Hammond Times, Volume 3, Number 165, Hammond, Lake County, 31 December 1908 — Page 8

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'HIE TRIES. Thursday. Dec. 31, 1908. Messina, Second City of Sicily, Wrecked, arid Great Numbers of Its Inhabitants Killed 9" South Bend Interurban Ser

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EXCITING RAGES WITH STEAM GARS On New Carlisle-South Bend Fifteen-Mile Stretch, Electric and Steam Eoads Parallel and Passengers On Both Lake Shores Are Entertained. The Chicago, Lake .Shore & South Bead trains raaaiagr lw.ma Gary and South Bend have now reached such a artase of perfection In operation that a apeed of nearly a mile a minute la maintained on stretches of the roadbed. Certain officials of the line who were In Gry recently told of exciting races which had recently occurred on the line between their trains and those of the Lake Shore railroad. - On the stretch between New Carlisle and -South Bend where the two roads parallel for a distance of fifteen miles, there is seldom a day but what sees most exciting races. The officials of the interurban say that with an ordinary passenger train their electric cars simply walk away from the train. They some times let them pass the cars and then catch up to them just, for fun. Can Out-Da "20th Century." Manager H. U. Wallace of the interurban,' Attorney J. E. Lewis Meyers and other officials of the company are 'accustomed every morning- to leave South Eend on a certain car Just for the purpose of seeing the race between their car and the Twentieth Century limited. .They claim that while they are both running at their best speed that the interurbans can even out-run the famous Twentieth Century. In regard to the Toleston spur which the road is building, they now have the track almost completed and are busy ' strining the wires. They expect to have the line in operation by ten days or two weeks. OVANCE GUARD OFF FOB STATE CAPITAL Attorney Bretsch of Gary on the Ground for Superior CourtWill FEEL 01)1 HEHBERS Committee b Ready to Spend Thousands of Dollars and" Wants Solons to Visit City. Atty, C. Bretsch' of Gary left today for the state capital where he will spend his time for severt.1 days to come looking over the situation and preparing to sound the alarm when the time arrives for the Lake superior cour question to come up in the legislature, so that the lobbyists of Gary can be on the floor when the bill comes up for passage. The exact plan of the Citizens' Gen eral comm'.ttee to secure favorable legislation will not be divulged by them, owing to the fact that they do not desire to show their hand to their opponents, in the race.. The only thing that they' were willing ,.to release, however, is the fact that they will invite the legislature to this city to see for themselves the conditions" which exist. A member of the finance committee which , was appointed to raise enough money to fight for the court, said yesterday that he thought that there would be no difficulty, if it was necessary to raise $3,0io from the various associations which have taken the matter up. If the legislature is not brought to Gary, a' large amount of this money will be spent in sending to Indianapolis a big delegation who will work among their friends in the legislature. GARY COUPLE HEWED (Special to The Times.) Chicago. III.. Dec. 31. Emll Thurow, a Gary carpenter, was remarried to his wife at Genevea, 111., yesterday afternoon. Last October Mrs. Thurow in a Lake county court got a divorce from her husband on the grounds of desertion. They met again during the holidays ar.d decided that life without each ether wasn't worth living-. "

- - j ' J yS E HITS MESSINA f Continued from Pace One. the pier to embark on the regrular steamer for Naples were killed.. The volcano Stromboll Is active and the seas around the Island are agitated and dangeorui to navigation. DAY IN AVOE STRICKEN ITALY. Naples, Dec. 30. One hundreds thousand are dead in the city of Messina alone. Probably less than 10,000 human beings escaped alive from the earthquake, fire and tidal wave that devastated Sicily and Calabria. Reggie di Calabria, which the king Is visiting tonight, has been mostly swallowed up in an immense fissure, and the remainder of the town is in ruins. FIFTY THOUSAND DEAD IN REGGIO. Major Pelligone, in command of the troops there, states that his men already have extricated 300 bodies. He estimates the dead at Reggio at about 50,000. , . If the estimates of 100,000 dead at Messina is correct and 50,000 dead at Reggio the final count will go far over 150,000. This information is brought here by refugees, who ' come by hundreds on warships and merchart vessels that hasten back to the work of relief. And while the wires and ships were bringing news of the death of men by the hundred thousand, a baby was born on the German steamer Therapie as it neared this port with hundreds of wounded refugees aboard. OTHER TOWN SHAKEN. There were further earth shocks at Messina during the night of Tuesday, which added to the panic of the sur vivors. Violent arth shocks were experienced at Syracuse at 5:30 this morning. The people of Syracuse, terrified and fearful, rushed through the streets in the surrounding open country. Two violent shocks were felt on the island of Ustica last night. Ustica is forty miles off the north coast of Sicily. The inhabitants of the Island spent the night shivering in terror in the fields. HOUSES FALL INTO FISSURE. According to other refugees not a single hotel remained standing. A fissure sixty feet deep opened near the church of Santa Maria and houses fell bodily into it. The Therapia brought thirty German and 600 other fugitives. During the voyage to Naples several Injured women died and one child was born. A physician named Condo, a native of Messina, said he escaped b3( climbing over the fallen roofs. Houses vanished with the suddenness of a dream, and daylight showed nearly two miles of ruins. Steamers put out to cross the straits for help after the first shock of the earthquake, but half way over they met vessels from the opposite coast, which carried the news that Reggio, too, had ferished. Some of - the fugitives aboard the Therapia hastily left the ship when It reached this port. In some cases abandoning their children, in cases abandoning their hildren. Ten more steamers with fugitives are expected to arrive here within the next . day or . two, and every effort is being made to prepare shelter for them. Naples is the center of the relief organization and all social functions have been postponed. ' The few refugees that have arrived here from Calabria are almost too unnerved to speak .of their terrible experiences. - , . , "WHOLE . NATION IS STUNNED. Rome, Dec. 30. The whole nation is stunned by the enormity of the catastrophe it has experienced, and even yet the vastness of the disaster is not realized. Previous estimates of 200,000 dead are now considered conservative. New problems of the most . grave sort are confronting the nation as results of the earthquake, tidal wave and fires. Great hordes of fugitives from the ruined cities are invading them and swamping the relief forces. Thousands are wandering demented over' hills and plains, many entirely nude," all starving and many seriously 111. Flame Is still at work in the ruins of cities destroyed by the quake, and the countless bodies In the debris already promise pestMence. Relief work is under way on a vast scale, but it is pitifully inadequate, and it will be days before a semblance of order is restored. ITALY STANDS APPALLED. Rome, Dec. 30. The immensity of the

