Works is diverting relief measures on the spot and has established his headquarters at the railway station at Roceetta Veneri.
The damage done in Naples itself was comparatively light and only thirteen deaths have been Reported.
Magnificent work is credited to the soldiers. of the so-calle ciplinary" stationed at Melfi as a penalty for misdemeanours, They turned out from their barracks and wondered succour to. the injured with such valour that. their com. mander is recommending the King to grant them a free pardon—Router, Rome, July 24. the official figures pub-forenoon, saying that 1,800 were killed and 4,200 while 3,100 houses ly destroyed, are reports, and the which certainly will have to be revised again, place the death roll at roughly 5,000. Even now it is impossible to probe to its full extent this disaster which must mean a serious economic setback for Italy and may also for years affect her position in inter-like Same with 20,- ints, Avellino with but.
ind "minor villages like San Cellario and Silano hi ye not been heard from at all as they are completely isolated. Pictures taken from aeroplanes however denote complete chaos all over this district with the pro-ability that a large percentage of the inhabitants were wiped out. Military, and civilian reserve parties are working feverishly with superhuman efforts to extricate the dead from the shambles and to bury them in' order to prevent the outbreak of disease in the prevailing oppressive heat-—Teans-Ocean Kuo Avellino, July 25.
Te is now reported that 2,572 people have been killed and 1,315
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