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he Omaha Daily Drawn For The Dee THE WEATHER. Fair; Warmer ae-wsr-eper artist of the eovatr nolribat their bst wang ror bn readers. VOI XUV XO. 1M. OMAHA, FRIDAY MOKXINV,, .TAXUAUV 15, 1015 TWELVE I'AOIX Oa Trains and at Hotel Haws Stand, Re SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS. T: Bee SENATORS TRAPPED BY HOUSE MEMBERS OYER WAGES OF HELP Same Bill Provides Pay for Mem ber and Workers, and Home Refuses to. Concur in Senate Employe Plan. BIO CHIEFS MAY RETRENCH If They Wish to Draw Any Pay They May Have to Cut List of Em ployes on Pay Roll. . HOUSE SAYS WILL STAND PAT (From1 a Staff Correspondent.! LINCOLN, Jan. 14. (Special.) A direct Issue between the Nebraska houye and senate over the question of employes will he raised whrn the former branch send over to the latter the appropriation bill for legislative salaries and expenses. The salary bill wlllhc so drawn that the house and senate will have MO.WX) apiece for employes' salaries, and no more. . An the senate has practically twice as many employes , on Its payroll as the house, notwithstanding the house has three times as many members, this ' amount may not be sufficient to pay all tha people working In the sena,te. It will therefore be up to the senate to cut down Its list of employes or 'amend the house bill so a to Increase Its own appropria tion. Honne Mar Not Coaear. Should tha senate try to raise the 110.000 limit for paying Its help, the house will undoubtedly refuse to concur. . -Chairman Taylor of tha house commit tee on employes and Chslrman Norton of the house committee on finance, ways and means have agreed that the salary bill shall be divided Into the following items: Salaries. and mileage of members, $S4,000; house employes, $10,000; senate em ploye $10,000; toUl. 5104,000. Senators In 'Trap. Inasmuch as the salary appropriation for employes will be carried In the same bill as that for the members, the senate cannot deadlock the situation without holding up the salaries of Its own mem bers. The bill appropriating money for the Incidental expenses of tho legislature will provide lump sum of $20,000. It ti rumored the senate will try to use some of this money for paying its employes, un less the house strictly limits the expendi ture.. Penny i.a'rge to Son. Some of the- members of the house have got the economy bug so strong that a penny looks, as big as a double eagle, and any attempt to saddle upon that body anything except what Is tagged "economy" gets a solar plexus blow tight away. The, house- method of practicing econ omy. ..however, has been discovered. Members -of tUs house who can't get their work, done because there la not enough help to d Mr have, been working the senate employes and this morning some of the senators discovered .that fact. ' Immediately the order was given that senate employe do their own work and let the house members do theirs or hire enough help to have It done. "The house can't tut anything of that kind over on us," said, one of the sen ators today- Loan Shark Bill Started on Its Way In Lower House rrrsm a Staff 'Correspondent.) . ' LINCOLN. Jan. 14. (Special.) If a bill introduced by Representative Lundrgen of Douglas county becomes a law, it win oe unlawful to charge more than 1H per cent per month on chattel loans and will re quire dealers In that kind of business to take out a license, paying a fee to' the secretary of state of $100. The bill la intended to take the place of the one Introduced at the last sees Ion by Representative Simon ot Douglas and which brought out one of the bitter fights In the house at that time. ' Th Lundgren bill provides for the ap pointment of inspectors by the secretary ef atat In each county, whose duties will, be to see that ine law is eniorceo. ujon agent must file bond with the secretary of state In tha amount of So.O). ' The Weather Forecast till 1 p. m., Friday: For Omaha. CouncU Bluffs and Vlclnltr Fair; not much change In temperature Traaeravtere at Oiuis Yesterday. Hours. Deff. S a. m 32 a. m XI T a. m 30 S a. m 30 a. m SI 19 a, ni 33 11 a. m 12 in ...V S 1 p. m. S p. m. 3 p. m. 4 p. in. 5 p. m. p. in. T p. m. S p. m. ratlre Iaal Reeorg. Jiighest yesterdsy....... 4i ' i7 35 j Jjowest yesterday 37 t Mean temperature HI - 20 Precipitation W .00 .W 1 Temperature and Precipitation dpar tures from the normal : nornuu lemperHiure ...... 