Huntsville gazette., 1883-11-03

less dog searching for a morsel from some
of the shattered kitchens are the only signs
of life. Tents dot the hills about the city,
and in these thousands of the population
now find abode. In the white-walled vii
lage there is no distinction between Ar
menians or Greeks, Jews or Christians. All
are huddled together promiscuously, with
out regard to race, the one idea being that
of self preservation.
The loss OF life in Smyrna was not great,
probably not over 125 persons, owing to the
absence of so many of the inhabitants from
the city and the precautions taken for in
slant flight by those bold enough to stay
till the last Some 200 or 250 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
the districts remote from Smyrna has been
very large. All along the western coast or
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 of 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
insulas and islands, have been almost filed
up by great land slides which came tearing
down the steep declivities with the water,
sweeping before them every habitation.
Tamos, Metelin and Lesbos, few miles off
the western coast of Antolia in the Egean
sea, were all severely shaken up, and there
was large loss of life and property on
Tamos, while the other two suffered much
less. One of the most curious things about
this severe action of nature was that Chios,
where the destruction was the greatest two
weeks ago and which lies only few miles
from Smyrna in close proximity to
the other islands affected, this time suffered
only slight tremOr. At the mouths of the
Hallys and the Iris the marshy tracts and
some Of the alluvial formation disappeared
al n lnft haI AZ otn
miles in extent, and of two to six feet in
depth, through which the tops of the trees
project and make dense forest partly
submerged. The southern table 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
junction of the Kara sea with the Murad,
near Kapau MAIDEN, which forms the Eu-
pirates, to the rise of the Edrens near
Tashardi, the 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 1t, the
earthquake seems to have the deepest hold.
All through the limestone hills, abounding
with innumerable fossil shells, tremendous
chasms have been made. The long ridges
of black volcanic rock, in the midst 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 unrecognizable
shapes and seem to be robbed entirely of
the weird attractions which formerly in
vested them with so much interest to
tourists and students of natural history.
The course of the Cox River, which winds
through colossal cliffs of limestone and
forms the celebrated pass of Erkeuke, has
been completely changed for about half its
length. The formation Of the pass, which
is the only one through which armies COM
;,,@o -of Acia Il
scend into the valley of the Euphrates, has
also been very much altered, many of the
rocks of Shaly Schists having been torn
away; one of the peaks, Bulghar Dagh,
was shaken off yesterday afternoon, and
descended into the valley with tremendous
force, gathering under itself huge masses
of earth until, before it spent itself, it be-
came a great landslide. Part of the village
of Mazetti was buried under it, and some
eighty or ninety Kurds perished in their
huts.
The whole country around the Gulf Of
Islanderun was 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 semi-crystaline limestone
which forms the base of the Allah Dagh,
and occasionally large section of the thin
ly imbedded rock has been thrown up to
form a great excrescence upon the exten-
sive table-landS.
On the tableland between Heran and
Oran there was river which for many
years fell into a cavern and disappeared.
The earthquake both closed up the mouth
of the 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
go ~ hot tha ha darah
From the peaks of the Kartun, an isolated
rock of feldspatic trachyte, which stands
proudly up like a 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.
Many small land-slides took place from
the peaks of the chains stretching out in
westerly direction from the great central
ridges between Arjish Dagh and Allan.
The waters of the Hgean sea were terribly
agitated during the shocks of yesterday and
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 along the western coast are coming in,
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
weeks ago.
At Alabanda ninety lives were lost.
A fugitive from Kespit places the deaths
there at fifty and the number Of wounded
at forty.
At Akhissar forty persons were buried
beneath a landslide and few more killed
by falling walls.
Cozagnda suffered depletion Of about
one-half Of her people, numbering 4OO
souls.
OF Singerti's people, about one-third SUR
vive to mourn the others.
From scores of other hamlets come similar
reports, and when all are in the loss Of life
will probably be found to aggregate well up
into the thousands.
Along the coast of Greece the shocks yes
terday were very severe and caused great
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.
At Mestra some twenty-odd people were
killed and double that number injured.
Monembassia also suffered considerable
loss to both property and life.
1t is believed here that the results all
through the western coast of Greece will
prove much more serious than now re-
ported.
The shock continued through the night
with less severity than during the midday
hour, but as noon approached to-day became
more and more severe, reaching their worst