New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 15, 1915, Page 1

W — e >t ERALD BEST OF ALL #-LOCAL NEWSPAPERS NE N 'PRICE THREE CENTS. NEW BRITAIN CONNECTICUT. FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 1015—SIXTEEN PAGE>. WIVE BURIED WITH DEAD IN RUINED ITALIAN HOMES; ¥, RESCUE WORK PROCEEDING Rome, Jan. 16.—Constantly shift- | ing estimates based on reports that t | continue to trickle in now place the ! Uideath toll from Wednesday's earth- | ..guake at 20,000 and the injured at a gure in excess of 365,000. * Hundreds, possibly thousands, ~ Hoctims are still buried alive, % Misoned by the wreckage of f homes, while rescuers from & walk of life struggle desperately to dig them out. King Victor Em- ¥ manuel, who returned to Rome from | f§ Avezzano last night, personally su- perintended the -release of a number pf such unfortunates. The king reached the capital in his brivate car, to which were attached | hree coaches bearing forty wounded. [Fhese, llke the other hundreds \\'ho‘ fre slowly reaching Rome, wer i buted about the hospitals, reg nd’extraordinary, in the cits Pope Offers Hospital, Pope Benedict this morning offered “ o tne mayor of Rome the use of the hospital of Santa Marta, which he visited yesterday. The offer was ‘ paratefully accepted, and its 300 beds ‘serve as a material relief for the dif- ficult situation. | The principal loss of life, and probably the chief property damage, nppears to have occurred in Avez- zano, .and the town of Sora, fifteen miles away. Both these municipali~ cs were blotted out of existence and | *\eir populations virtually wiped out. of | im- | their every 10,000 Dead at Avezzano. The latest reports place the num- ber of dead in Avezzano at 10,000 and ‘at Sora at 6,000. In at least sixty other towns affected more than 6,000 have been killed. "From these towns \wcome the majority of the injured. In ~Avezzano and Sora almost every one was killed. ‘' The situation in Avezzano 1s in- creasingly grave because of the de- struction of the aqueduct system and the consequent shutting off of the water supply. Communications are slowly being re-established and ' two hastily improvised hospitals and one refugece camp have been set up. From Switzerland reports have een received showing that the quake was felt among the Alps, and caused destructive avalanches there. A message from Innsbruick states that in the Alps, near the Itallan frontier twenty-seven soldiers were overwhelmed by an' avalanche caused +by the earthquake and that three of #he men were seriously hurt. Relief Work Progressing. The Italian government and people have quickly responded to the call for * help from the stricken people. Thousands of troops have been sent to the scene and the work of rescue and relief is going on night and day. Supplies of food, clothing, blankets nd medicines have been despatched y train where possible and by motor cars where the railroads are blocked. |* The central committee of the Red U Cross was quick to act, having or- dered all of its members to join in “the relief work at the scenes of the disaster. Pope Deeply Grieved. w, Pope Benedict is deeply grieved over the misfortune which has be- fallen the Italian people. He showed his deep interest and sympathy ves- terday by an unusual visit to the Santa Marta hospital, where forty-one per- scns, injured during the earthquake, are receiving treatment. , His Holiness spoke to each of the patients asking for particulars of the djsaster and inquiring about their familiefs. He assured them that he would entrust to the clergy the task of seeking their relations, and im- parted to all the apostolic benedic- tion. Expresses Sympathy of America. The American ambassador, Thomas Nelson Page, called at the ministry @9of the interfor yesterday to express the, sympathy of America over the dis- aster which has befallen Italy. He in- timated a desire to send members of the embassy to the earthquake dis- aster to give such ald as they could. He was informed that the Italian gov- crnment would appreciate such sym- pathetic initiative, and soon there- gtsr the ambassador despatched an tomobile with Second Secretary Norval Richardson, Lieutenant Com- mander Charles Train, the naval at- tache, and Private Secretaries John Harrison and@ Marion Sims Wyeth to the Avezzano district, with supplies, especially blankets, which they will distribute. The party expects to re- ™ turn to Rome by Friday night. American Relief Committee. Ambassador Page is ready to ap- point an American relief committee, while Mrs. Page will appoint a com- mittee of ladies if