New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-04-10
GENERAL FOREIGN NE WS.

DISMAL SCENES AT SClO.
INCIDENTS OF TIE RARrHQUAKE-RUINs ON ALL
SIDES.
LONDON, April 9.-The IImeS's correspondent
t scio under date OF the 9TH inst ~ follows
have lust arrived here from Constantnople' anu h"
picure desolaton such IA is rarely witnessed
looks as II II had been terribly bomharded huhur'"S
thouses are transformed into shapccss mass OF rnhs
under which lie buried unknown number of victims
majority OF the remaining houses are already cfHcReu
,d rooaess and may fall any moment. Nearly every
huildag in the has suffered more or less i"' III
habtants wander about, anxious 10 e'"cn i"I
missing relatives lost property, hnt are ai'"u
10 rtsk their lives In the pcr1lous WoFk "'
clearing away the rubbish Many who arr willing 10 eH
ose Themselves 10 the danger prevented 10y friends
or by the police Fear grief aud dcspair ar depicted ON
nearly oyery face All have sad or tragic ale 10
tell.
The first shock was felt sunday afternoon at abont
halfpast o'clock. Immediately houses began L" IhI
Wild ,hreks were heard every side. Then followed
nm awful silence minues. The terrified SURVIVORS
GRADUALLY yentured into the NARROW lanes and reached
the open spaces. Shortly afterward another tFrp'e
shock completed the devastation. Then II remained
quiet until sunset, when II again bcfhh I" SnaAc
the island throughout severely ~ before All hgh'
the shocks succeeded each other at short int"vas'
nd earh onc was preceded by dun sounds like rubtcr
ranean explosions. Since that frequent shockf have
been felt few minntes while writing The present
dispatch distinctly heard c1ploson Ike sound ana
felt the earth trcmbc but ~ am under canvas lave
nothing To fear.
The old Genoese fortress containing about 400 hous"-
inhabited by Mussulmans and jews suffered more than
the rest OF the town. The ground there sank
about half metre, ana nearly "''
the houses were immediately destroyed, and several
hundred pe rsons must have pershed II s known that
about thirty Mussuman women were assembled IN ono
OF the houses not of whom escaped .
A medical commission Ia now sitting 70 contld'r me
e1pediency Of covering the rubbish In the i"fe- WIN
earth as there IL hope Of saving any hNcr ana me
disnterment OF the dead might produce an 'hdrulc'
n ~ now believed that throuChou' the whot l-Ahd
which contained 20 900 iDhahant- bOOO or |Np were
killed and 25 per cent OF the survivors Nrrr wounded
The French British, United States aud Austrian gun
vessels In harbOr doing all In their p"' I" ~
sis the authorities In the work OF relief Ony Ten OF
the Inhabitants OF Chesme killed, hut many houses
are In ruins and 30 900 people are without shelter.
visited Chesne this afternoon Only about ten ihhhb-
ns killed but many houses In rlinr anu many
more are dils The Mayor assured me thht thI
fourths OF the houses In dangerous condition ne
inhabitants are afraid 70 live even In thO-. "hlc1
arc unniured for every night since Sunday frequent
sbocks lave been felt Nearly oil prefer ~ ea'np out
Az the weather IL fine the hardship In this respect Il not
great II In said that throughout the district hot sr
than 30 600 people without shelter. some wonder
fil ESCAPES have occurred. one woman was buried
under the ruins for ftytwo hours, and at last was
rescued having gwen birth In the ueantin" I" cid
The child Is dead but the mother s doing well.