Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-07-12

stroyed, and large. splendid edifces utterly dis
appeared under the mighty heaps of ruins
which covered them.
Among the mosques destroyed was one ancient
and celebrated, and the pride of the city, being
of elegant Grecian architecture, and having
stood for twelve hundred years Another whose
magnificent proportions and splendid workman
ship recalled the ancient grandeur and opulence
of the old Turkish, and had been erected six
hundred years, was greatly injured, but not de-
stroyed The Greek quarter, situated upon a
hill, was the most damaged-the houses falling
from above npon those below, and together
crushing the dwellings and their inmates.
In one case q silk steam factory fell upon the
owner, his two sons anu thirty female operatives,
hurying all in ito ruins To add TO the calam-
ity, fire broke out among the fallen buildings,
which spread further destruction of property
and life, but which was arrested after six hours
work of destruction. Travellers upon the land,
and passengers upon the sea, gazing at the terri
ble volume of fame, were unable ut distance
to determine whether it was conhagration or
q volcano.
During tbs night tho shocks were repeated
every half hour, but with diminishing violence,
and continued to be felt for five or six DAYS af-
ter, but slightly, and at unequal Intervals. The
streets blocked up by the ruins, the houses fall
len or rendered uninhabitabe, the people were
obliged to resort to the fields outside the walls
where they pitched their tents or pillowed their
heads under the canopy of heaven. Even the
: wooden buildings were so injured as not to be
r trusted by their owners. The whole number of
= those who pcrished was fully three hundred
q At the same time, intelligence was brought from
different parts of the province, that whole viii
9 lagos had been utterly destroyed, and fright
!. ful number of the Inhabitants being buried in
o. the ruins.
d Wednesday, April llth, was memorable
: day in the records Of that devoted city-no,
only repeating but exceeding the horrors of Feb
ruary 2Sth. At half past six o'clock in the
evening, violent shock was felt at CONSTANT
nople, which lasted fifteen seconds, and was fol
lowed by others during that ight and the night
following, and was felt at Smyrna at the SANE
time. A passenger who came from Ghemlek
= the port of Broussa, stated that the shock was
. so violent there, that though he was in wooden
- house, he desired to leave it, and was obliged
to stop on the stairs and hang on to them in or
. der to escape falling. But the shocks which
70 only frightened the people of Constantinople
.. and Smyrna, annihilated whatever remained of
Beginning abont eight o'clock in the evening
theyssere repeated with extraordinasy ssapidity,
. andcame with such violence that all the people
who happened to be in the streets or out cf
:. doors were thrown upon the ground. They con-
= tinued during the whole of the night, with less
u violence and also with less destruction, because
they had achieved all the ruin that was posi-
: ble Fifty minarets, before spared, were tum-
bled to the ground, and entire streets were so
blocked up with the debris of falling buildings
: as to make circulation impossible.
u resident of Broussa writes as follows to the
n Journal de Constantinople, under date of April
/ 10Th:
= "All the monuments, and all the structures
u of stone are overthrown and broken while the
greater part of the wooden buildings have hl-
10 len, and among those that remain few are in e
y habitable As in the first instance, five minutes
IL after the earthquake, a fire broke out in the
lower part Of the city, which lasted eighteen
y hours, and consumed fifteen hundred houses and
~ shops. For twenty-four hours the shocks were
:" repeated at small intervals, the greater part
D. weak, but some sufficiently violent to bring down
u the totteriug walls and houses which remained.
10 The news from the provinces is of the most dis
~ tressicg nature. In the southwest many vii
~ lagos have been entirely destroyed, or greatly
damaged
'r At once nearly the whole European popula-
" ton left the city of Constantinople, while the
70 natives encamped in the gardens and out of the
10 city in miserable barracks hastily constructed
no of the debris of fallen houses and the city was
re made a desert. But misfortune did not quit
OF them there, for violent shocks followed, which
er made the very tents tremble which sheltered
~ them. The mineral waters doubled their vol
ume, and warm water ran everywhere Through
ed the city.
les l should have stated in making out this OK.
in tended record of memorable and rare occur
renee, that the Island of Rhodes, at great dis
a. tance from Broussa, in the Southern Archipel
its ago, was visited by violent earthquake on the
in. 9TH of April; and Mytelene, in the Northern
m Archipelago, on the same day and hour with
Brousa. The shocks continued to be experience,
to at Broussa down to the last of April, and tn
MS. Inhabitants were prepared for more disasters.
The 1t will be seen that the area Of this earth
ck quake is of vast extent, embracing the norther
The and western parts of Asia Minor, the full lengt
IAN of the Archipelago from north to south, and
lar part of Europe. The frequency of the shocks
law and their long continuance, reaching from Fet
rem 18th to nearly the present time, if not further
ich are without precedent in the history of simla
of phenomena, and make the occurrence one of rar
,cd interest.
~ SINGULAR EPFECT OF LIGHTNING Per-
1ne land Advertiser, of late date states that th
Wy house of Capt. David Upton, of Great Chet
Of eaque Island, Me-, was struck by lightning n
gh Gently. A neighbor who was looking at MI
tn Upton's house atthe time, perceived q ball c
fire appareptlv foot in diameter with ira