hero. o Striko Ts Ended. of8.hf :i' i9.T. Btrlko hero today, 30 per cent of tho min ers returning to work. n zm h