necessary to aid in the Itallan work of relief. Dld Not Leave Vatican. Some of the newspapers announce that Pope Benedict, in visiting the \v wounded at the Santa Marta Hospi- ¥ tal, left the Vatican, thus " the traditional imprisonment of the Pope since the fall of the temporal power, meaning thus to e Toll of Dead and Injured Increasing---Soldiers | and Civilians Work Day and Night, Occa- | sionally Finding a Live Body. interrupting protest | reality the Pontiff did not leave the Vatican, but, passing through tho apostolic palace inside of St. Peter's he vreached the hospital without touching ltalian soil. His precedes- sor did the same thing when he visit- ed the wounded brought to Santa Marta Hospital after the earthquake in Messina. i When the king was Avezzano | vesterday he was indefatigable in his efforts to encourage and help his peo- ple. He climbed over the ruins and spoke words of praise to the res- | cuers. On several different occasions | he urged the people to repress any- thing like an ovation for himself, and did not even want them to applaud his presence. He spoke kindls to | the wounded and promised -them as; sistance. He witnessed the cation of a young girl still alive, ' directions for her succor, and the next | moment was sending telegraphic or- ders for the despatch of further help | and provisions to Avezzano. | Not Safficiently Recovered. Sceme of tha survivors at Ave no have not even yet sufficiently recov- ered from the shock of their exper- iences to tell a connected story of the visitation One man who was taken yesterday from a ruin said: I had a | sensation as though some one we forcing me to dance. Then I was thrown to the ground, and the roof and the walls fell upon my head. Even after 1 was half buried the earth seemed to heave and grow hot.” A priest was saying mass in a church when he felt the first shock. He rushed under an arch of the build- ing and this saved his life. His acolytes were struck down and killed. The shocks destroyed the agueduct system of Avezzano, and there is to- day no water in the town. Thrown Into Water. It is reported that a statue of the Virgin, forty feet high, which stood on the shore of Lake Fucino, has been thrown into the water. There s considerable danger that the drained land in this vicinity will be flooded. A wagoner’'s appremntice, a boy of 18 years, was the first person to give | the news of Avezzano to the outside world. He succeeded in getting back inta the town a few moments after the first shock. He found a railroad employe and persuaded this | man, with his help, to rig up a tel. egraph instrument in a freight car and connect it with a wire that waa still intact. Calling on the instru- ment, the railroad man, who is an operator, soon got Rome. The twa together then sent the first news of the disaster. There has been organized in Rome a private expedition to send out au- tomobiles loaded with reHef supplies. Over 200 machines already have left for Avezzano, carrying blankets, med- icines, food and cordials. Among the members of the Italian nobility active in relief work are Prince Borghese, Prince Colonna, Prince Altieri and Prince Potenziano. Anxious About Bishop. The pope is anxious about the fate of Monsignor Jannotta, bishop of | Sora, from whom nothing has been | heard since the earthquake. | ‘“Latest reports of casualties set | forth that there were seventy victims | of the earthquake at Castellieri; thirty-seven dead and 170 wounded at Isola, and ten dead at Capalacroce. At this last mentioned place the casualties are almost all among the | relatives of the local priest, 4,000 Dead at Pescini. London, Jan. 15, 4:32 p. m.—The Exchange Telegraph company has reecived - a message from its Rome correspondent who says that the magnitude of the Italian disaster in- creases as further news from the de- vastated area is received. The cas- ualties at Magliano-Di-Marsi are esti- mated at 1,800 out of a population of 1,600, At Pescini 4,000 persons are reported to have been killed, and the number of dead at San Benedetto is given at 3,000, All the people of the village of Capelle are believed to be buried in the ruins of their homes. The en- tire population of Albafucenzo also is believed to have perished, and out of 500 inhabitants in the village of Lese, 450 are said to be dead. Destroyed or Damaged. Every town in the Livi Valley is reported today to have been efther totally destroyed or very seriously damaged. The work of rescue at Sora is being pushed forward with all possible ex- pedition. There is, however, little hope of saving any of the people allve. King Victor Emmanuel is going to Sora today. Between 90,000 and London, Jan, 15.