7housands of People in Towns Between Rome and Naples Killed by Earthquake HARRISBURG ifSSsli TELEGRAPH f LXXXIV — No. 10 EARTHQUAKE CLAIMS TOLL OF 50,000; DIVINE WARNING NOT TO ENTER WAR, ITALY'S BELIEF LIST OF CASUALTIES STEADILY INCREASES AS DETAILS OP LATEST HORROR ARE RECEIVED Thousands of People Are Buried Beneath Ruins of Buildings in a Dozen Towns Between Rome and Naples KING OF ITALY GOES TO AVEZZANO TO OFFER AID Pope Benedict Expresses Desire to Go to Scene to Help Distressed; People; Relief Committees Be ing Organized Rome, Jan 14. "With even' hour as additional and more ac curate details arc received, the horror of yesterday's earthquake increases, threatening to place it in the list of similar catastrophes in Europe second only to the Messina disaster of 1 ( )08. The list of dead, dying and in jured has increased from a re! A tively small figure last night to more than 50.000 according to an kiti'icial announcement to <lav and 'it is expected this number may grow before the day is over. The full extent of the property loss has not yet been determined. Jlere in Rome priceless statues, century-old buildings and struc tures that for years have been the inecca of all visitors have been destroyed or injured. Some expressed belief that the earthquake was a divine warning to Italy not to take part in the war and this conclusion was not confined to the ni;|-ses. It was heard even in official aijd palace circles throughout the day. The superstitious looked upon the dis aster as an omen which the Ital ian nation should heed. Traflic Is Suspended The greater part of the territory in Eastern Italy affected by the disturb ance is mountainous country. In some places railway tunnels were destroyed and it will be months before rail traf lic can resume its normal sway. The region most deeply affected ex tends for about 280 miles frnni north to south and about 100 miles from Mediterranean coast, east toward the Adriatic .Sea with the heart of the most terribly stricken area being in the valley of the Central Appenines. These mountains are not volcanic and the earthquake was not of vol canic origin, although from Naples it is reported that Vesuvius has been showing mpre than usual activity dur ing the past twenty-four hours. (tome appears to have escaped fa talities although some persons here were Injured. Though the loss of life, and possi bly the damage may be less than it was in J 908, the urea of the disturb ance greatly exceeds the Messina earthquake. It covers the whole cen tral portion of Italy, extending from | .Naples on the south to Ferrara on the I north. The most disastrous disturbance, [Continued on I'age 12] THE WEATHER For llarrinburg and vicinity t Fair nn<l slightly wnrmer to-night, with l«wf*t tempcra/ure about ;I5 rii'urpj'Hj Friday fair. For KaNtern lVun%yl\ nnla: Fair to it IK li t, Nllithtly warmer; Friday . fair; geuti- to moderate earn (o | Moutheafit wlndn. W River Nr r J'h.- Sii«<|tiehnniin river and It* principal tributaries u|l| /nil "lowly or remain nearly crifldhftH ary to-night and Friday. lATlngc of nlMiul !».0 feet IN ?ndlc:vtcd for „ Hnrrlnburis Friday morning. (■eiternl t ondltlouN Tlir Ytlnntlc eonat N(orm t pnnn ed of? wen ward and the lilgli pr en sure area from the Ohio and lower MIM«IXHIPPI Valley lia* moved eaNtivard to the eoawt. IN lielow normal over •.♦lie l-ake Iteglon and nearly nil the territory went of the >1l«- »l«*ippl river with two atorm center*, one over the Take Su perior region and the other over A* orth western Oregon. No pre cipitating haa occurred eaw/ of • the Itoeky mountains Mlnee la*t report, except along the Immedi ate Atlantic eoant from Mortli < nrollnn northwnrd to MnNNneliu aetta. Tempeialurei ** a. m.. 14. Mm: Hlxcft, 7:2« a. m.| acta, ftto2 p. m. Moon i New moon, to-morrow, I»i4- a. m. •liver Stage: »W» feet above low wnter mark. Yeaterdny*a Weather IliglicMt tent pern tu re, 44. l.owe«( temperature, H7. can temperature. 