Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-08-29

injured some l 200 others-leaving according
to the accounts of Turkish oficials) over 300
houses unframed, but do not believe that
there are 100 houses in Erzroom as sound as
they were before the earthquake The shock
was not only felt throughout the city, but in
the villages on the plain and even at Hassan-
Kalah, twenty miles to the east.
According to official returns, $50 dead bodies
have been taken out from the ruins, about 200
wounded, and 60 are missing. The heavy
shock, which did the mischief, is said to have
continued about eight seconds, and it was fol-
lowed by three others, leis severe, the same
day. Shocks, more or less severe, were also
felt at intervals during eight consecutive days,
since which there has been perfect quiet, and
the work OF building and repairing is now
going on as rapidly as possible.
The course of the earthquake seems to have
followed the direction of the mountain ranges,
viz, north-eas and southwest, and the great
est destruction was in the upper part of the
city, or nearest the foot Of the mountain.
Buildings firmly constructed, or newly erected,
were injured comparatively little, while others
by their side were levelled with the ground.
The Armenian, Papal and other churches, all
of which are in the lower part of the city, were
but slightly damaged, while mosques in other
quarters were badly injured or ruined, and
large number OF minarets were thrown down.
1t is a singular fact that the destruction was
almost entirely confined to the Moslem quar-
tiers of the city, and only twelve Christians lost
their lives. None of our Protestant friends
were injured, though several barely escaped
with life. One woman, sister of our native
preacher, b. Hohannes, feeling the waving tc
and fro of the house, seized her two little chill
dren and escaped in time to see roof and wall
come down with crash where she had been
sitting. Part of another house, adjoining ours,
was crushed but no one was harmed. The
two mission houses were injured, but not very
seriously.
The population of nearly the entire city was
turned out of doors, and it was indeed sad
sight, as | rode into town last Saturday morn
ing, to see the outskirts covered and the
streets lined with tents, some of canvas and
others OF bits Of cloth and carpeting, the rem
nants left to the poor, after the general desola-
ton."
SEVERAL ITEMS.
The Paris correspondent of the Daily News
says :-"An intrigue which deserves notice is
on foot for bringing forward Prince Napoleon
as candidate for Tuscany, rather than that
province should be lin accordance with the
wishes of its inhabtants) annexed to Sardinia.
A letter circulated by Government journals in
France, says, that everybody in Florence
speaks of Prince Napoleon as the future soyer-
elgn, and that people chalk on the walls, 'Vive
Napoleon (Jerome) King of Etruria.'"
The Independence Beige says :-"Our let
tiers from Rome announce the introduction of
Il reform in the Pontifcal States, the impor-
lance of which no one will be disposed to de-
ny. In consequence of the negotiations which
have been going on with reference to the pres
idency of the future Italian confederation, the
Pontifical Government has consented to adopt
the Code Napoleon, suppressing only those ar.
tices relating to the civil marriage"
A Geographic dispatch from Turn of the
9Th says :-"The new elections of deputies
which have taken place in consequence of the
change of ministry have been nearly all min
isterial. NJ. Ratazzi has been reelected at
Alexandria, and Gen Garibadi has been NOM
mated at Stradela."