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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1909
Page
2
Devastating quake, tidal waves, and fires leave Sicily and southern Italy in ruin. Reports place casualties in the tens of thousands, with cities like Messina, Reggio, and Catania heavily damaged. Troops rush relief as France Britain and Russia dispatch ships. King Victor Emmanuel III and Queen Helena head south to oversee aid.
The report details widespread ruin across Messina and Reggo Calabria with many dead, fires from gas explosions, and a 32 foot tidal wave altering the Straits. Destruction is said to be severe along the shores and across the district, cities, churches, and theaters reduced to ruins.
King Victor Emmanuel will travel to Calabria and Sicily to aid rescue work after the disaster. He ordered a special train to reach the affected area and, with Queen Helena, will proceed toward Reggio and Mezzina where the prefect is reported dead. an inspector general from Rome is sent to replace him.
Reports from Calabria and Sicily describe a catastrophe with 113,000 dead claimed by Messingstone, plus 200 wounded and thousands more possibly dead in other towns. Robbers and looters roamed ruined Messina as prisoners escaped from collapsed facilities and police offices were dead or destroyed. Fire raged through the city as chaos and fear spread.
Mount Etna in Catania Sicily remains active with prominent fumarolic activity and heavy smoke from the crater. Local observatory director links the activity to recent earthquakes that caused havoc in Calabria and Sicily, though a major eruption is not expected.
Dec. 30 Calabrian towns Palm and Bagnara suffered massive losses as a tidal wave devastated the area. Reports place deaths around 1,000 in Palm with many injured and further casualties at Bagnara. A villa at San Giovanni was flooded 2,500 feet inland.
Telegrams from Cassano and Cosenza report massive deaths and injuries after a disaster. Cassano, with 6,700 residents, records about 1,000 dead and 500 wounded. Cosenza, a commune of 71,000, reports around 500 dead as rescue teams remove the injured from rubble.
Refugees report about 100 foreigners in the Tringeria hotel when Messina quake obliterated it. The hotel was among the city’s best and popular with tourists. A wireless dispatch put Messina dead at about 50,000, a figure confirmed by the marine minister.
Rome reports a deadly quake centered in Sicily with shocks across multiple towns. At Catania tidal waves damaged docks and ships while Coltnissetta and Minko saw collapsed houses. Calabrian deaths and injuries total several dozen as troops aid rescue and demolition to prevent further harm.
A sequence of strong earthquakes rattled Virginia City and surrounding areas for over a week. Buildings cracked, plaster fell, and dishes scattered as the tremors continued, with the Weht plant reportedly shut down due to damage ten miles away.
Capetown reports Hottentots raid cattle posts near Bechuanaland border and murder two Europeans. Seven German soldiers pursuing the raiders were shot down by the Hottentots. Local residents are in great anxiety.
In a collision off Newcastle Nova Scotia the British steamer Advance sank after a crash with the Iverna. All hands were lost except the first officer who saved lives. The Iverna limped into New Glasgow leaking badly. Murder at Family Reunion in Kentucky.
Mexico Mo Dec 28 Fred Mikel who killed Deputy Marshal Elmer Magruder and seriously wounded City Marshal Frank Cain in a sensational escape from the Higbee jail Dec 18 was arrested here and confessed to the killing and holding up of the night airator at the Chicago and Alton office at Centralia Me ori day mornin
In Great Falls Montana a leadon collision between a freight train and a work train on the Great Northern railroad killed seven bridge carpenters and one other worker, with four more injured. The freight crew survived with injuries as engines, caboose, and piles of wreckage burned after the crash. The wreck stemmed from the freight failing to stop at Mid Canyon to let the work train pass, with blame not yet determined.
The federal grand jury opened hearings into the packing house industry with district attorney Sims in charge. The probe aims to last at least three weeks, with focus on rebates, railroad ties, and possible combinations within Mor tis & Co and other firms as witnesses testify.
The American Red Cross has telegraphic requests to its branches for relief funds for Southern Italy earthquake victims. With the Italian Red Cross fully organized, the American society will mainly send money contributions as promptly as possible.
New York December 29 article by John D Rockefeller discusses cooperative philanthropy and the General Education Board. He argues the board conducts careful studies of higher education needs and opportunities, citing annual disbursements around two million dollars and open records for scrutiny.
Fourteen members of the House committee on Interstate and Colonial commerce sail from Charleston to examine the Panama Canal project aboard the steamer Alp anca reaching Colon January 1. They will spend four or five days on the Isthmus and hope to return to Washington by January 14.
Columbus Dec 29 Many Ohio lawmakers have arrived as the battle to succeed Senator Foraker grows hotter. Leading candidates Burton of Cleveland and Foster Charles P Taft lack enough votes to seal the prize. Burton backers claim thirty five votes on the font ballot while Taft supporters refuse figures noting the outcome hinges on about sixteen undecided legislative votes.
In Chicago a petition for a receiver for the Mexican Plantation association charges J R Marklay E D Graves W Graves John B Welcome and Lee Mantell with diverting large sums to themselves Joseph Sand ers filed the case in circuit court alleging control by the named individuals and an attempt to discharge the trustee and transfer property to a new organization in which Sanders holds two original certificates. A large number of school teachers reportedly were among the original stockholders.
County Treasurer Michael Melr was robbed of 5078 dollars by two masked men in his office. They locked him in a vault but he escaped and raised the alarm before fleeing. he was unharmed.
Dr. Richard A. F. Penrose aged eighty two died at his Philadelphia home from pneumonia. Father of United States Senator Boles Penrose, he was born in Carlisle, Pa, and was a prominent figure in medical literature.
Beekman Winthrop of Massachusetts, formerly assistant Secretary of the Treasury, accepted the post of first assistant secretary of state under the incoming Taft administration. He will succeed Robert Bacon of New York, who is expected to temporarily take Kuhn Koot upon the starter's retirement in January. The tender was made with the approval of President Elect Taft.
In Flushing on December 22 Evans evidence centered on Thornton J Hains and his brother Captain P C Hains Jr in the killing of William E Annis. Charles Raymond Weaver testified he lured the Hains brothers to Bayside to seize property instead of heading to Sandy Hook. He spoke on Captain Hains mental condition and a prior Boston trip. Leo Boge said he spoke with Thornton about Bayside property and arranged a yacht club meeting shortly after. the defendant allegedly missed the appointment.
George Wy Fits gerahd a former assistant teller at the U S Treasury in Chicago sue s William Holdenweck in charge of the subtreasury and private detective Herbert F Young for 50000. The action stems from the Fitzgerald vault theft case where 173900 was stolen and Fitzgerald died. Bolden and others refused to testify amid orders.
Coroner opens trunk to locate relatives of John Ford Vaux aged 73 who died suddenly in a Broadway rooming house. Hidden cash and bank securities valued at more than 44 thousand dollars are found. The trunk contents suggest a complex backstory and possible heirs.
President Roosevelt via the state department sent a condolence message to Italy's leader over a shared tragedy. The note conveyed sympathy for the Italian people and referenced the somber mood in America.
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