The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-19
A Half Dozen Villages DestrOyed-Later Re
ports Indicate that the Loss of Life
Has Been Exaggerated.
Line of Policy Marked Out by the
English Council of Liberals.
The Chinese Government Preparing to
Close the Port of Canton-Des tructive
Storm the English Coast.
THE LATEST EARTHOUAKE.
HaIf-Dozen Villages Destroyed and Three
Thousand Lives Lost.

Thousand Lives Lost.
CoNsTANTINoPLE Oct. 18.-Among the vii
lagos destroyed by the earthquake in the
Grecian Archipelago and Anatolia were Kat
opanaya, Refs, Dere and Lidja. Slight shocks
are still felt on the island of Icpos. The
British admiral has sent assistance to Chesme
and Chios
The latest advices from Smyrna state that
the earthquake OF Tuesday, which shook the
island of Chios severely, and extended along
the entire coast of Anatoiia, and far into the
| interior of the western portion of Asia Mi
nor, was much more severe than indicated in
the first advices received here. The first
shock was felt at Smyrna about 720 in the
morning. 1t lasted, apparently, only about
| the fourth part of minute, and was fol-
lowed by three lesser shocks in quick success
sion, which seemed to be only of about half
the duration of the first With the first
shock many dwelling-houses came down,
the damage being greatest in the Armenian
quarter, on the lower slopes of the ancient
Mount Pegasus, where the visitations were
much more severe than along the plain be-
tween the hill and the shore, where the
Christians reside. In the adjoining villages
of Burnabad and Buda a number of hand
some villas were demolished.
The loss of life in the city of Smyrna
proper was not very large, the wave seeming
to have spent its force before it reached
there, but the scenes among the people were
far beyond description. The fear and con-
sternaton was terrible. The most resolate
| ~ Oh, fria do -,
danger, though many lives might have been
saved bv so doing The first thought of all
seemed to be self preservation. Crowds of
men, women and children rushed into the
| open space and the middle of the streets.
The caravan bridge was crowded with a
| motley lot of people, and the camel grounds
adjacent were completely thronged with
| human beings. The castle on the summit of
| the hill was thrown down with a tremend-
Gus crash. The large Roman Catholic ca
| thedral, a comparatively new building was
| damaged considerably, one of the towers
falling and killing some eight or ten persons
| who were running wildly from their homes
near by. The railway station was badly
damaged, and the tracks of the roads are so
much torn out of line and torn up that it
will be impossible to run trains for several
| DAYS to come. About an hour after the first
] shock several fires broke out amid the ruins
and added for the time being to the terrors
|
| fore serious damage had been caused.
| Several ships were cast far up on the shore
and landed high and dry in places from
which it will cost hundreds of dollars to get
them afoat again. The city is in great
state of confusion and uncertainty and no.
| body yet ventures to sleep in their houses
| Hundreds of rude and impromptu tents have
been put up in the suburbs, and large num-
| bers of people who cannot be accommodated
even in these meager quarters are lying upon
cots, and even the bare ground, rather than
return at present to their more dangerous
| habitatiOnS in town. The tide, which is or
| dinarily but twenty-five inches, rose to
| height OF more than seven feet sweeping
| away much of the portable property on the
shore as we'll of a number of ishermens
| huts.
The extent of the field of action shows
that the forces which produced this great
| earthquake were manifested deep down and
not on the surface only. The pecunary loss
to the city of Smyrna will be very great
! but the loss of life will hardly exceed three
| hundred persons.
In the Island of Chios, in the archipelago
a few miles beyond the promontory, behind
| which Smyrna is situated, the shocks were
felt with terrible severity. The first one oc-
Cured almost simultaneously with that felt
! in Smyrna. The entire 400 miles of territory
of Chos seemed to be for the time but one
undulating sea of earth. The subterranean
rumble was followed so quickly by the terri
| Bile shock that the people were given no time
to fly. A thick dust rose, and the sky was
darkened. The limestone rocks dotting the
| island were rent asunder; the beautiful val
| leys scanned with enormous fssures, and the
course of the streams which irrigatc the fer
tile plains suddenly changed Nearly all of
| the extensive wine cellars on the island were
utterly ruined, and the loss to owners will
| aggregate an enormous sum.
| At Kastro, the capital of the island, the
castle built in front of the city as a means of
| defense in olden times was leveled to the
ground. Three small silk factories were to-
! tally destroyed, and one cotton factory was
damaged almost beyond repair. OF the
! towns population few people escaped some
| in ury, and large proportion were seriously
| hurt. The loss of life at Kastro will aggre-
gate fully 900 souls. Most of the dead are
| Turks
| In other parts of the island over |, 300 per-
sons are so far reported killed, and it Is
| feared the number will greatly exceed pres
ent estimates when all the outlying terrific
ry is heard from. 1t is, OF course very diff
! from KastrO owing to the difficulties attend
ing travel and the excitement of the pop
| ulace.
Along the coast of Western Asia Minor, or
! Anatolia, the shocks were felt with great
! force, and the latest reports indicate that the
effects of the earthquake were very severely
felt as far into the interior as Kulah over
ninety miles east Of Smyrna. There is no
| doubt that when the results of the disaster
are fully made known, the loss of life and
| the damage to property in the territory west
of the Hays, the Karaiah Dagh, and the con-
! tinuing range as far as Lake Iber will be very
great. All the villages between Chesmeh
and Vouria are totally wrecked, scarcely q
| house being left standing to mark the sites