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Violently shaken and the Face of the |
Country Changed-Grent Loss of Life, !
and Untold Suffering the Isesult-The /
Entire Population of Asia Minor in |
Condition OF Terror.
CONSTA NTINoPBU, Oct. 90.
The earthquake shock experienced at
Smyrna yesterday was far more serious
than was reported-in fact no idea at all of
the disaster has been conveyed to the
United States by the meager reports sent
out. In fact this has been the case concern
ing the series of upheavals of nature that
have been going on in this quarter of the
world.
Ever since the great earthquake of two
weeks ago there has been q constantly re-
curing succession of shocks in all direc-
lions from this city, making circle of
earthquakes Of which Constantinople seems
to be the geographical center, yet the CEN
ter has not been shaken in the slightest de-
gree. The reports which have boon brought
every day by Arabs from the desert, Chris
tans on their tours, and sailors coming in
on ships, have created considerable alarm
here, and some of the inhabitants of the
city have made preparations for a hasty
flight from the sections where buildings are
put UP closely IOBbbutG. lutIb SetlllS 10 Db
little ground for fear that any disaster will
result here from the earthquake.
The shocks seem to have followed the
mountain chain extending from Java be-
meath the sea to and through Asia Minor,
and thence on to the southern part of Rus.
STA, continuing westward through Southern
Europe to Gibraltar and the sea coast.
The dispatches sent from here by the
agent of Reuters Telegram Company about
the disasters have been meager and unsats-
factory. Those wired to the Central News
Company were somewhat fuller, but
neither have given any idea of the real ex-
tent of the earthquake and the enormous
damage to property resulting therefrom.
Rumors have been received here that Sc
we're earthquakes have been felt in Europe
during the past week, and it is thought that
if such have occurred, as is highly proba-
BILE, they have been caused by the greater
eruptions i'll Java, which seem to have been
the terrible beginning of a phenomenally
long series of similar disasters which have
not vet reached their height.
Hundreds of Europeans and Americans
are coming in from all over Asia Minor
and some from other sections, all fright
ened by earthquakes, and flying in fear of
their lives.
Advices from Smyrna say that all
through Anatolia the inhabitants have
been leaving their homes and seeking
places of greater safety; that their fears
were well-grounded the developments of
the past tOrtN -elgnG hours snow, saturday
night the shocks, which have been of daily
occurrence for the past fifteen days, became
quite severe, and before daylight nearly all
the people in the shaken district had left
their homes. Soon after the sun came up,
the sky became suddenly overcast, and
great black clouds rolled up from the east
with great rapidity, in a few moments
forming a complete inky canopy where
there had boen clear blue There was very
sudden depression of the barometer anC
and birds hppama atarmpC
and took quick fight. Then the vibrations
began to increase in violence and fire
.uuancy. Ten clearly defined shocks were
said to have occurred before nine O'Clock
The waves then became almost continuous
extending from northeast to southwest
As they continued building after build
ing tottered, and about eleven O'Clock, a
which hour the shocks for some uneX
planned reason are most severe, there cam
u most tremendous crash and the entire de
struction of the city seemed imminent. Thu
walls of SMYRNA, which have been stand
ing since the time of the Crusaders, wer
completely demolished and with then
many of the remains of ancient Smyrna
have been destroyed. On the Castle Hill
some large fragments of ancient column
were thrown down and smashed into SINAI
pieces, and many of the handsome monu
ments in the great Turkish cemetery wer
also broken. The remainder of the oil
walls built around the old castle on the hi
are gone and the remains of the old castl
itself are now only heap of marble fraG
ments and small stones. The relics of tn
temple within the castle enclosure are nov
destroyed, and the station in which 81
Poiycarp suffered martyrdom is lost {
sight. Numerous columns, busts, cornice
and other fragments built in the walls
the Turkish town are broken into bits. I'll
ruins of the Antique mosque, said to hav
been the primitive church of Smyrna
which stood within the castle walls, hav
fallen.
Some distance to the south of the city I'll
ancient aqueduct which crosses the Mel,
River, and which is connected intimatei
with the memory of Homer, is entirely d
stroyed. The palace of Hob Hoamar, Il
Pasha, is in ruins. OF all the mosques NJ
churches in the city only one is left STAN
ing uninjured all others have been entir
" or partially destroyed. The large ROma
Catholic cathedral which was sOmewh
damaged two weeks ago is now so much /
jured ii will require an enormous sum
repair it. All the mission houses have be-
almost completely ruined, and the missio
aries in COnstautinople and elsewhere W
have to contribute to the support of the
brothers in distress till relief can be hs
from England and America.
The British military hospital is shak
down, but the few patients under treatme
had been moved before the great era
came. OF the many coffee-houses ne
Caravan bridge, over the Meles, only tv
are left standing; the Office of the Fren
newspaper was completely ruined, and Z
publisher will be unable To resume bu
ness.
The stations along the line of the Smyr
81 Alden Railway are all in ruins, ana I
tracks are twisted into such shape that
is thought new lines will have to be III
The iron palisade surrounding the barrac
on the snore is thrown down and the bi
racks themselves very badly damaged.
Some of the city officers removed the he