40. Normal temperature. lill. SCENES FROM ROME AND NAPLES, IN EARTHQUAKE ZONE, WHERE THOUSANDS LOSE LIVES } < ——— Scenes from Rome and Naples In the earthquake zone show some of the well-known places affected by the disturbance. On the upper left Is n view of Naples, where great panic seized the populace when the shocks came. On the upper right, is a view of the famous Obelisk in St. Peter's Square, Rome. Below on the left is seen the Palazzo Reale. in Casetta., where great loss of life has been reported. On the right is the Vatican Museum showing the Gallerla Delle Statue where costly images have been toppled from tehir pedestals to ruin. ENER TO LEAVE FOR CHICAGO ON TUESDAY Train Leaves Just 58 Minutes After Inaugural Ceremony; In Federal Suit | Governor Tcner will leave for Chi : cago next Tuesday immediately after | Governor-elect Brumbaugh makes his i address. It Is tlie plan of the Gover ; nor to accompany I)r. Brumbaugh to I the inaugural stand and to listen to I his address and to extend his best j wishes. The ceremony is to take place [Continued on Page ».] 600 ITALIANS HERE ! PEAR FOR RELATIVES Scores Have Friends, Parents, Brothers, Sisters Where Thou sands Are Dead More than i>oo people of Italian j birth and descent residing in this city | have relatives and friends liv ing vvitta | in fifty miles ol Rome and right in the midst of the territory which was 'shook by the earthquake, i Casimiro Gaeto, a tailor at "12 Lo cust street, has an aunt, Victoria I Gaeta, living at S Klia A Pianlsi, about no miles southeast of Rome, and is (anxiously waiting some word from I her. Nicola Conlone. employed by V. F. [Continued oil Pace 7] Christian Who Remained in Miandoab Massacred By Associated Press. i Petrograd, via London. Jan. 14, 9.13 a. m.—The correspondent of the Bourse Gazette at Tiflis sends a state ment made to him by Schoda Kd Daculeh, the former governor of the province of Azerbljun. Persia, who hits arrived in Tiflis. Ho is one of fqur survivors of a guard of 400 horsemen who defended the bridge at the en trance of Miandoab, "the gateway of Persia." He fought the Turks for ten I hours, enabling refugees to escape to i Maragha. 00 miles south of Tiflis. All j Christians who remained in Miandoab, j he stated, were massacred. | "When I heard that the Turks were I advancing," he said. "I posted 1.500 ; troops in one of the Miandoab forts and 1,20« in another. I myself with 400 relatives and friends fought a hopeless battle at the bridge until all but four were killed by the Turks' quickfirers. 1 then fled on horseback from Tabriz to .Tulfa. "All the members of the consulates 'and bank* escaped from Tabriz." HARRISBURG, PA., THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 14, 1915. EARTH SLIPPED, SAY 2 LOCAL GEOLOGISTS Professors Henchen and Smyser, of Central High, Explain Cause of Earthquake "The earth slipped." "This," declared Professor George N. C. Henschen, instructor of physics at Central high school, and one of the leading geologists of this city and the State of Pennsylvania, "is the cause of the earthquake which has devastat ed Italy from Rome to Naples." [Continued on Page o.] Wheat Prices Take Jump and Reach New High Price of $1.42 3-8 Per Bushel By Associated Press ChicHeo. HI.. Jan. 14. Grabbing up of Spring wheat by exporters swept the wheat market to-day to a new high record war level prices. May wheat easily reached 5i.42% a bushel, thus surpassing l the former tip-top quo tation , $1.41 which was reported January 8, before the bulls had been intimated by rumors that the Darda nelles would quickly be forced and that an attack by Italy on Turkey would hasten the end of the war. Girl, Terribly Burned, Dies in Much Agony Miss Zena Bangert. 16 years old, who was seriously burned a week ago at her home, 435 South Cameron street, died shortly before noon to-day at the Harrisburg Hospital where she had been taken for treatment. Miss Bangert was in the kitchen washing dishes near the stove when her clothing caught lire. Her mother was severely burned trying to extin guish the flames. Other members of the family rushed in the room when they heard the screams and put out the blaze. Her lower limbs and parts of the body were horribly burned. She died in extreme agony. Two Conductors Killed Under Same Circumstances By Associated Press Wilmington, Del., Jan. 14.