—The Chronlcle's Rome correspondent estimates the total killed and injured in the ltalian earthquake at ‘hetween 100,000. A central News despatch Rome imates the number tims at 20,000, distributed 100,000, 90,000 und from of vie- | as follows: | | against the occupation of Rome. In (Continued on Fifteenth Page.) !'sons, Rome felt part of the great earth- quake which devastated Italy. Many of the famou$ buildings and ments were 'damaged. A general view of Rome is seen here, showing St. monu- ‘Z’iyes of World on jtaljé as Rome Gives Refuge to Many Earthquake Homeless = Peter’, Tnousands of homeless per- sons in the central part of [Italy, which was the section most affected, are in a pitiful condition. Many them are flocking to Rome. A BRITISH ADVANCE ONE MILE. NEAR LA BASEE Germans Driven Back With Heavy Losses South of victory not recorded the official statements from Paris or Berlin, and described as of import- ance, is reported unofficially from St. Ome France. It is said that on January 10 the British stormed the German entrenched positions near Lia Bassee, in France, about ten miles south of the Belgian border, driv- ing back the Germans with heavy losses and advancing one mile. The positions involved are of consider- able strategic value, but confirmation of their reparted capture is lack- ing. Heavy fighting continues near Sois- where the Germans have won important advantages oyer the allies. Near ,Perthes, in the”Argopne, and uppey: Alsace and elgewheye/Slong the western front, where there ‘Wave been heavy engagements recently, activity has subsided. Other phases of the military situation in the west appar- ently have been subordinated for the present to that in the Saissons region, the outcome of which may exercise a marked influence on future oper- ations over a long section of the front. The Turkish forces which penetrat- er Persia, occupying Tabriz, are now advancing into the interior. Rus- sia explains her evacuation of Tab- riz as due to strategic reasons which necessitated a re-grouping of her troops. The Porte is said to have offered to withdraw Turkish forces from Persia if Russia also would do so. Today's says that ras were bayonet portant gion. The Russian general staff expects concerted attack by the Germaa west and southwest of War- German troops have been sent assistance of the Austrians ‘= to relieve Bukowina and Hungary from the danger Russian advances. A British French German captured charge. change official statement positions near Ar- by Zouaves in a There is no im- in the Soissons re- a forces SAW. to the an effort northern of further LAUNDRY CORPORATE! A certificate of incorporation of the Relinhle Arch street filed today ity concern wus The R 000. Gag- The- andry on with the incorporated clerk for business with $5 Philias J Joseph T is and will start The incorp ner, Fred berge. tors e Beloin and in | BERLIN TO ASK FOR CLAUSE IN CHARTER Selectman Gibney Requested By Con- stituents to Consult Charter Re- vision Committee. Concurring with the request of a number of his constituents Selectman William H. Gibney of Berlin will probably go befove the charter revi- sion committee at its meeting next Tuesday evening and ask that, for probable . future = convenience, a clause giving the City of New Britain the right to extend its water mains from Towers' corner to Kensington, be inserted in the charter. It is estimated by prominent Ken- sington pegple who are interested in the water question, that more than 300 people would benefit by the ex- tension of the local water system into Kensington where, because of the Jack of running water, there is abso- lutely no fire protection. Although considerable agitation is rife nothing definite has been done as regards furthering the water system to Kensington. If, however, the clause giving this city the authority to do so, is put into the new charter, it will simplify matters. when the question is taken up. TOO POOR TO MAKE CHANGE.. New Haven Road's Petition for Sus- pension of Order Is Granted. Poverty on the part of the New Haven railroad has put a crimp In the plans of the city for the abolition of the grade crossing on Corbhin avenue. City Clerk Thompson re- ceived a communication today from the public utilities commission stating that the petition of the railroad com- pany for a suspension of the order for the elimination of the crossing had been granted and that no action was to be expected until September 15. At that time the commission will investigate the financial condition of the company to learn whether it should be required to do the work. All the planning must be done by the railroad. Tt must take land for for the elimination of the crossing and do all other work in connection with the abolition of the crossing. Af- ter all expenses have been totalled one-fourth of the expense will he charged to the city. This will auir pecial appropriation by board of finance and taxation re- a the e WEAN o HER, Hartford, Jan. tled and slightly night. Saturday 15.