17 701 .! Inch . Inch SAM inches r.xcess I'jr me day Total excess since March 1 Normal preciuiuulun Deficiency for the Uy TUal rainfall since March l' lMflctency since March 1. ' i 67 inches lTn ' . COT- Vn- 1S. i.l Inches Deficiency for cor. period. MI. 4,(0 inches )toerts from Stetloas j a, a( station and Elate Temn. Hirh- of Weather. 7 p. m CJieyenne, clear.... est fall J 34 44 3s ; 44 4l il 44 45 M 31 .00 Davenport, clear Ienver. part cloudy. Hes Molnea, clear North Plte. clear.. una ha, clear Rapid City, cloudy... fchertdan. cloudy Sioux City, clear Valentine, clear .. 44 .. St . '. i"; 42 T lndl-ate trace of i.r... ii.n.i,. indicates below aero. U WtLtll, Local Forecaster. WHERE WINTER "P1"; 'S FIERCE French sharpshooters ' um ere the French have been advancing LI ..iJuvv-vrraine. t -.: i - , v .... . . ". :. - - -- f V , - 1 " ' - . '" "' - - . . - ;v J ) ' " Vv. w mk - i f . , .1 i f t V ' 1 : J ., - 'f I f - j ; J& tf ."' "-.' OMAHA GRAIN MART MAKES NEW RECORD Local Concerns Sell Carload Lots of Wheat at Prices Never Before Realized on Exchange. NUMBER TWO DURUM AT Sli48 The Omaha Grain exchange marked up two new records on , wheat when 'the Merrlam Commission company ' cold one car of Kq, S Nebraska hard to the. v'pdlke Elevator company at $1.34 and one. cat of No'. J 'dunlin" tothe'TaioV"Qrath"corh nany at .. .On So. I hard 11.3 .was the former high price and on durum $1.46. The Omaha market opened more bullish than at any time since the present ad vance In grain started. Minneapolis mill ers' representatives wcro on hand ready to pay a premium of UWt cents on any of the Nebraska hard wjicst that looked good to them. New York representatives of foreign buyers were clamoring for the durum for export, and as a reault the prices on both cereals, shot up a couple of cents Inside of the first hour. The advance here In a measure fol lowed that In Chicago,, where the price on No. 2 hard wheat went to $i.43H.'the highest since 1897, whea Loiter attempted I to corner the crop of the United States. I Private . reports to the Omaha Grain J exchange were to the " effect - that the surplus accumulation m jnew iom ana Baltimore had been cleared for export and that facilities along the gulf were to handle any quantity ot grain offered. Corn was nearly as- bullish . aa. wheat, the advance' here being Si(t of a cent, the bulk of the aales being made- at around SMihTH cents per bushel. Oats gained one-half cent, aales teing from 50 up to 61 U cents. . Omaha receipts yesterday were: Wheat, IS; corn, 02, and oats, 19 cars, Chicago being the only one of the grain markets havlna- anywhere this olisntitv of mln in sight l:sorirra Gnk sprlnaT Wheat, CHICAGO, Jan. 14Grabblng up of spring wheat by exporters swept' the wheat market today to a new high record war level o prices. May wheat easily reached $l.3fl a bushel, thus surpasalng the former tintan ntinlatlnn II I1L which I whs reached January 8, before the bulls had been Intimidated by rumors that the Dardanelles would quickly he forced and that an attack by Italy on Turkey would hasten the end of the war. Today'a advance was accompanied by reports that the Pacific eoast was out bidding Minneapolis for wheat in North Iekoia and that the Pacific coast crop of 1IH4 had been entirely disposed of. The upturn which broke the record here, how ever, waa not accomplished until after there had been heavy profit taking aales by dealers whose motton appeared to be "aafety first.." Before business oame to an end May wheat ran up to fl.43H. A rush of profit taking, however, led to sudden reaction, and the market closed unsettled at $1 42 tf 1.4?T. July option finished at yester dsy's figures, $1.2u7,t. Kye sold at $1.17 bushel, the highest price since the American civil war. MEMBERS MUST TAKE PART OF CLERKS OF COMMITTEE 1 From a Staff Correspondent.) LIS'COLN. Jan. 14--(fipeciaU)-On ac count ef the cutting off of many com mittee rlerkrhlpa In the bouse It has been necessary - for some of the committees which have In previous sessions bad a clerk to provide one for themselves and the oumnilttee on roads' yesterday aeleoted jgf 1 Representative Dalby of Gag county to act as clerk to the- committee.. Mr. talby is president of the Nebraska Good Roads assoclstlon and one of tha eathuslaatlc good roads men of the house. He probably will Introduce several Mils along lines which will tend to bring about a better roads aondlUea. PARIS ADMITS LOSS ON SOISSONS LINE War Office Says Allies Held Center, but Were Compelled to Yield - on the Right. BELGIANS BLOW UP AMMUNITION . PAKIS. ' Jan. 14.