Death Toll Soars as Southern Italy Earthquake Ravages Sicily
Naples reports a staggering disaster in Messina and Reggio with about 110000 perished and the death toll likely exceeding 200000. Devastated towns include Bagnara and numerous Calabrian villages as fugitives stream into ports, while relief efforts struggle amid widespread ruin and disrupted communications.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Italy
Sicily
Messina
Reggio
Naples
Francico Nava di Bontife
Catania
Cheney
Makharoff
Arthur
Calabria
Messina Strait
Vesuvius
Strait of Messina
Etna
Cape Vaticano
Bay of
King and Queen Rescue Efforts in Messina
King Victor Emmanuel and Queen Helena arrived at Messina and joined rescue squads amid ruins. The queen saved a three year old boy as crowds pressed, while the king helped extricate victims. Survivors request food and shelter as banks report Italy’s treasury saved aboard a warship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Catania
Italy
Victor Emmanuel
Helena
Messina
Vittoria-Emmanuel
Bank of Italy
Felice
Eighty-ninth Regiment
Morgan Gives 10000 For Refugee Relief Funds
J Pierpont Morgan contributed 10000 dollars for refugee relief. Ambassador Griscom notified the government and the Duke of Aosta, head of the National Relief committee, of the donation. The report came from Rome with New York following up the announcement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Rome
J. Pierpont Morgan
Griscom
Duke of Aosta
National Relief Committee
Relief Work Begins in America for Italian Earthquake Victims
The Red Cross reports relief action with Illyria steamship due from Hamburg to Sicily on January 5 to import donated funds and gifts. Italian Red Cross delegates announce contributions from Bonci Brown Brothers & Co and G and W Seligman Co totaling 35 900, with 10 900 already cabled. The National society plans a 50 000 remittance, and Christian Herald has advanced 20 000 for Italian relief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Steamship Company
Hamburg
Illyria
Sicily
Germany
Lidello Perera
Italian Red Cross Society
Bonci
Brown Brothers & Co
G. and W. Seligman & Co
National Society
Remarkable Escape in Messina After Earthquake Turmoil
Naples dispatch describes harrowing scenes from Messina and Reggio after the earthquake. A soldier Emilio de Castro survived a fifth floor collapse in a military hospital. A ferryboat tragedy near Reggio claims dozens, amid tidal wave damage and widespread starvation in fallen cities.
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Messina
Naples
Italy
Serapin
Emilio de Castro
Puleo
Reggio
Naples Sees Prophecy Of Destruction By Nature
Naples reports the Italian writer Matil de Serao in Excerpt from Les Annales predicting Naples destruction by nature. The piece recalls her forecast that the city will be destroyed by a mountain eruption and violent tempest affecting villages along the coast.
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Naples
Matilde Serao
Les Annales
Italy
Heavyweights to Mix In Lexington Tonight Hart vs Schreck
In Lexington Kentucky tonight Marvin Hart of Louisville and Mike Schreck of Cincinnati meet in a twenty round heavyweight bout at the opera house. Both fighters are noted more for resilience than marquee wins, and the bout is billed as an even pairing between two middling stars.
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Hart
Schreck
Lexington
Marvin Hart
Louisville
Mike Schreck
Cincinnati
Tommy Burns
Race Riot Under Ground In Hudson Tunnel Fight
Swedes and Italians clashed sixty feet underground in the Hudson Tunnel at Fulton and Greenwich streets. Police separated the combatants and arrested three ringleaders after a mass brawl sparked when a Swede knocked an Italian into a sandpit. About twenty men took part.
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New York
Hudson Tunnel
Fulton and
Greenwich Streets
Relgious Workers To See New Year In Chicago Watch Night
In the Coliseum Chicago 12000 Christian workers gather for a watch night service to mark the new year. The event closes a three day Moody Bible Institute revival with evangelists from across America including Dr L W Munhall Dr W B Biederwolf William Phillips Hall Mrs J Ellenester and Dr A B Simpson.
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Chicago
America
Moody Bible Institute
L. W. Munhall
Germantown
William B. Biederwolf
Monticello
Ind
Kansas
William Phillips Hall
New York
American Tract Society
American Bible League
Ostrich Attack Injures Long Beach Girl
Miss Bertha Proctor secretary of the Long Beach ostrich farm was pecked by an ostrich that tried to grab a nail from her fingers. The bird snapped her nose and held on two or three minutes leaving marks that will show for some time.
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Long Beach
Cal
Bertha Proctor
Noted horsewoman killed by accident in Lexington home
Miss Margaret Redd, noted horsewoman and daughter of Captain Richard Redd, was instantly killed in Lexington Kentucky when an old army pistol fell from the wall and discharged striking her below the heart as she dusted her brother's room.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret Redd
Lexington
Richard Redd
Joe Shelby
Stromboli Volcano Active Foreshadowing New Shock
Naples reports Stromboli shows signs of renewed activity with the volcano erupting and surrounding seas highly agitated raising fears of another earthquake.
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Stromboli
Naples
Farwell Named as Interior Secretary Candidate
Augusta Ga December 31 reports John V Farwell of Chicago a Yale man and prominent businessman as the latest name proposed for a Taft administration cabinet post possibly the secretary of the interior.