—Though at widely separated points, two freight conductors on the Pennsylvania rail road last night met death under cir cumstances almost identical. The victims were Thomas O. But ler, 50 years old. this city, and Wil liam K. Sill, 54 years old, of Chester. Both had served 25 years In the ser vice of the company. Butler was kill ed af Harrington, Del., and Sill at Thurslow. Pa. Each was taking a manifest anil was standing near his train when lie was run down by a iocomotiv e. BACKBONE OF HARD ! TIMES BEING BROKEN Penna. Steel Co. Receives Orders For 10,000 Tons of Material; Forerunner of Others The Pennsylvania Steel Company to-day .received orders for about 10,000 ; tons of steel rails, girders and cast-1 ings. While the orders are not unusually | large for His time of the year, com- i pany officials say, it is indicative of i larger orders to come within the next I 1 [Continued on Page 9.] I King Forgets War in Effort to Carry Aid to His Stricken People Rome, Jan. !1. King Victor Em- j nianuol, at a late hour last night, left ] in a motor oar for Avezzanno, accom- J pani id bv General jurusati, one of his aids. Before leaving the city the king was j reminded of Hie International situs-' tion, it being: thought this might keep him in Home. To this suggestion the , king replied: "The Milder lngs of my people nve 1 nearer my heart than anything else." | Wilson Favors Suffrage For New Jersey Women Washington, 1). C„ Jan. 14. —Dr. Anna .Howard Shaw. Mrs. Medill [ MoCormick and Airs. Winston Church- | ill. woman suffrage leaders, called on | President Wilson to-day and discussed j the suffrage amendment to the con- ( stitution in New Jersey, now pending ' in the legislature. After their meeting Dr. Shaw issued a statement, saying they had not dis cussed the national issue and which concluded as follows: "We have eoine away from our in terview with the distinct impression that very shortly the President will come out with a statement favorable to suffrage in the state of New Jersey." PITTSBURGII \TTOHVF.Y IS HIOLI) OX BRIBKRY CHARGE Parkersburg. W. Va., Jan. 14.—A. l«eo Weil, of Pittsburgh, chief counsel i for the Maunfacturers' Light and Heat Company, was arrested on a train at Williamstown, W. Va., early to-day by Sheriff Banner 11 ill, of Charleston, ' charged with attempting to bribe C. j IT Bronson. of the Public Service Commission, in an effort to influence a I decision In which the light company Is | Interested. Well was brought here and j soon afterward started for Charleston with the sheriff. Rronson is a brother in-law of Governor Hatfield. STURM DASIAUK XT SKA BRIGHT Sea Bright, N. J.. Jan. 14. A few more mornings like this, ami there will be no Sea Bright. A high tide wreck ed cottages already weakened by previ ous inundations and swept out to sea thousands of cubic yards of solid earth. jCONFiDEIT SUFFRAGE BILL WILL BE PASSED Leaders Here Feel That Measure Is Sure to Pass the State Legislature Victory for woman suffrage in Penn sylvania is tiie confident anticipation lof the otlicials of the Pennsylvania I Woman Suffrage Association, whose I headquarters are in the Arcade build ling, Walnut and Court streets, this ' I city. I Pinal passage of tlie bill submitting [Continued on Page !).] i FATHER: CHARGED BY DAUGHTER: 0! TRIAL Criminal Attacks Upon Her, She Says; Only Spanked Her, He Says i Father and daughter faced each I other as defendant and prosecutrix in ( January quarter sessions to-day when j John li. Schell, 2116 Derry street, was I tried upon charges growing from his alleged criminal attack upon Anna I Schell. I According to the girl's story, her father made two different attempts; at | one time she fought him off, she said, j and the next time he succeeded. I Schell. who most of the time quietly cried as he sat beside his counsel, de nied the charge and said the only time he had raised his hand against her was when she had been impudent, calling him a liar and some other un printable names. < >:i these occasions, he frankly admitted, he had spanked her in the old-fashioned way. other witnesses of the neighborhood testified as to the honesty and integrity of Schell, while the veracity of his daughter Anna was said to bo of a questionable character. The ease was concluded with the j noon adjournment and was given to j the jury this afternoon by President I Judge Kunkel. Attorney John P. Geyer. of Pox fc Geyer, was engaged to defend 11. K. ! Mercer, who was arraigned with Henry | Ijißrun for rorger.v and false pre- I tenses. Judge Kunkel tried this ease. I too. One witness for the State is James E. Madlgan. a bookkeeper of . the Harnett National Bank, of Jaek i sonville, Kla., who will testify that the check given by Mercer and Uaßrun on that bank and signed "John A. Red mond' is valueless, as there is no one in that bank or in the city, so far as he knows, who bears the name. In' No. S! room Andria Loncarevle was acquitted of n charge of assault and Steve Kancar got a *lO line on an assault and battery charge. Mike Stephanie got a month on a similar j charge. 