-The French official statement on the progress ot 1 the war given out this afternoon show the j'ight bigesterday aorta f-Solasona waa-moat determined. Vhe i'rench could make' no material- progress - on the left of- their Soissons .line. They held their positions on the center and were compelled to yield on their right. The French troops are described also as taking up posi tions on the south bank of the river Aisne. . Spirited artillery exchanges continued yesterday at other points on the battle front ' The text of the communication follows: . "In Belgium the 'firing of our artillery was Interfered with by the fog; never theless the cannonading yesterdsy was spirited In the vicinity of Nleuport and around Tpres. Certain detachments of Belgian troops blew up at a point to the southeast of Stuyvekneskerke the build ings on a farm 'which-were serving the enemy as a depot for hla ammunition. "Between the Lya and the Olse, In the region of " Lns, our artillery was suc cessful in dispersing a group of Oorman pioneers on the outskirts of the hamlet of Angrea, and It bombarded effectively the German- trenches - to -the southeast or the .chapel of Notre Dame de Lorette. Yield O roe ad Krw Vrrgay. . "To the north, of Soissons there was determined fighting all day yesterday. The engagement was localised to a sec. tlon of ground, to . the north of Couy. We hold only the first slopes of these hills. On our left In this field our coun ter attack made slight progress, but with out succeeding In recording a material advance. "The continued flood stage of the River Aisne haa carried away several of the regular bridges as well as some of the temporary foot bridges which we threw arross the river. The lines of com munication for our troops were conse quently mode uncertain. I'nder these con ditions we established ourselves on tha south bank of the river In the region be tween Crouy and Missy, with bridgeheads on the north bank In our possession. "Along the remainder of the front on the River Aisne there waa yesterday nothing more tlian artillery exchanges. - Maay Loral Kagasemeats. - "The region of Perthes continued to be the scene of local engagements for the Possession of German trenches on the second and third lines of defense. To the north of Iteausejour we blew up some of., the . enemy's . positions to . make Im possible. hl.i laying of mines. The Ger mans, believing they were being attacked, manned their trem-hes. We then opened a violent artillery and infantry fire on these positions. "Tnere Is nothing to report on the rest of the front." , Not at All Desirous ' Of Recording Votes; . Taken in Committee (From a Staff Correspondent.) LINCOLN. Neb.. Jan. 14. I Special.) The "on ag in, off ag in, gone agin" policy, which haa prevailed so - of vn in the efforts of the house to carry out its reform policies, waa in evidence When Taylor of Custer moved, thai th rule adopted that the committee report on bills should show how esch member voted In committee should be dispensed with except where two members ask for a roll call. The motion went through, end another progressive - act haa been practical If nullified. VON KLUCK TAKES CHARGE OF FIGHT FOR SPUR NO. 132 German Commander is Personally Directing- Assault on Position Held by the Allied Forces Near Soissons. TURKS ARE INVADING PERSIA Kurds. Which Compose the Ad vance Guard, Probably Taking Vengeance on Armenians. BATTIE IN CAUCASUS UNDECIDED The Day's War News In Condensed Form KMPKnOR WILLIAM U dlreetlnar a violent attnek on the French line tolthln n two-nonr ntotor-rltle of Paris. The l.rrnmni nnrfYf- the ejes of their rnler won n 1m orlant victory In the Mithtla llll force. n East Prassla have been driven bark, the Berlin war office states, hat ee Kwlu mlTkBrlni toward the Trnsalan frontier from the MliwK region have raptnred aeveral towna. tiFHMAS in central Poland have ninde foor violent attacks within forty-elaht hoars. They oe crrded In drlvlnar bark the Ros alnna and winning; considerable round. It(l force In