Earthquake Death Toll Surges Across Stricken Zone
Rome reports place vast devastation in Avezzano and surrounding towns as 32 000 dead feared with thousands more wounded missing and shelters overwhelmed. King Victor Emmanuel and the Pope aid relief while soldiers search ruins and rescue efforts face cold, fires and disrupted water supplies.
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Rome
Signor Ciufelli
Avezzano
Sora
Magliano di Marsi
Cappelle
Zuccari
Rela
Salandra
Rlief
Public Works
Lia
Victor Emmanuel
William Marconi
Messina
Pescina
Magianomarsi
San Benedetto
Magnano di Marsi
Péseini
Giosmarsi
Liri
Apennine
United States
America
Victor Emanuel
Oue House
Italy
Avezzano Haave
Aiello
Cosenza
Aquilla
Cappadovia
Balsorano
Tagliacozzo
Buss
Cocculo
Sulmona
Ovid
San Domenico
Volcanic Disturbance Hits Central Italian Towns
Region-wide seismic event swells concern as towns near Rome report volcanic danger. Avezzano, Frosinone, Monte Rotondo, Valmontone, and Rome area communities resist disruption. chateaus and castles linked to noble families cited amid quake geography.
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Frosinone
Rome
Monte Rotondo
Tiber
Orsini
Piombino
Valmontone
Marconi Describes Havoc At Avezzano
Rome reports Gugliemo Marconi returning with King Victor Emmanuel described Avezzano as utterly destroyed with most residents ruined and no walls standing. He compared the disaster to Messina noting only a small fraction escaped and early rescuers found cries faded as time passed.
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Rome
Gugliemo Marconi
Avezzano
Victor Emanuel
Victor Emmanuel
Marconi
Italy
Messina
Fire Devastates Roebling Plants in Trenton Loss Near 2 Million
A major blaze in Trenton destroys Roebling wire and artillery chain facilities, gutting 27 nearby homes and damaging two mills. Officials estimate losses from 2 to 5 million, with suspicions of arson tied to a jail inmate connected to a bomb plot against the company.
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Trenton
N. J
John A. Roebling’s Sons Company
Delaware and Raritan Canal
Buckthorn
I. WW. D
John L. Mott
New Jersey State
Roeblings
Inalle Gavrele
First National Bank of Uniontown Closes After Coal Land Deals
Uniontown’s First National Bank failed to open with a door notice saying closed by directors. A meeting with Bank Examiner Gerald Smith and a Comptroller representative followed, while President J W Thompson said it would not reopen until sufficient money covered depositors.
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First National
Uniontown
First National Bank of Uniontown
Gerald Smith
Comptroller of the Currency
J.W. Thompson
Veiontown
Thompson
Seismic Theory Links Floods to Italian Quake
Paris report cites meteorologist thesis that prolonged rains created steam bodies by contacting hot matter, forming a quake cause. Observation notes San Giulano spring nearly doubles its flow, supporting the idea.
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Paris
Petit Parisien
Italy
San Giulano
Pope visits hospital to speak with quake victims
Pope Benedict expressed grave sorrow over the Italian earthquake disaster and visited Santa Maria Hospital in Rome. He spoke to forty one patients, asking about the disaster and inquiring after their families.
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Rome
Pope Benedict
Santa Maria Hospital
Six Die After Fire on Yacht Julia Off North Carolina Coast
Six people leaped from the burning yacht Julia into freezing Pamlico Sound off the North Carolina coast. J W Murray president of Piedmont Trust Co of Burlington N C, Mrs W S Porch manager Inside Inn Beaufort, and G P Dodson of Norfolk were among the dead with three crew members. Mrs Murray, the sole survivor, swam half a mile to shore as the vessel exploded near Englehard. The yacht, gas engine powered, suffered a blaze that spread from cabin to deck and stern before failing the group.
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J. W. Murray
Norfolk
Julia
Pamlico Sound
North Carolina
Piedmont Trust Company
Burlington
N. C
W. S. Porch
Beaufort
G. P. Dodson
Englehard
Interborough bids for 450 all steel subway cars
The Interborough Rapid Transit Company of New York has inquired with Pittsburgh steel-car firms about supplying 450 all steel passenger cars for about 125 persons per car. The order has not been definitively placed according to Pittsburgh offices.
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Interborough
Pittsburgh
Interborough Rapid Transit Company
New York
Steel
Russians press in Poland and Caucasus fronts in war report
London reports a renewed Russian push west of Warsaw with Grand Duke Nicholas leading up to 1,000,000 troops. They cross the Skrwa River near Plock and advance toward the Prussian border while Turks retreat toward Erzerum in disorder.
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London
Grand Duke
Nicholas
Warsaw
Skrwa
Plock
Slewpec
Gombin
Poland
Kara-Arran
Caucasus
Erzerum
Petrograd
Russia
Caucasian
Persia
Aras
Albert
la Boisselle
Paris
Vistula
Thorn
West Prussia
East Prussia
Mlawa
Vise
Soissons
St. Paul
Varig
Germans Create Fund to Compensate Swedish Ship Losses
German shipowners led by Herr Ballin of Hamburg American subscribe 100000 to compensate Swedish ship owners for losses from mines in the Gulf of Finland. Berlin admits mines may have been planted by German vessels.
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London
Gulf of Finland
Herr Ballin
French Suffer Heavy Losses at Soissons in Three Day Fight
German headquarters reports capture of about 5200 French prisoners and fourteen guns after three days around Soissons. Four to five thousand French soldiers killed found on the battlefield.
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Berlin
Sayville
Soissons
Emden Sea Fight Seen to Drive German Prince Insane
Vancouver reports a letter from Rev. T. Pitt claims Prince Franz Joseph of Hohenzollern was driven insane by his experiences aboard the Emden during the clash with the Australian cruiser Sydney. The prince allegedly fired a torpedo, killed crew in the torpedo room, escaped alone, then suffered a dazed condition and was restrained after capture at Port Said with other POWs.
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Vancouver
Prince Franz Josef of
Hohenzollern
Emden
Sydney
T. Pitt
Seamen’s Institute
Pitt
Franz
Port Said
JAPS VOLUNTEER TO FIGHT IN EUROPE
Promoters in Japan announce a volunteer movement to dispatch an army corps to Europe and appeal for funds from Japanese and foreigners. The manifesto compares Ra Lafayette aiding the United States and Garibaldi aiding France, saying Japan wishes to assist Britain Russia and France to end war and restore peace.
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Tokio
Japan
Volunteer Movement
Europe
Lafayuette
United States
Garibaldi
France
Great Britain
Russia
PITH OF THE WAR NEWS FROM FRONT LINES
In Champagne French fire downed two German aeroplanes with four prisoners taken. In Ar gonne both sides claim gains. Severe weather from Soissons to the frontier and in the Vosges halts operations. Russians say they hold the Transylvanian pass and will invade Hungary unless blocked. Caucasus reports Turkish defeats and captures. Turkish force moves toward the Russians’ flank from Tabriz. Ostend famine details reach via escaped town evader.
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London
Flanders
Arras
Perthes
Beausejour
Nieuport
Soissons
Troyon
Berlin
Warsaw
Dunajec
Cracow
Hungary
Carpathians
Eost Prussia
von Hindenburg
Kirlibaba
Romania
Vistula
Champagne
Argonne
Vosges
Transylvania
Austria-Hungary
Caucasus
Petrograd
Tabriz
Ostend
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Barberini
Prince Torlonia
Largo Fucino
Castellammare Adriatico
Roebling
Uniontown, PA
Pope
LA Boisselles
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