Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1915 — MANY KILLED BY EARTHQUAKE IN ITALY [ARTICLE]

MANY KILLED BY EARTHQUAKE IN ITALY

Estimated that 12,000 Persons Lost Their Lives and Many Cities Are in Ruins. Rome, Jan. 13.—Italy again has been visited by an earthquake of wide extent which, according to the latest advices has resutled in the death of 12,000 persons and injury to possibly more than 20,000 more in the towns and villages destroyed. The shock was the strongest Rome has felt in more than a hundred years. The town of Avezzano, in the Abruzzi department, 63 miles east of Rome, had been levelled to the ground. Here 8,000 persons are reported to have been killed. In many small towns surrounding Rome, buildings were partially wrecked, while at Naples a panic occurred and houses fell at Caserta, a short distance to the east, From below Naples in the south, to Ferrera in the north, a distance of more than 300 miles, and across almost the width of the country, the undulatory movement continued for a considerable period. In Rome, it was thought at first that two shocks had occurred, but the seismographic instruments in the observatories showed there was only one, which beginning at 7:55 o’clock in the morning, lasted from 22 to 30 seconds. In the capital itself, so far as is known, there was no loss of life, but a great deal of damage was done, churches Hfd statues suffering most.