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Taft
Interior
Augusta
John V. Farwell
Chicago
Yale
Farwell
Mrs. Longworth Narrowly Escapes Horse Incident
In Washington on December 1 Mrs Nicholas Longworth was almost trampled between an ambulance and a carriage outside the New National theater. Policeman Catts pulled her to the sidewalk as the horses bounded forward, with Representative Longworth watching from the lobby.
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Washington
Nicholas Longworth
New National Theater
Catts
Longworth
Count Boni Loses Custody Suit in Paris Case
The court denied Count Boni de Castellane’s petition to grant custody of his three sons to his mother. The children stay with their mother Princess de Sagan and must not leave the continent without permission. Beginning Oct. 19, 1909, they will attend a college within 100 miles of Paris. Also reported: Treasury moved 225.5 million in gold from San Francisco to the Denver mint without loss.
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Princess de Sagan
Paris
Count Boni de Castellane
Marquise de Castellana
Anna Gould
New York
Washington
Treasury Department
San Francisco
Denver
Navajos Arrested for Killing Four
Salt Lake City report says three young Navajo Indians are in custody for complicity in the killing of four tribe members and seriously wounding an Indian woman on December 31.
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Salt Lake City
Markets Show Mixed Hog and Cattle Movements in Year End Trading
Chicago market notes receipts estimated at 30 000 hogs and 15 000 cattle with strong to higher bids. Hog classes range from light 5 05 to 6 80 and heavy packing 5 45 to 6 05 while cattle inclines shift toward higher figures across grades, with sheep also lifting into the 2 75 to 7 85 area. Official receipts and shipments given from Dec 31 1908 with Friday estimates for Saturday trading.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
John A. Babcock Seeks Fair Deal in Message
A short note from John A. Babcock pledges to pursue a fair arrangement. The text hints at a request for an equitable deal and timely communication.
Band of five robbers dynamites vault in Wellston bank heist
In Muskogee Oklahoma on December 31 five robbers built a barbed wire barricade around a Wellston bank. Four exchanged shots with officers and citizens while the fifth dynamited the vault and escaped with 5000 dollars. They fled on horses under steady rifle fire. no injuries reported as posses pursue.
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Muskogee
Okla
Wellston
Jilted Suitor Shoots Bride Then Kills Self
Kansas City report says Ray Reese wounded Mrs Clyde Setzer nineteen, a bride a week, then killed himself. Reese had been engaged to Edna Mecum but quarrelled. on Christmas Eve she married Clyde Setzer. The girl not expected to live.
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Kansas City
Ray Reese
Clyde Setzer
Reese
Edna Mecum
Setzer
Suffrage Group Forms Incorporation In New York
The Equal Franchise Society filed a certificate of incorporation to win national state and local electoral franchise for women. Directors include Rev. Charles F. Abed William M. Ivins Charles Sprague Smith John B. Stanchfield Harriet Stanton Blatch Margaret Aldrich and Elsie Goelet all of New York.
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Dr. Aked
Incorporated Equal Franchise Society
Albany
Equal Franchise Society
Charles F. Abed
William M. Ivins
Charles Sprague Smith
John B. Stanchfield
Harriet Stanton Blatch
Margaret Aldrich
Elsie Goelet
New York
Farmers oppose tuberculin test cattle condemnation
In Waukesha Wisconsin farmers voice discontent over recent condemnation of cattle after tuberculin testing. Some slaughtered Milwaukees cattle were only mildly infected, with one witness saying some cows showed hardly any signs of infection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waukesha
Wis
Milwaukee
Prominent Odd Fellow Killed in Switch Engine Crash
Madison South Dakota December 31 Peter Marquardt past grand master of South Dakota Odd Fellows was instantly killed when struck by a switch engine his body badly mangled and he died at the scene.
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Madison
S. D
Peter Marquardt
South Dakota
Odd Fellows
Deadly tidal wave devastates Reggio and prison collapse
A tidal wave engulfed Reggio Calabria on December 31 flooding the city to thirty feet. The Regio college pupils perished and the local prison collapsed with about 1,800 convicts believed dead. A torpedo boat sent from Santa Venere returned due to rough seas.
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Monteleone
Calabria
Reggio
Reggio College
Santa Venere
Earthquake in Spain Causes Floods and Losses
Dispatches from Madrid report earthquakes in Catalonia and Bilbao with the Nervion river flooding several buildings. Three people drown at Vigo amid rough seas. Yale Professor William H. Brewer connects Sicily quake to San Francisco fault. he notes a tidal wave likely caused land subsidence. Marseilles reports a powerful offshore shock near Messina with widespread destruction and hundreds of vessels adrift.
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Catalonia
Bilbao
Madrid
Vigo
San Francisco
New Haven
Conn
William H. Brewer
Yale
Sicily
Straits of Messina
Marseilles
Messageries Maritimes
Orenoque
Alexandria
Messina
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Catanzaro
Catangaro
Mestina
Cae Campo Santo
Church of Santa Maria
Condo
Bagnara
Aeolian Islands
Lipari
Scylla
Charybdis
Aneas
Morgan
Red Cross
J. P. Morgan
Ostrich
Boni
Beach- Wickham Grain
John A. Babcock
Is Witt
The
North American Commission Company
Spain
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