northern Persia nnarenlly offered no resistance to (he Turkish advance. Small forces of Persians defended their eonntry from InTitlon, bat with no iceeii. LONDON, Jan. 14 Like the stub bornly contested battle In the early tiays of the war on which hinged the 'German occupation of West Flan ders,, the struggle for the knoll of ground northeast of Soiasong known as "spur 132" atlll remained unde cided today, according to informa tion received in London. The Ger mans, however, by their counter at tacks, appear to be in the better po sition to the eastward of the spur. In view of the relatively small amount of ground gained the 1obsobv have been heavy on both si dee, but the Germans show no signs of giv ing up their attempts to retake the hill. In fact, it Is ald that General von Kluck. himself Is now in com mand of the German forces, which would seem to lift the battle out of the ordinary rtia of conflict along the western battlefront. Further east, near Perthes, where another sharp fight is still in prog ress, the situation hag not changed materially, Judging from dispatches received here. Tarka Hold Center 4a Kast. In the eastern theater of the war, in the absence of any radical developments In Poland and Gallcla. the Turkish oper ations hold the foreground of interest with Oie much-heralded, but equally doubted reports of a Turkish advance Into Egypt that Is said to be virtually ready, and with the occupation by Tur key of Tabrla In the Russian sphere of influence In Persia. This city of &,000 population, appar ently waa taken without fighting. In view of the fact tliat the small Russian (Continued on Page Four, Column Vive.) Mex Convention May "Name Successor to President Gutierrez WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.-Doubt as to whether General Outlerres had been con tinued by the convention at Mexico City as provisional president existed today at the Htate department. A telegram from Mexico City announced that the chair man of the convention late Tuesday night gave out a notice "that the convention had concluded It would continue Presi dent Gutierrez In office," but for some unknown reason the notice was recalled The Carrunxa agency here today Issued the following statement: . ' "General Carranxa, from Vfra Cms, denies that Tampico Is threatened, by t Villa force and ssys that the officers of the gunboat Guerrero, reported deserting to Outlerres forces, are still loyal. Gen eral Pablo Goutalcs took Villes, on the outskirts of Han Luis Potosl." The Kanlnh anibasa'lor, Benor Riano, made representations personally to Sec retary Bryan today In behalf of Hpanlsh subjects, who he advised have been mis treated, and Spanish Interests damaged at Pueblo, Mexico, ills complaint waa Iasel on Information fism the Spanish '.ministers in Mexico City. Boosters to Coast CHICAGO, Jsn. 14 -Chicago will send a "business crusade" to the Pacific coast In July, it wss announced today, when the First Infantry, Illinois National Guaid. with band and field mtialc, will tour from Spokane to Kan Francisco and flan Llego. accompanied by representa tivea of the' Chicago Association of Com merce. The regiment will leave Chicago on July 1. on the trip, which will last seventeen days. The principal .cities on Hie coast will be visited. COMPKTKNT man for position aa scale repair man; must be abls lo take full charge of seals reoalr dept.; stkte previous employment and ex perience, giving address and phone number. For farther Information a boat . this ovvortulty see the Mr eat d section ef teday'a Bee. Earth Appeared tot Open and Emit Columns of White Smoke ROME. Jan. 14. A young Italian driver who le't Avenano a few mlnutea before the earthquake gave a brief account of his exnerlonoee when he reached Rome at an early hour this morning. HH first Intimation ot trouble was when the hores of his carriage sud denly refused to go farther. They stood trembling, and at the same moment there rame a deep rumbling like the roar of n railroad train going over a brhlge. Three minutes later the standing walla of some quarries along the road had crumbled and were lying In dust covered heaps. Krrun Avessano there rame the cries of tha frightened people. Amid the roar of falling houses could be heard the voices of women calling on the saints to help them. The city lit under a cloud of GERMANS