THE EARTHQUAKES.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13806, 18 January 1909, Page 5

THE EARTHQUAKES.

. FRUITLESS WORK

RECOVERY OF TREASURE,

Press Association-By Telegraph-Copyright ROME, Jan. 15.

The-troops at Messina worked three days fruitlessly, where cries ior lielp were .heard", followed by silence. Three millions worth of property have been recovered, also Greek sculpture andpictures fronv the museum, •and duplicates of the civil register.

THE RELIEF FUND

LONDON, Jan. 15. The Mansion House fund amounts to £IOO,OOO.

NINETEEN DAYS' ENTOMBED.

THE HORROR OF THE STREETS

Received 4.30 p/m.* January 17th. - ROME, Jaai. 10.

The rescuers at Messina found under the ruins yesterday a boy nine years old, who, told them that his sisters, aged 20 and 12 years, were also alive. Both were forthwith extricated. All subsisted for nineteen days on onions,'.wine, oil, dried figs and water. Their mother had been crushed to deaththeir father, is in America. ... Many bodies are still lying unburied in the streets,' and the odour from them is terrible, though an immense quantity of disinfectants is arriving daily and being actively ; used. "