The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1870-07-07
CONSTANTINOPLE.
The Awful COHGagraiiOH Of June 5th-
1.O00 Lives BOst-5G, ,6D9 Persons
HOuselesS -Sl0, ,0D9, ,00G Of PrOpE rty
Destroyed.

The AHIul tOHHa2Fail0H OF June 3ln-
1.OOO Lives LUSt-5G, ,6o9 Persons
IOuseless -sI0,009, ,00e Of Property
Destroyed.
CONSTANTINOPLE, June 5.
The 5th of June viii long De 4 MEM
Orable day in the minds of the present
and coming generations of the inhab-
itants of Pera, that part of this capi-
tai occupied 10y the foreign legations,
the greater part Of the foreign pOpula-
ton and vast number of native
Christians. About noon wooden
hOuse, situated on the highest part of
the city, called the TaXsim, caught
fire, and, freshened by violent north
wind, il spread with fearful rlpidity
over an extent almost Incredible; from
the TaXsim Ia what is called the Petit
Champs dies Morris, along the main
street 10 some distance between the
GaIatra SaTay College, consuming all
the fine houses of the place, of stone
as we'll as wood Some l0,UO0 houses
have been burned, and it is supposed
about ] ,OJ persons, men, women and
children. The loss il estimated 10 be
some so, 100000.
All of the finest cafes, the opera and
shops, with all of their contents
We're destroyed. 1t burned from
noon of the 5th to the follow
! ing morning, impetuously, and per-
haps, at no other time has there
been so terrible catastrophe here or
in any other capital of Europe. FIRE.
quent rs fires are in this place, no one
remembers any one which consumed
50 many fine houses, such valuable ef-
| fectS, and cost 50 many lives. The
dead are still being taken out of the
/ ashes, some from wells, cisterns and
cellars, into which they proposed to
escaped from the raging element of
! fire. Some have been found in wells
still alive. Few We're found still liy
| ing in the open ground. Smothered
| by the heat and smoke, hundreds fell
| exhausted ia the streets, and were COW
cred up In the falling cinders and burn
! ing fragments.
In one place twenty-five females
were found dead in one cellar. Moth
ers were found surrounded by their
children, the smallest in their arms,
all dead. Many lost their lives in
fruitless attempts to save the lives or
property of their friends.
Many Turkish gentlemen came over
from Stamboul to aid their Christian
friends and convey their families to
their own houses. All of the Sultan's
Ministers hastened to the scene and
did much TO saVe lives, but with small
success in saving houses and property.
The Grand YiZer and the Ministers
of Police and War were particularly
IT. ,,F
flames, and before nightfall the Sultan
also came from the side of the Tax
sim, and did much to encourage the
firemen in their vain efforts to avert
the flames with sums of money and
words of promise and encouragement.
His clothes having taken fire his suite
finally prevailed upon him to retire.
Early the next morning his Majesty
again returned, and, it is said, was
deeply affected at the dreadful calam-
ity which had befallen his subjects
He had already thOughtfully ordered
some five hundred tents to be brought
to the square of the TaXsim and the
adjacent Armenian and Greek ceme-
teries, and carts were everywhere seen
conveying food to the hOuseless and
utterly destitute poor.
SAD SCENES.
Such heart-rending scene of desc
lation cannot be imagined; it must be
seen. Mothers, fathers and friends
walking among the ashes in search of
children, brothers and sisters. Here
some twenty dead bodies lay together,
almost burned into a dark mass of
charred matter; there a number of
Others, scarcely burned at all, "sleep-
ing the sleep which knows no waking"
Some were but little changed, though
swollen, while many Others could
scarcely be recognized as having ever
been living men and women. Sever
al, many even, small children had
been lost in the crowd and rush and
abandoned to their sad fate. Many
must even have been trOdden to death
under the feet of those who madly
rushed along the fiery streets in search
of life and fresh air. What the end
of this globe must be by fire can be
imagined from the awful scenes of
burning Pera.
TANNING TIE FLAMES.
The wind was so violent that the
flames spread everywhere ut once; the
people no longer KBeW where tO ily =; !
all round them nothing appeared but
certain death in its most frightful
form, and il Is only surprising that so
few became victims.
The British Embassy, surrounded !
10y flames, took fire in the afternoon,
and is now only 4 mass charrcd ruins. |
Its archives and some of the silver
were found.
The American Consulate was burn
ed, but some of its archives have been |
saved.
The American Minister and Secre- |
taFy's houses were saved, the quarter
in which they are situated, called Aga
Jiamissi, not having taken fire at all, |
the wind blowing the flames to anoth-
er direction.
AID.
An Armenian gentlemen named |
Andrios EfIendi, paid the fircmen
81 200 to SaYe his house, and thus saw
ed all the rest of Pera. Ii il at the |
corner of Galata Saray and the street |
called Yani Charchea. Some 5000 !
have already been collected for the |
sufferers, and clothing and coverings !
for beds are being distributed every
where. .t..
One of the Sultan's barracks has |
been given up to the sufferers.
The Freemasons have organized q !
committee of succor for those who |
are in want of food and other positive |
neccssaries, and called upon their |
brethren in Europe and America for |
contributions of any amount through |
Messrs. Barring Brothers, of London,
who will forward them to the District |
Grand Master, Bro. John p. Brown, |
Secretary of the American Legation. |
Ifhumahity eyer had calls upon man
kind it is here at the present moment. |
Besides the tents given by the Sui
tan there is no other covering from |
the sun, and all business is hushed |
throughout the entire city. Thou
sands of the Mussulman population |
of StambOul are seen going among the |
suffering Christians distributing small |
sums of money, food and covering
Indeed, they show how much all re-
ligious sentiment disappears in the |
presence of SO much poignant grief /
and misery. The weather is warm, /
and even hot, and water is wanted 1
among the the tents, where, on boards |
and even the bare ground, lie thou
sands of females, who a day or two 1
ago reclined On the most comfortable /
sofas. A long time must pass be- 4
fore these can be provided for through /
out the other parts of the capital.
A population of at least $1,000 per-
sons are hOuseless.-M y Herald.
Get into -FOUR Hole. !
During the "late unpleasantness, +" !
there was a cool, unquenchable sort |
of Yankee named Gum, who ran a |
stage in Western Virginia, over a l