1930. LAST EDITION Official Reports Show Eighteen Hundred Dead In Italian Earthquakes Toll Increasing Steadily as New Information Comes From Stricken Areas, Telling of Victims Being Dug Out From Ruins Mussolina Will Call Cabinet Into Sessions to Consider Emergency Steps. NAPLES, July 24. (AP) Government officials this afternoon expressed the fear that the earthquake death list, officially given out at noon as 1,778 might be far exceeded as the count progressed. Unofficial reports said 3,025 bodies had been taken from the ruins throughout the devastated territory. ROME, July 24. (AP) Reports tabulated by government officials this morning showed that the terrific earthquakes of Tuesday in southern Italy took 1,778 lives and injured 4,264. The toll, meanwhile, was growing hourly as fresh reports were received from the stricken regions of bodies being recovered from the ruins of crubpled buildings. Undersecretary of State Leoni made public the list of tabulated dead and injured as follows: Province Dead Injured Avelinno 1392 2072 Benevento 24 87 Foggia 120 1557 Potenza 232 535 Naples 8 13 Salerno 2 11 totals 1778 4204 Houses destroyed were placed at 3188. With 2757 others damaged. Thirty towns in Avelinno were ruined, 21 in Benevento, 13 in Foggia and 19 in Potenza, making a total of 83 towns for which figures had been compiled. There were a few scattered deaths on the rim of the intense quake zone, in addition to those contained in the report. HARD EFFORT MADE The ministry of the interior which gave out the figures had great difficulty in obtaining them from provincial prefects, who were unwilling to give out even approximate totals and appeared greatly incensed at what they considered exaggerated reports published abroad. The officials, however, worked hard to prepare a tabulation, partly to allay by correct figures the fears of 10,000,000 Italians in North and South America, many of whom have relatives in the shaken areas. Among the damaged buildings is the royal palace at Casesta. All flags were ordered at half mast in Naples and vicinity today and the example is likely to be followed all over the country. Premier Mussolini intends to call a council of ministers into session soon to take emergency measures. ROME FRIGHTENED Romans had a scare this morning when unusually strong gusts of wind rattled windows and slammed doors. Thinking it was Romes turn for a quake, some persons started out of their houses only to perceive that they were safe after all. The two Roman morning newspapers, apparently by agreement or order, printed no figures or even estimates of the dead and injured, nor did they estimate the extent of property damage. Both carried considerable matter of other details of the quake, however. Woman Down NAPLES STRUCK BY HURRICANE, CREATING NEW PUBLIC FRIGHT Many Remain In Parks During Storm, Afraid To Return Home RUINS UNDER GUARD Pathetic Sight Occurs At Wrecked Orphan Asylum NAPELS, July 24 (AP) A hurricane which at times kicked up what resembled a tidal wave struck Naples this morning just after most Nepolitans, shaken by Tuesdays earthquake, were convinced their scares were over for the present. One large wave pounded over the embankment into the road along the sea. At the same time the strong wind blew down trees and fragile summer cottages along the coast. The residents were still nervous over the earthquake and were badly frightened by the newest outburst of nature. Many of them had spent a restless night in the parks and public squares, afraid to return to their homes because of the possibility of new quacks. Fishing smacks with their colorful sails had to point their noses hastily northward in order to escape damage. The storm subsided as quickly as it arrived and a dreary drizzle set in. WAR-TIME APPEARANCE Naples today had the appearance of a city under a war-time regime, with soldiers guarding the damaged buildings to ward off the curious and flags flying everywhere at half mast. An impressive funeral was held for the four persons who died in Naples as a result of the quake and in commemoration of the two who were killed at Salerno and one at Triani. Cardinal Ascalesi, archbishop of Naples, at the conclusion of the services, brought a silver bust of St. Gennaro, the citys patron, to the steps of the cathedral and blessed the great crowd which had assembled to mourn for the victims. The volcano of Pozzuloa, a smoky mountain obscured by the fame of its mighty neighbor Vesuvius, was in eruption today. Seismologists say it was kicked into action by yesterdays earthquakes. SPECTATORS WEEP The duchess of Aosta, who yesterday visited the wounded in the hospitals of Naples and did much to calm the people of the city, went today into the stricken interior. She was greatly moved, at Ariano, at sight of the orphan asylum which caved in and killed scores of little children. Hundreds of onlookers wept when the duchess knelt and placed an ivory crucifix which she wore on the body of a little girl half buried in the debris. DRINKS APLENTY