CAPTURE I PLAIN 0F YREGNY Heights First Taken by Storm, Then Trench After Trench Captured at Point of Bayonet FRENCH DESTROYING WESTENDE I 1 BERLIN. Jan. 14. (By Wlreles lo I.011 don.) Emperor William was present In person during the spirited battle on the Vregny plain, to the northeast of Pols sons, which resulted yesterday In that elevated ground being cleared of the French and which la described In the German official statement given out this afternoon as "a brilliant feat for our troops." In this engsgement the Ger msns claimed to have raptured fourteen French officers and l.lfio men. The text of the communication rea!s: "In the western theater ot the war in the dunea near Nleuport and southwest of Tpres artillery combats are going on. The enemy directed an extremely strong fire on Weslende, which they soon will 1 have entirely destroyed. Their torpedo beats disappeared quickly as soon as they received our fire. "In continuation or their activities on January 8 northeast of Holssons our troops again made an attack on the heights of Vregny and cleared this ele vated plain of the enemy. In a pouring rain and deeply sodden clay, trench after trencn waa taken by storm until after dark aiuf the enemy was driven back to the border of the elevated plain. Four teen French officers and 1,130 men were taken prisoners, and four cannon, four machine guns and a searchlight were captured a' brilliant feat for our troops under the very eyes of their uppermost war y lords. , "Northeast of the Camp of Chalons the French attacked again yesterday In the morning and afternoon with strong forces to the east of Perthes. They pen etrated at certain places our trenches, but were repulsed by energetic counter attacks and driven back with heavy losses Into their own positions, leaving Its) pris oners lp our hands.- "In the Argonna and the Vosges nothing of importance haa occurred. "The situation In northern 'Poland Is the aame. "Our attacks west of the Vistula art being continued. Nothing of Importance has ocourred on the eastern baak ot the PiUoa." Persian Horsemen HoldingBridge Are All Slain , but Four PETROGRAD, Jan. U-TVIa London) The correspondent of the Bourse Gaaette at Tlflla sends a. statement made to him by Bhodja Kd Oachuluh, the former gov ernor of the province of Aserbljan, Per sia, who haa arrived at Tlflla. He Is ons ot four survivors of a guard of 400 horse men whd defended the bridge at the en trance of Miandoab, . "tha gateway of Persia." He fought tha Turks ' for ten hours, enabling refugees to escape to Maragh, fifty miles south of Tabrls. All Christians who remained In Miandoab, he states, were massacred. "When I heard that the Turks were ad vancing," he said, "I posted 1,600 troops In one of the Miandoab forts and 1,200 In another. I myself with 4ue relatives and friends fought a hopeless battle at the bridge until ail but four were killed by the Turks' quick flrera. I then fled on horseback from Tabrls to Jul fa. "All the members of the consulatsa and oanka escaped from Tabrls." West Virginia Liquor . Shipping Law Valid RICHMOND, - W. Va., Jan. 14 West Virginia laws prohibiting shipment . of liquor Into the state were held valid by the United States circuit court of ap peals here today. The decision asserted that unless a con signee could show conclusively thnt he ordered liquor for personal use without advertisement on the part of consignor or without other solocltstlon, ' common carriers might be "restrained from making deliveries In the state. The decision was on the state's appeal from an adverse . decision of the lower courts In the case ot a Cincinnati whole sale liquor firm and ail express company. iRorne Again Feels - Earthquake Shocks HOME, Jsn. U -Several earthquakes occurred during the fore part of the day. They caused lite collapse of some build ings already aeverely damaged, resulting In the Injury of a number of persons en gaged in rescue work In various towns. These shocks were not violent, but they Increased the alarm of the people and made more difficult the work of rescue. Cowley founder lles. LONDON. Jan. 14.