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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1909
Page
4
Reports from Reggio indicate magazines are commandeered and guarded by troops to prevent looting as provisions are distributed by need. Two bakeries reopened under guard while cattle are requisitioned and bodies wash ashore obstruct rail lines.
The Umberto brought 400 refugees to Palermo with nearly all wounded. Its captain reports about 100 escaped prisoners looting, and survivors tearing apart dogs for food. Licinia landed 200 refugees from Messina as the stream from Reggio continues.
A band of about 2000 refugees from Messina and Reggio trek to Palms after fleeing the Sicilian ports. They cross the strait in sailboats and climb into the Calabrian hills where they witness their burning cities. A masked priest blesses the group and prays for peace for the dying and the dead.
A marching refugee group moves toward Palmi under rain, starting with two thousand but only five hundred arrive exhausted. Many perish along the route, succumbing to the grueling trek and dire conditions.
Miss Katherine P. Loring, secretary of the Massachusetts Red Cross, describes the Italian Red Cross relief network. She notes hospitals, hospital trains, field units, and bicycle litter bearers, plus government subsidies and malaria prevention efforts in Campagna, with 1907 figures for treated cases and dockyard and mine accidents, and a Mt Vesuvius aid contribution.
The article notes earthquake relief methods include vent fraud and rigid sanitary rules, plus purchases of tools and agricultural implements to foster self support. It states the Red Cross has participated in regular military maneuvers and contributed hospitals field hospitals doctors horses and bearers for relief use.
In Middleboro six ice houses owned by John D. Le Baron burned tonight, one large and five small, with no ice stored. Loss estimates reach $6000 with partial insurance, possibly caused by tramps. If not rebuilt, town faces an ice famine in 1999.
In the North End a candle glow lit windows as Sicilian Genoese and Neapolitan families offered prayers for thousands of disaster victims. Italian churches held masses and a relief dance was planned by prominent Italian girls to aid the sufferers.
Charlies T Bovell of the lodging house at 184 Northampton street denies that Daniel McDonald was wounded in a shooting affray near Lenox. The statement addresses McDonald’s involvement and location linked to the incident.
Seven dogs maul seven year old William Reski son of Mr and Mrs John Reski of Hillside parish near Johnstown New York. He died from injuries received in the attack.
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