, 1881-04-10

! IhE TriltHEe: The catastrophe ut Scio
has surpassed NIL conception The number
| Of killed and wounded Is more than
| l3,000- There are 40,AD furnished sufferers
| who require immediate assistance. Tie Central
Committee here i1s,plores you to open subscrip-
] lions in your office for their relief, uad bexs you
10 send the amount collected through Barring
brothers to the Ottoman Bunk, London.
! SrEFASoy1Tcu, President
| SIX TIL OIsASD KILLED.
t 10 tht Wtste,7, .fs.ae!,:td F'..s1.
Sc1o, April "A medical commission il now
| sttin. to consider the expe6tcncy Of covering
the rubbish in rho fortress with earth, sl.ere
Il no hope of stvinK any lives. and the disnter-
l,ienr OF the dead might prtul1ce epidemic. It is
how believed that throughout the whole island,
hich Contained. 10,tu0 uhnntaEts. t, ,Gaa) s,tO
we're killed and = pier Gent OF tle survivors
Wounded TIE French, E-iti-!1- United States,
arid Austrian CUR, vessels In the harhnr are DUNG
al in their power assist the authorities In the
ork of relief.
Only ten Of the inhabitants or Chesme Fars
killed, but 1na;y houses are II, ruins and al,uN
hI0pie are without shelter.
4 CORRESPONDENT AT scro =:
t,letyraphs. untter date Of the .th. is fu1;ss:
Lave just arrived here from Cuns:ant'slope, lind
Hind Il picture Ut desuiat!ou such il r,rely
Witnessed. The town looks as Ii it htl been ter
.etbly bo.nbaraed- Hundreds Of HOUSES ase
transformed iuto snspuess mass Of ruins. .ur-
utr which tie buried an unknown uutlibc- OF
Victims. \ majority Of the remaining house5
re ,t.rcsdy cracked uz1d t.,;fess. and may full
1T euy moment. Nearly every tl.uiny in the
town suffered more less.
''TI1E INHABITANTS
wander Gbout, anxious to scurch for missing
relatives or lost property, but afraid to risk
their lives in the per;lons work Of clearing away
lne rubbish. Many wl, ara willing 10 expose
themselves to danger are prevented by frienos
..r by the police. Fear. grief, md dcs;n,:r are
depicted on nearly c;ery face. Ecar'v I'LL have
so1nc sad Or trngie tai. to tell. The first shuck
,Ins felt Sunday afternoon nsnttt hal. ptst
v'ciack. lmusediatci: houses hesAn tn fax
Tils: shrieks we're heard every si,ic. 1Ecu.
followed
AN AwFrl. SILENCE OF suME MINUTES
The terrified survivors gradually veotnrca into
tho narrow lanes a:.d reached the opca specs.
shortly afterwards uaother terrible shock catt.
,fc1eI thu devastation. A!i nI.nt sllocsi sEc-
.ccde1 each other ut sl.or- Intervals. asld euca
.,:le WIS preceded By duh sounds l:E" stb;ef~
r,l,lean explosions. Si:ce that frequent sboeSs
have been te1t. \ few moment: aso, "ut.c
writing the present dispatch, distinctly hea'd
an explosion, a1;d felt the eurth trc'nlc: bur-
rs am under canvas, have nothing to feat.
THE OLD G1:SuESE FORTRESS.
containing about :G0 HOUSES, inhabited ay 1as'
sutu,uns End Jews. suffered more than tie ast
nf the town. The ground there :unk about hail.
i metre. nntt nearly ait tho houses were iMfoc"
41iatcly destroyed, and several hundred pefsoss
must have pershed. 1t Is kHuwn that no"lt
thirty NllSsulnan wnlncn Werc asse'nofet III
one house. not one Ut whom escaped. lce
southern part OF the is1untl IS said to have SUI
fcrcd more than this town. Her si"jcst}'s Eua:
vessel D,tcrn arrived this morning. The cap"
thin at once came ashore, aud after CONSULTING
With tho Governor ct the Island, organized fs-
lief PARTIES for tending the sc. and extrtca.iia
tho dead from the ruins. fIe then went o'ef l"
cHEs1SE !: ;
and made cnreful inquiries regarding Inc sla'e
Of the town end inhabitants. To-tnurrow be 'n- "
tends visiting tho southern, part OF the 1saild =
>shcre less has been eonc for the relief OF tna
sufferers. visited -Chcsinc this Afternoon
Only nbout Leu Inhabitants were killed. ou1 .
many houses were in ruins, and many nso'0 .
dllap:datctl. The Mayor assured me that tofss g.
fourths Of tho houses arc in dangerous coaoF
ton. The inhabitunts avc
AFRAID TO LlrE: IN THOSE WHICH ARE IN r.
lNJEnE1,,
for every night since sunday frequent shocks :
have been felt. Nearly all prefer IT. camp out :
As the weather Is tue the hardship ii. this r. !:
spcct is NOT great 1t Is said thar throughout
tho district not less than ;1,Gs3 people .aie
Without shelter. In llastro tho work OF e1t1f
eating bodies und attending the wounded IS psr
crossing satisfactorily, but tho stitin@ odof ~
the ricj;,ltr y! many Of the ruins prb'e5 tnat
the former operation is far from complete III
the other hand, =
EoNE WONDERFUL ESCAPES -; !:
have occurred One woman Was buried unues
ruins Afty-t~o hours. aud ut last was re7cufs' =
having given birth in the meantime to cnfa* !
The child Is Dead but tho mother Is doing well