-Ilev. Richard Meux Ht-nson. founder an 1 fimt superior of the Hociety of Kt. John the KvHUgcllst, commonly tailed the Cowley I'atlini'Kf died tolay at Oxford. He v.us Hit su thor of a number ot books uu religious subjects. r mist. To the driver It looked as If the earth dad opened to emit columns of white smoke. Thl- young man tried to drive back to Avetssno. but he could make no head way, lie and his horea wcro blinded by the dut. Soon he eaw survivors strug gling to mnbTtleir way from the city. Miinv had reeelve.l In.lurles and were dragxlng themselves through the dust and ronftiHlon In pitiable pliKhL Some were so weak that they fell by the road side. The objective of the refugees as the railroad station, which was. soon crowded with half frantic men. women and children. Before the driver left the vicinity, organised efforts were being made to carry the most severely wounded to nearby heapltals. , NEW QUAKE KILLS ' HUNDREDS MORE Another Shock Occus at Sora, Sixty Miles Northeast of Rome, on Day Following First One. NEARLY 400 PERSONS ARE DEAD ItOMK. Jan. 14-At Pore, sixty miles northesst of Rome, In the province of Casorta. another shock ocenred todsy. The residents, panic stricken, fled from their homes. The town, which has a population of 110,000, was almost de stroyed. About two-thirds of the houses collapsed under the shock and others, which were cracked, tumbleddown later. Rossi Palace fell In, hurylng twenty la borers who were working In the court yards. Among the victims In Bora are many of the town authorities and per sons of note In the district. It Is feared the fatalities a III aggregate almost 4o& Many soldiers have arrived In the town. Four Thousand Are Buried Alive Under Ruins of Avezzano IONDON. Jan. 14.-The experiences of a paasenger on a 4raln which was thrown from the track by the earthquake are related In a dispatch' from Rome to the Central News: "Our train was near Lake Fuelnl when the earthquake occurred," he said. "There was one shock of great vlo enoe, followed by three others. The train was thrown off the rails and many of the passengers were Injured. "I climbed nut of the train and gased around on the lake and the surround ing mountains. Where there had been towns t could merely see enormous whirl winds of dust and smoke. Apparently the towns existed no longer." Tha dispatch adds that almost all the way to Ttvoll Dtilldlngs along the rail way were In ruins. Troops sent from Rome were sb to ' rescue "hundreds ot persons at many points, but cries tor help were heard from beneath ruined buildings In a large number of inatances In which It was Impossible to effect a speedy release of the 'victims. It Is estimated .that 4,000 persona were burled alive under . the wreckage at Avessano. Throughout the night shouts for help could be heard. In one Instance a school building collapsed, burying 200 children, many of whom ere. atlll alive. It Is stated that 400 soldiers were In the barracks at Avessano whan it co -Ispsed and that only four of them es caped. Avalanches in Alps Caused by the Quake OK NEVA, Swltxerland, Jan. 14. (Via Parts.) Earth shocks were felt In the Ment Blanco mountain range and'also In the Bwias and Italian Alps along the fron tier yesterday morning. They caused huge avalanches, whloh Isolated the Al pine villages and hamlets snd destroyed the forests. From five to seven feet of snow fell on tho Bernlnii, Hplugen and 8t. Gotthard passes, while the snow Is three feet deep hi the F.ngadlng. Bhocka -were also experienced In the Plelniont towns and villages, but ..the damage cannot be learned as .the tele graph wires are down. Kllgtiter shocks were felt even In theTyrolese Alps. Describes Avazzano As Huge Cemetery , LONDON, Jan. ll.-The Centrals News publishes a dispatch from Rome giving the recital of an Avessano refugee. "I can best describe Avessano by call ing it an. Immenee cemetery," this man said. , "From the ruins of the College for Young Women we heard a frantic appeal for help: There are 140 of us still alive here. Help us quickly.' Soldiers snd civilians rushed to tha scene,' and wheu I left were doing their best to cut a way through ths mass of ruins. "I believe that twenty other towns suf fered severely. . These IncTude Celano, with 30,000 Inhabitants." Italian King Sees The, Work of Rescue AVEZZANO. Italy, Jan. ,14.-(Ma In don.) King Victor Emmanuel arrived here this afternoon. He inspected the ruins and watched the work of rescue which ia being carried on by the troops with the asilstance of civilians. The persona most seriously wounded are being attended here. The other are sent to Rome. AMERICAN RED CROSS MONEY TO QUAKE VICTIMS WASHINGTON, Jan. I4.