14 PAGES $17,168,611 Given to Foreign Mission Boards New York. Jan. 14.—The total in come of American foreign mission boards during tlie year 1014 was $17,- lfiS.6ll, according to statistics made public to-day at the annual meetlm? of the foreign missions conference. These figures cover the work of all American organizations during edu cational and philanthropic as well as missionary work outside the United States and Canada except that work conducted under the auspices of cer tain other mission boards in Mexico, Porto Rico. Hawaii and Alaska. For this work $500,510 was contributed during the year. ■ MAY SURPASS MESSINA CATASTROPHE T \ • London, Jan. 14, 4.27 P. M.—A news dispatch recc r \ here from Rome says that the members % Deputies foi • ■ # J K fl I m will be greater. w J BLEASE RESIGNS AS GOVERNOR ■ Columbia, S. C., Jan. 14.—Governor Cole Blease, whose K | term of office expires January 19, to-day filed his resignati I 1 with the secretary of state. C | 15,000 DEAD IN AVEZZANO I ifrom Avezzano declare that the dead in that city and in its S vicinity in the earthquake yesterday number more than K teen thousand persons. I COLONEL MANN TO BE BRIGADIER GENERAL ( Washington, Jan. 14.—President Wilson to-day no. € inated Colonel William A Mann, third infantry, to be a C brigadier general. 4 WHEAT GOES UP ANOTHER CENT 5 Chicago, Jan. 14.—Before business came to an end May 9 wheat ran up another full cent a bushel higher to $1.43? a . A g 9 rush of profit taking however, led to a sudden reaction and g K the market closed unsettled at $1.423 ' A and $1.42%, a gain # J of .1 and 21 a compared with last night. | ALLIES DROP BOMBS ON ANTWERP # M Amsterdam, Jan. 14, via London, 5.30 P. M.—The Tele- # g graaf in its issue of to-day says it has learned that British a # aviators last Monday dropped bombs on the German po- F t sitions at Antwerp. The damage inflicted has not beet C # learned. g J DESTRUCTION OF CITY COMPLETE 2 £ Rome, Jan. 14, va London, 4.47 P. M.—The destructi g # of the town of Avezano, a community of some 12,000 people g K in Aquila province, by the earthquake yesterday is very com- g 9 plete. There is good authority for the statement that not g k more than ten per cent, of the population survived the dis- r X aster. f I MARRIAGE ~ g L Hiirrl* Arthur \tirnnli nmi Aisncn ( InrlHn llrUhtn, Tyronr. Jf I nrmi *lurr r.Hhrlnuin »n<l Vnnii lliirrlrl WIINIIII, MrrKon. i F Jomjph K. UKIIN ii II(I L<ln M. llrrra, ICnoln. X * POSTSCRIPT RUSSIAN FORCES HAVE AGAIN UNDERTAKEN AN OFFENSIVE MOVE Army in North Ready to Penetrate East Prussia From Two Directions WEATHER CHECKS FIGHTING j Ordinary Passenger Traffic Ovef Railroads in Germany Has Been Suspended Russia ha* once morp undertaken an offensive movement aKainst two of jlhe three nations she is fighting. Af | ter a long period of Inactivity lier forces in tiie north are ready to pene jtrate from two directions into East I Prussia, where Russia several months ago sustained one of the most severe j defeats of tlie war. In the Caucasus ! Russian forces are again engaged In heavy lighting with the Turks who. according to official Petrograd ad vices, have sustained large losses in the late encounters. In Galicia and Bukowina. where Russia's activities are directed against Austria, there is now little activity, | severe weather having checked mili tary operations. On the western battlefields. the lighting in the region of Soissons has developed into unexpectedly large proportions. Roth the Germans and the allies apparently have thrown in. heavy reinforcement*, and definite de feat for either side might result in the reshaping of th« Rattle line over a long section of the fro*t. Ordinary Traffic Stopped Xot only in the Soissons region but lelsewhere along the front Germany is believed to lie sending In more troops in response to the movement of Eng land. which is pouring in fresh sol diers weekly by the thousands. Ordi 'nary passenger traffic over railroads In j Germany lias been suspended for sev j eral days and it is assumed that ex tensive movements of troops are un- I der way. Although the Russian forces in Northern Persia apparently offered no ! resistance to the Turkish advance on jTiflis. small forces of Persians de- I fended their country from Invasion, but with no success. Of a guard of 400 Persian horsemen at Mlandoab, [Continued on Piigt* 12]
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