Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-11-08

till the last Some 200 or $50 people were
injured while making their escape, but only
a few seriously. The destruction of prop
erty and life in the outlying country and in
very large. All along the western coast Of
the peninsula, which presents as jagged
and irregular an outline as, any in the
world, and in many respects very much re-
sembles the opposite shore sefs Greece, the
shocks were so severe as to change the for.
nation of the land in many places. Some
of the deep bays, with bold projecting pen.
inssdas andislands, have bee4atmost filled
up by great aAd Rlides VAch>c aNe tearing
down the steep declivites with fhe water
Tamos, Metelin and Lesbos, few miles of
the western coast of Antolia in the Egean
sea, wer9all seYere3Y-haksfrupyun there
was s-lAge lossof life a4d property on
i Fs one e1s lES sbings a %s
this severe action of nature was that Chios
where the destruction was the greatest two
weeks ago and wRiSR Qes oily few miles
from Smyrna in close proximity to
the other islands affected, this time suffered
.Hallys and the Iris the marshy tracts and
some of the alluvial formation disappeared
entirely and lsfF . bed Of water several
miles in extent, and of two to six feet in
depth, through which hetopsyof the trees
project and make q dense forest partly
submerged. The soutfisrn tablssl land was
rent and sundered in many places, and the
numerous small salt lakes, with which it is
dotted, have. gone from sight. From the
near Kapau MAIDEN, which forms the Eu.
pirates, to the risarof the Edfens near
Tashardi, thes earthquake has been. very
severe and the effect of the shocks ex.
tremely disastrous. All along the Taurus
range, and to the south and west of it, the
earthquake seems to have the deepest hold.
All through the limestone hills, saboundins
with innumerable fossil shells, tremendous
chasms have been made. The long ridges
of black volcanic rock, in the mitlst OF:
which are many platforms and tablelands,
and upon which the rock terraces rise one.
above another and Terminate at the crest
in conical submits, has been so disrupted
that they are thrown into tunrecognizabls
shapes and seem to be robbed entirely of
the weird attractions which formerly in.
vested them With 80 much interest to-
Thecbugse 6f the Cox KivSr ,whi ch winds
through colossal cliffs q ainest6ne antt
forms the celebrated pass of Erkeuke, has
been completely changed for about half its
is the enly one, Though WITCH armies c5nT
ing from the interior of Asia Minor can de.
scend intosthe valley sf the; Euphgates, has
rock rocks s| Of shafy Schists having been torn a
away; one of the peaks. Bulghar Dagh,
was shaken offsyesterda& afternoon, and
descehdea Ato be yaliNEith tr&nsA louss
of earth until. before it spent itself, it be-
came great landslide. Part of the village
of Mazetti WAS buried Under 1t, sand Bone
eighty or ninety Kurds persisted in their
huts.
The whole country around the Gulf OF
Islanderun vas badly torn up and many
lives lost there. The course}of the river
Toisus was almost completely blocked by
huge masses of rock, which fell from the
sides of the steep defiles, great assures were
made in the Senl-crystaIlne llmeStonef
which forms the base of the Allah Dagh,
and occasionally a large section of the thin
II imbedded foek has been thrown up to
form a great excrescencs upon the extern
sive table-lands.
On the tablsfan6H between, Heran and
Oran there was a. river which for many
years fell Into a cavern and disappeared.
The earthquake both closed up the mouth
of thu cavern and dried up the small river.
The Shock seemed to have extended all
through the extensive tablelands in the
anti-Taurus range but not to have inflicted
any serious damage in that section. In the
gypsum district and the environs of the
From the peaks of the Kartun, an isolated
rock of feldspatic trachyte, which stands
proudly up like gigantic fortress and the
summit of which is composed of a red brac-
ciated schariaceous conglomerate, came
rumbling huge fragments of trap trachyte
and porphyry. : 90.
Many small land-slides took place from
the peaks of the chains stretching out in a
westerly direction from the great central
ridges between Arjish Dagh and Allah,
The waters of the Egean sea were terribly
agitated during the shocks of yesterday and I
last night and had not quieted down en-
tirely at six O'Clock this evening. Reports
of large losses of life in the interior towns
and though the number. of killed is. very
large it is not thought the total will be as
great as reported from the shocks. of two
weeES.ago. 'aiIis. 80 = gtf gHe = 49,
p AtAlabanda ninety lives were lost.
A fugitive from kespit places the deaths
there at fifty and the number of wounded
at forty. 90 - 't.. ggdi J. 7
At Akhissar forty persons were buried
beneath landslide and a few more killed
by falling walls. 'f''', -
Cozagnda suffered a depletion of about
one-haf of her people, numbering. 400 !
souls.
OF Singerti's people, about one-third sur
vive to mourn the others.
reports, and when all are in the, loss, of life
will probably be found to aggregate well up
into the thousands. ,e''.F~ "r-ts
Along the coast of Greece the shocks yes
loss of life and property. Advices from
that section are somewhat meagre. AT Cap
au Verla many buildings were thrown down
and some so persons killed, while 125 more
were severely injured. ,-.sj
At Mestra some twenty.odd people were
killed and double that number injured.
Monembassia also suffered considerable
loss to both property and life. ,~rrI
1t is believed here that the results. all
through the western coast of Greece will
prove much more SERIOUS than now fe-
ported. , qg|
The shock continued through the night i
with less severity than during the midday
hour, but as noonapproachedtn to-day became
more and more severe, reaching their worst
at one O'Clock. At six O'Clock this evening
the shocks still continue with frequency,
and the people, like the country, are trembl- I
ing for fear some of the slumbering vol
canoes will break forth and add still more
to the horrors they have now to undergo.
"A young Canadian girl who had
her picture taken by an Ottawa pho
tographer refused to receive and pay
for it on the ground that it was not
correct likeness. The photographer, |
angered by her refusal, added mus
tache and a cigar to the picture and
placed it on exhibition in his window. |
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