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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1909
Page
14
Romans welcomed King Victor and Queen Helena as relief efforts scaled after the Calabrian coast quake. Ministers and ex ministers toured disaster sites while censorship hampered foreign dispatches. Fatalism grew among Sicilians and Calabrians as aid networks mobilized, with Pope and church groups coordinating medical and nurse relief across disrupted lines.
Reports describe Queen Helena tending to patients after a Montenegrin hospital quake scare. She comforted fear-stricken victims, consoled children, and personally administered care while the building trembled. During the panic she helped halt a stampede, preserving lives and showing courage.
The Rev C Ernest Smith preaches at St Thomas Church about Italy facing deadly lava flows from Vesuvius and Sicilian volcanoes. He says beauty and danger share the same land and urges universal aid beyond divisions, hoping the world aids the perishing as storms threaten.
Representatives of Italian societies met at Costello's Hall to plan fund raising. A society donated 42 and another 10, with total subscriptions reaching 600 by meeting end. A general Italian gathering at Eagle's Hall was set for Wednesday to determine contributions from each society and a charity concert was planned with the local magician's union offering services free.
Messages from Catania describe Messina and surrounding towns buried under collapsed buildings after Monday's quake and a deadly tidal surge. Troops patrol ruined streets while rescue work continues amid stench of corpses. consulates in ruins including American, French and Turkish. Rescue efforts aim to recover debris as survivors and refugees stream from the region.
Joseph Haywood, 26, a Brooklyn scenic artist for P. Dodd Acker man, fell 20 feet from a high set during a rehearsal of Mrs. Leslie Carter's new play Kass at the National Theater. Dr. W. Stanley Jones treated him and later admitted him to a sanitarium. His condition is not critical. Police and theater staff were active from morning through night with various rehearsals and stage preparations.
Weather Bureau bulletin reports rain and snow across the Pacific coast and Northwest, with a principal storm over the northern Rocky Mountains and a broad cold trend spreading from the Northwest to central valleys by Tuesday night. Temperatures fall in the Northwest, with winds shifting along Atlantic and Gulf coasts and a cold wave expected in the northern Rocky Mountains. Local observations in Washington area show midnight temperature 36, rising through the day to the upper 40s.
In a Church of the Covenant sermon Rev. Charles Wood cites Psalms xc 12 and notes a contribution for Italian quake victims. He laments the immense loss, recounts ships and soldiers aiding relief, and warns the year ended with a sense of humanity tested by 150,000 deaths.
Two service men from the Army and Navy Club staged a dog trot around Lafayette Square last night as part of athletic training mandated by the executive for athletics. They completed the route from Connecticut Avenue to Executive Avenue and Jackson Place showing fatigue yet persistence. A separate bulletin from Taormina reports Walter Kennedy and Charles Williams, believed lost in Messina, are safe there.
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