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S 4 t. 2"he Town If in he Zone of . disaster in southern Italy and Sicily can only be measured by the fact that it is now estimated that 110,000 persons perished in Messina and Reggio alone. A score of other towns have been devested and thousands of victims In these places must be added to the roll. In the face "of these awful totals, all Italy stands appalled. ' ; ' Nor has the full death list yet been reached. Ship loads of fugitives have arrived at Naples and other ports, and the vast majority of these are sorely Injured. Other thousands remain near the ruins of their homes or wander half-starving, half-clothed over the land. The forces that on Monday overwhelmed the cities also destroyed the means of sustenance. Telegraphic communication has been established with Messina, the apparatus having been established in a railway van. Messages which have come over the line, though they have been meager In detail, show that hope is gone. . Nothing remains of the city but a mass of ruins that have been swept by fire. A'few survivors are being cared for by the rescuing forces, but their distress is great and it has been Increased by the violent Icy winds that followed the deluge of rain. Destitution is everywhere and appalling. There Is little food and less water. ' Of Messina's 60,000 population " it is believed that fully '70,000 perished. Forty thousand persons died in Reggio. Catania, Dec. 30. I have Just returned from Messlaa. The city is absolutely destroyed. " The spectacle is a terrifying one. The ruins are now the" prey of roaring flames. A great conflagration broke out Immediately after the earthquake and devoured all that the earth jshocks- had spared. ' Nearly the entire population is buried in the debris. The latest calculations place the total number of survivors at only 10,000. The dead at Messina alone reach the stupendous figure of nearly 100,000. Help from the outer world Is at last beginning to reach the stricken city. The British ' cruiser Sutlej steamed in today from Malta and was followed by the Russian battleships Slava and Czarewltch and the cruiser Admiral Makarouf. The officers and men of the two navies are giving every possible aid, yet their task is a fearful one. ' DIG IN VAIN FOR FOOD. Under the pelting rain open-air hospitals are being installed in what were one the streets of the town. The sights on every hand are so moving, so tragic, that it is almost impossible to describe them adequately in terms of human language. The utmost depths of anguish and suffering seem to have been sounded and imagination stands aghast before the effect of this catas- . trophe. The entire garrison of Messina has perished In the ruins and people who survive unhurt cannot escape from the vast emolterlng tomb in which tbelr kinsmen, wives, husbands, parents and children He. The sea is closed to them

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1 of Viaiirrx from Rtzirij LOUCKSRISII !!! RAILROAD WORLD Will Take Charge of East Chicago Office of Pere Marquette. GRADUATE OF HIGHSCHQOL Has Made Good in Business World and Further Advancement " " Is in Sight. (Special to The Times.) East Chicago, Ind., Dec. 31. That the average East Chicago boy is capable of raising to a point of vantage la every mart of human activity has been demontstrated .heretofore, and it re mained but for Virgil Loucks, of Ma gound avenue to demonstrate his abil ity to progress. In' a letter received by Mr. Loucks yesterady, he was In formed that commencing Jan. 1st, he would fill the position of agent for tha Pere Marquette railroad in this city. He will succeed Mr. J. H. Galliver, who has been with the corporation for a number of years and who will take) charge of what is known as the Tracey Avenue station in Chicago. Mr. Loucks Is a thorough East Chi cago boy, and was a member of tha local high school class, graduating in 1904. For the past four years he has engaged In railroad office work, on April 1st of last year accepting a position as cashier for the P. M. Ry In this city. His advancement is a rapid one and almost established a record in railroal circles! An Important Office. The Pere Marquette local branch 1$ for freight uses only and operates over? the C. T.'T. belt tracks. Notwithstanding this fact,' the East Chicago station is regarded as the most important between Chicago and Michigan .City, as at this point the transfer records to the Chicago belt, lines are made. The freight business over the -P. M.. in a single month often amounts to as high as $40,000. "' ,. : As his chief clerk, .Mr. Loucks has selected Marion Westby, of - this city, wro for some time has been working for the Indiana Harbor road at Gibson. Those who know both Mr. Westby and the new agent are confident that the business of the road will bo strictly watched and the Interests of the road guarded to the utmost. May Be a Whrted Sepulcher. It is a woman's way to think there Is always some good in a man who

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