Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1883-10-25
THE EARTHQUAKES HAr0r.
A Terrible Quarter Minute In Asia
Minor fbe DpsoiatIon Of Java Re.
DrOdueel.

produced.
Later dispatches from the scane of
Tuesday week's earthquake iu Asia
Minor, paint in graphic Language q
scene OF destruction aud dss0lation rival
ling the recent terribir visitation OF Java.
The first shock was felt at Smyrna
about 20 a. m. 1t lasted apparently
about the fourth parG of minuta and
was followed by three lerser shocks in
qhi,k sneoesson, which seemed to bs
only o! about half the duration of the
first. With the first shock many dwell
ing houses came down, the damage being
greatest in the Armenian quarter, on the
lower slopes of the ancient Mount Pega-
sus, where the vibrations we're much
more severe than along the plane be-
the hill and the shore, where the Chris
tians reside. In the adjoining villages of
Burnsbad and Budja, number OF hand
some villas were demolished.
The loss of life ia the city OF Smyrns
proper was not very large, the wave
seeming to have spent it's force before it
reached there. But the &c. nas among
the people we're far beyond description
The fear and CONSERVATION were terrible
The most repolute persons did not dare
stay to rescue friends in danger, though
many lives might have been saved by so
doing. The first thought OF all sseloed
to be self-preservation. About an hour
after the first shock several fires broks
out amid the ruins and added, for the
time being,to the terrors of the situation,
but they were put out before serious
damage had been caused.
A wave OF inky blackness swept from
no ha 4plf nf
bringing with it disaster to number of
the many vessels in the magnificent har
Dor. Several ships were carried far up
on the shore and landed high and dry.
The city is in great state of confusion
and uncertainty and nobody yet ventures
to sleep in houses. Hundreds of rude
inpromptu tents have been put up in the
suburbs, and large numbers of people
who cannot be accommodated even in
these meagre quarters are lying upon cots
and even the bare ground, rather than
return at present to their more danger
GUS habitations in town.
The peouniary loss to the city of
Smyrna will be very great, but the loss
of life will hardly exceed 800.
Ia tina Island of Chios, however, the
subterranean rumble was followed 30
| people were given neither time to fly nor
10 throw themselves into the arms of
loved ones and bid them an everlasting
| adieu Frightful noises succeeded the
shock, terrifying cries, fearful howiings
of human beings and crushed animals;
thick dust was diffused in the atmosphere
aud the sky WAS darkened as in the
| darkest nights. The limestone rocks
Iot tIa ,nla N.
beautiful valleys were scanned with
| enormous assures and the course of the
streams which irrigste the fertile plains
| suddenly changed. At Kastro, the cspi
tai OF the island, 900 lives were lost and
1900 people are 80 far reported to have
been killed in other parts of the Island.
Along the coast of Wes.srn Asia Minor
or Antolis, the shocks were felt with
| great force and the latest reports indicate
that the effects of the earthquake were
very severely felt az far into the interior as
| Kulah, over 80 miles east of Smyrna.
There is no doubt that when the results
of the disasters are fully made knogp,
the loss Of life aud the damage to prop
erty in the territory west OF the Kara
jahdagh and the continuing range as far
as Lake 1ber will be very great. All the
villages between Chesmsh and Youria
are totally wrecked, scarcely house
being lett stahdips to mark the sites oi
the many thriving places which on Mon
day were scenes of life and busting
activity, for this is one of the busiest
seasons with the people of the Penins uls.
1t is estimated that about 300 persons
lost their lives in this par. OF the country
The Porte has issued an appeal to the
people to assist the sufferers by the earth.
quakes in Asia Minor, stating that
20, 900 survivors OF the disaster in thai
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