-Th American Red Cross announced today that It would be, glad to receive at its headquarters here contribution f,,r the Italian earth quake surfererx aod would forward such money through the Ptste department to the proper officials tn Italy. QUAKE. ECLIPSES MESSINA HORROR; 50,000VICTIHS Appalling Loss of Life and Property Caused by Seismic Shock Which Covers a Large Area in Italy. ROME AND NAPLES ARE SHAKEN Hundreds Probably Killed and In jured in Villages Not Yet Heard From. PREMIER DIRECTS RELIEF WORK LONDON. Jan. 14. A news dis patch received here from Koaie says that tho member of the Chamber cf Deputies for I.ipari has telegraphed to the Capita', that the disaster of yesterday surpasses the Melna ca tastrophe; the ruin, la more wide spread and the injury to life and limb will be greater.' An . employe of the municipality of Avessano, one of the few survivors of the city, says tho dead Include the sub prefect and the members of his family, the whole staff of the prefecture, tha stsff of the law courts, the mayor and all the members of the municipal coun cil. Ninety-five out of the one hundred soldiers who comprised the local gnrrlsnn lost their lives, an did four out of the seven customs officials and eight out ot the nine policemen. The man was on the street when the shock came. To him . It seemed as if everything fell to pieces at once. An im mense cloud of dust arose from the ruins and completely veiled the sky. The few survivors of Avessano assembled In Tor Ionia square. Suffering from shock, if not from actual wounds, they were not capable of helping the wounded burled In the ruins. Avessana Completely Destroyed. ROMH. Jan. 14. CWa tvmdnn Th destruction of the town ot Avcsiatte, a community of aome 12,000 people ' in Aqulla province, by the earthquake yes terday la virtually complete, There Is good authority for the statement that not more than 10 per cent of the population survived the dlsaater. The streets of the city are huge piles of stone and brick. Through this the rescuers dig, for sur vivors. The towns of Barhtollno, Paterno, Cen chlo, Collarmele, Pesnlna and Ran Bcne detta also are, in large measure, de stroyed. At flora. In the province of Caserts, a town of over 6,000 population, the victims ere estimated at 40. Two-thirds of the houses la the town have been rased, while many of the others are damaged ruined. Twenty workmen are buried In the wreckage. Report a reaching Rome today of the casualtlea counted last night aet forth that at flassa five persons were killed and forty wounded. At Popoll two per sons were killed. At Ant rose no there are seven dead and thirty wounded, while at Cocullo there are nine dead. Twenty per sons lost their lives at Torre, ten at Flc-enae and sis at Butat. - Many Tonne Destroyed. The towns of Avessano, Appelie. Mag. llano. Marsa, Massgdalbe, Collarmele, Cer chlo, Celano, 1111, Paterno, San Fellno, Gelosamarsl, Bcurla. Caplstrello, . Antro aana and Caetronovme hav been prac tically destroyed. Pasclnl, Ortonamarsl, Ban Benedetto, Ol't'tcchlo. Cooulln. Rlaeona ' nul.i'. CanlKtro, Clvltelladintlno. Castellatiuml, Pagllota Caatell. Pagllotra and Horbo re ceived serious damage. TamllMcosxo. Ovludllo, Csppadoecla, Bnntl Marie, Pogldo. Flllppo, Han Itonato, Ban Btefano, Rocacerro, Caraoll, Perao luco and Traaaceo were all mere or less damaged. Every one of theie towns shown a casualty list. Every train arriving from tha Aurtnni brlnga hundred of persons who have beep wounded. The refugees are received at the station by represents t Ives of the munloipal authorities and distributed among hospitals and private houses. Every hospital in Rome was filled to lis utmost cspaclty early in the day. Prince Colonna, the mayor of Rome, placed at the disposal of the refugeee severs) hotels, where food and lodging (Cont Inued on Page Four, Column Two.) "Ltt the sua rent your rooms," ' If tli ey are pleasant rooms and ' get plenty of sunshine in tho daytime, advertise them in The Bee's "Sunshiny loom's" classification. You will get a quick resrxjKo for The Bee has aroused a great deal o'f interest in the desirability of sunlit rooms. Rates are 1c per word a day if the ad runs one week. Phone Tyler 1000 THE OMAHA BEE "vroa RtaJt Bmm Want Adi"