—Unset- colder to- fair. e ey typi- | cal group of women and children whol live in the devastated section is here shown. Messina, which was bad enough, has been equaled if not out- done by the present catastrophe, One of the pictures shows a Messina earthquake scene, TWO MEN UNDER ARREST «FOR MURDER OF CASE Third Under Detention at Poughkeepsie in Connec- tion With Tragedy. Winsted, Jan. 15 With two under arrest here in connection killing of County Commissioner bert B. Case at Barkhamsted, last vember, and a third man, who believe may be able to throw men with Hu- they some light on the affair, under detention at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., the local, coun and state authorities believed today that they were nearing a solution of the mystery surrounding the fatal as- sault upon the county commissioner in his general store at Barkhamsted. The men locked up here are Arthur Pfaefflin, 26 years old, of Colebrook and Isaac N, Williams of Bridgeport. The man under detention Pough- keepsie is a Harry Rowe, said to have at been arrested there for burglary, and | who it is understood was to be sen- tenced to prison for that offense to- day. The authorities here and the state police are investigating to termine if Rowe has any knowledge of the murder, as they claim to have | learned that Williams and Rowe were | friends and had been seen here and near Barkhamsted together about the time of the murder. Pfaefflin was employed as care- taker on a summer residence in Cole- brook, and he was arrested in that town last night. Williams was em- ployed by Pfaefflin's father, Maurice Pfaeffiin of Colebrook as driver of an fce wagon. Later he went to Bridge- port, and was married there on Sep- tember 10 last. At that time he gave his age as 28, his residence Bridgeport, and his occupation as railroad man. He was arrested last night at Bridge- port. Case was assaulted in his general store at Barkhamsted on the night of November 28, being struck over the head with a heavy iron wagon axle, the blow fracturing his skull and causing his death the following day. DR. SWASEY IMPROVING, Vcenerable Physician Feeling Better and Contemplates Sea Voyage, Trastus P. Swasey, the vener- West Maln street physiclan and T has been undergoing treatment at the Charter Oak hospl- tal In Hartlford, is showing ateady im- provement und is again at his home It s sald that Dr. Swasey is pl nng to take A long sea voyage hopes of entirely recuperating. Dr, able whao econ, in de- | 50 TURNED (ABOUT ‘ TO POLICE FUND I SHIE THE M oF Big Brothcrho Plan Work nELP THEM TOB Laundable Movem Over $9,000 in ) siom Fund Now,— But One Oficer on Retired New Britain's fund was augmented of it $560 this when Chicf Rawlings and ergeant Herting out the big safe collected all accumulated been confiscated vears welt | have been has been any con depariment to the police pension extent 1he morning tozether that the past all witness fee turned in and ar obtained from the fiscated scrap The Pension f partment has | of iving financial fiv all lguor 1 into fund. Al from gift gambling made all mcney found on the of the is retu but moncy tak he p small, he gamblers criminat monies during have four as as tha cash that salc of Hax Bullding nd of a only the | Migh Qualit men e rece of pared sund cent focs turned monies muat The of lod; grea this ad lional scope come Eritain b fiscation \When a raid is o 1., will ne!l to h from the t fund. T because m, P bl 1 t noon at 3 \ocused ted, at m any n n rotherhood col Bocs very o'el for st} help in soclety( # for bette The col Judge B. F. Ga W, Klett, Judg President B, 1 board of publie 1 William J, O'Connor, Edw Penfleld and ¥ of thiz city, El n and W, J ville ver craity n the Sometimes a generous witne his sixty cents fee th Sometimcs the police confis a junk that is never ¢ a med price obt ercfrom the fund all other fiscated At the mes be muade arc tco to leav: in angle to tal le i s turn tod fund the ng money o re d alnej t reveris to does cash con time the was madc on i(he was almost $9,000 | i#8 now a little | Johnson is at tired officer on the