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VOli. 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.
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