European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 09, 1964, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Am the runs of Lon Garone Church. Vaiount dam still stands though it i no longer used. Note damage done by wave of water on right lip. A Stark memorial has been fashioned. Most of the flood victims Are buried in this common cemetery at Fortugna three mites from Lon Garone. A Cape destruction. Marogna s House ated on the High North Side of town t to City Hall was damaged the nightlife disaster but he and his family ived and in the year that has wed he has made repairs. My children wore born Here. I run so away now. All my life is wrapped in this Tulloy. Nothing Moru ran pen. There can never be a disaster that  he Suid. Gesturing to d the Mountain protruding above the foot High dam. Delano Ciocci a bookkeeper in Cit does nut share mar Nina s longing Ive out his life in the Valley. Ills Norles arc Loo Billr. Ciocci was in Lena visiting an Uncle the night the Itter struck. He came Back the next to find his How along with his her father and two Brothers hed away. Banding by the Side of the Road where his Home used to be. Ciocci id the Concrete dam across the Dos of the Valley and said do not build Here. These arc bad Norles for me. 1 will a urk Here for Hole because this Valley was my u. But in the end i will make my it  s Home was one of 365 washed by the night the Waters rushed Over dam. He talked compulsively to fight k the  were two hotels in town the la and the Marina he said Point to a Small wooden sign which red the site of the Pola. A Bunc Dowers stood in a Liny vase next to Ign. Hen gesturing across the Valley to 1-9, 1964 Ward mount Salta rising 6,750 feel into a cloudless Blue sky Ciocci said on a Day like this it s difficult to pit lure the tragedy. It still seems like u bad  Amedeo de Valeric who operates a grocery in the Village of caste lava of a mile North of a on Garnoc will Liu ild anew House on High ground. My Home and the carib around it were washed away he said. But 1 was Lueky. 1 escaped. 1 was in a bar infant Village South of  when i heard the water in mini. The pressure of the water caused a great wind and As Licking . Seven of us got out of the bar and ran up the Hill in front of the wave of water. We just made ii. Only my feet got wet. When ii was Over. I Luo cd Back toward the bar. And there was nothing there but Slimy mini. It had been washed away.  More than .100 died in the Village of Virago Only a Church Steeple remains in this Village South of a ongar unc even the tombstones in the cemetery on the lower ground below the Church were smashed by the flood. Only nine sur Vived put persons from Virago who were working in France and Germany and other parts of Italy have come Back. And they will build new Homes. They know that they belong in this Valley. Along the Road where the Ciocci Home once stood the picture of a Young Cou ple who operated a Flower shop has been mounted behind Glass in a wooden memorial. A bouquet of Flowers stands next to the  the level ground in the Middle of , where soldiers picked through Muddy debris a year ago. Two Bells from the Belfry of the town s demolished Church have been placed on the site chosen for a new Church. Thereof the five Bells in the Church Tower were lost in the raging water along with 300 bodies which have never been round. Signs in the Middle of town in italian and German request visitors to refrain from picnicking. We had to erect the  Floc i said. Very weekend the people come to  All Over Italy fro mall Over Europe. Some tourists fail to show the respect they should show for the people win died  while Lincci talked a column of school children passed by the Hells. 1 Ink Ciocci a number of  residents escaped the disaster. Some who had been unable to find work in the Hieak Valley found employment in for eign countries others took temporary residence with friends or relatives on High land when they Learned the massive piece of Mountain was sliding slowly to Ward the Reservoir. Engineers had be gun to Drain the Reservoir just Days before the disaster. A Fuci lion of tile Rem Oreed ill which forms the top of the dam was sheared off by Hie Avawam he of water am Moun Tain debris tint the main Section of the Arch Type dam remains intact. In Backof the dam the threat mount Ain of Earth and Rock a Mains. A Road Nili in in year since the disaster winds through the Hills and boulders where the Reser voir used to he. The massive slide literally rumbled Down from 6.33r foot High mount toe. The great Bald face of toe shows the origin of the Avalanche which implied into the Reservoir. The slide caused a Dis Aster of epic proportions but it was not the first tragedy in the Valley of thei have. Thousands died in fighting be tween tile austrians and the. Italians instills Valley of death during world War i. Hut the heaviest fighting raged North . In the Campaign of 1017. The ails trials crossed the i have. Only to lie hurled Hack by Ilii Gacil italians defend ing their . Italy alone lost  men in Hie hitter fighting along the Piave. Since world War ii thousands of tourists Carmile com Northern kill rape to the Adriatic passed through  one. In Thi Wake of the disaster millions of dollars have been collected by individuals Relief us envies and newspapers to help the families of the Affek cd and to construct a new  of the disaster have been buried in a cemetery in the Village of of Rungna three Miles South of Lyngar one. Hows of White crosses Mark the Graves. Flowers have in in placed Nearine crosses. Damaged buildings in the High North Section of in Angarone have been re paired. A Temi Hilary Church has been built lust below City  workers unloaded building blocks from a  old Man. Silting on a Iwilder High alive the town looked Down on the Busy scene. Carpenters pounded away on anew school in front of him. Bouncing trucks stirred up Clouds of Chalky dust. Then he turned his head to the Valley beyond the Railroad and As he stared out  in 1 ii or i the stars and stripes Page 13