pencion others all having dica Captain Patrick e Wa pensioner to away MAKES LOVE TO TWO, BORROWS AND FLEES oMclal penzion fund on ceposit and it than that. Anson only list The the last rejort there more ent the re- the Ia Build a No concrete future New Bril ed, but it is ex will be arrangel adjo In of moveme boys the into théem a desl and tc inspire tion to wo reach the age | their world batt take boye at th in to point that leads to an to wean them and influences, Originated By This pass Inns the on | Lee Street Man Acquires Money to be Pay Hospital Bill and Skips Out. lfe ‘He didn't | borrowed it want him stcal the money, he just But just the same we¢ arrested and the money returned.” Two very down cast visited Detective Sergeant | Bamforth this afternoon and in- | Elkdom, It hal | formed him thut one John BSedena, | & number of who lived at No. 72 Grove street, has | Brotnerhood pls been missing since Monday and by Past Grand incident with his disappearance both | Herrmann . Sophie Kovalzick and Mary Rusia, | cess in other two pink cheeked young girls liviug | sults and by at the same house, secined much dis- | boys taken um ‘“.,;,w ing influefices, Investigation The original | approached the movament | Individually and made violent love assist boys who) :llmm He vowed to each that reason of he would marry her, but, was prevent- | proper #and |ed from doing at once a ter. | to have fallen'§ rible illness. Deep sympathy was | movement expressed the confiding rendering | women and when John casually v gested that If the money to pa) | his expens: would forthcoming | 1o |he would go to the hospital Bach | st | &irl to ithe other and | riedly the First This plan s | tional ross lodges. 1n follo [ the coin was designed | Loving little Sophie Ote | John $58 of her h ritig and faithful Miss Mary gave $12, | e o the sum total of her fortune. After | Court il 1 tearful parting with each, John left Lk | for the hospital This was Mon VAT IS ) diy. orinnl 11 enegy e Instiig othel scope of men Samuel moveme that young showed each of the Sedenn ladies to one by ®0 by o young | asel sug- | boys had tor | tanglcd ' the lead I N oa aht ve Vel rood citizel 0 be unbeknown dug down bank and hur Na with into came a it be In close gave her noble cash | ¢ earned irt auth e would him and v 1¢port to a mag h sonal i tact de fearing " sl on This noon the girls com’p, and result the police ‘|lo locate John The \. of v som TOIL ALL NIGHT IN RUINS OF AVEZZANO | ived that the obtained by fo offering th the pouw Certain lodges broad plan, M Lr-reaching in wchy One and a N guide who oo plcture sh amusement following out U ing to reclaim who are under t What is con red notes as a are trying chance or 1 efore Rescuc Work Is Necessarily Slow Be- | | cause of Great Amount of Wreckage to be Removed. pose and intended London, m Jan. 15, 10 a Res cuers working by torchlight tolled all night amid the ruins of Avezzano, a Rome despatch from ' the Stefani Agency, but the work is neces- sarily slow because of the great amount of wreckage to be removed Firemen from Rome, who are en gaged in the work, are centering their | tentious plan i8] efforts about the girle’ school, in which | No, 944 in Ash many of the puplls are buried. They | boys vocational succeeded in recovering one living | This club meet child and one body. Flks' temple King Victor Emmanuel departed | on appropriate from Avezzano last night, but the | on "“Right Liv minister of public works, the under “Vocations' secretary of state and other officials | Tlemented by remain. guid A number of physicians have ar- | Amusements a rived and, with the help of the troops, | # healthful an they are organizing two hospitals and | are given, all a camp for survivors, boys. It is Tt will be weeks before | effect among th near an accurate death roll | munity has be tainable, | degree School Supe In another been asked and school superinti ber of the KElki a pin and a ) Chicago, Jan. 16.—Wheat broke the | Lrother can app war price high record again | for guldance ad Pirst sales of the May delivery ways as may b up to $1.43 6-8 a bushel, Positions have I cent above lust night's close and over- | and several havd topping by 1-4 cent the previous fig The local o ures, which were attained | there ure a uj day's excited advance | in this city w Liverpool quotations up | own fashion and to three cents had much with | the fresa upturn here, | boys wa | cotional anywhere is ob- WHEAT PRICE SOARS, War High Record Broken Again To- dny—Price Now $1.43 5-8 a Bushel, ‘ today shot nearly a | on yester two cents to do (Continued