The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-11-03


fires have started among the debris. Hardly
q human being is visible within the limits
of the city. A solitary Arab cropping about
in the narrow, crooked streets, or a friend
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 viii
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 tho precautions taken for IN
slant flight by those bold enough to stay
till the last. Some 300 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
the districts remote from Smyrna has been
very large. All along the western coast OF
the peninsula, which presents as Jagged
and irregular an outline as any in the
world and i'll 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,
Tamos, Metelin and Lesbos, a few miles off
the western coast of Antolia in the Hgean
sea, were all severely shaken up, and there
was a 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 Chlos,
| 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
| entirely and left bed of water several
miles in extent, and of two to six feet in
depth, through which the tops of the trees
project and make a dense forest partly
submerged. The southern table land was
rent and sundered in many places, and the
| numerous small salt lakes, with which 1t 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 it, the
earthquake seems to have the deepest hold.
All through the limestone hills, Astounding
with innumerable fossil shells, tremendous
chasms have been made. The long ridges
of black volcanic rock, in the midst OF
which are many platforms ana taDlelands,
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 &c
tourists and students of natural history.
The course of the Cox River, which winds
through colossal cliffs of limestone anC
forms the celebrated pass of Erkeuke, has
been completely changed for about malt lt'
length. The formation of the pass, which
is the only one through which armies com
, inc from the interior of Asia Minor can de
, scend into the valley OF the Euphrates, has
? also been very much altered, many Of thu
rocks of Shaly Schists having been tori
| away; one of the peaks, Bulghar Dagh
! was shaken off yesterday afternoon, anC
= 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 villag
of Mazetti was buried under it, and SOM
: eighty or ninety Kurds persisted in thel
{ huts.
= The whole country around the Gulf o
Islanderun was badly torn up and man.
: lives lost there. The course of the rive
a Toisus was almost completely blocked b.
J. huge masses of rock, which fell from tn
a sides of the steep defiles, great assures wer
= made in the semi-crystaline limeston
! which forms the base of the Allah Dagt
/ and occasionally large section OF the TIM
Z
i form great excrescence upon the eXter
i sive table-lands.
e On the tableland between Heran an
u Oran there was river which for man
II years fell into cavern and disappeared
e The earthquake both closed up the mout
$ of the cavern and dried up the small rive
= The shock seemed to have extended a
Y through the extensive tablelands in tn
T. anti-Taurus range but not to have inflicte
20 any serious damage in that section. In tn
Is gypsum district and the environs of til
IL Sari Chi Chok the loss will be considerable
lie From the peaks of the Kartun, an isolate
re rock of feldspatic trachyte, which stand
a, proudly up like gigantic fortress and th
70 summit of which is composed of red bra
ciated schariaceous conglomerate, can
le rumbling huge fragments of trap trachy1
IS and porphyIy.
" Many small land-slides took place frol
e the peaks of the chains stretching out in
le westerly direction from the great centri
I'd ridges between Arjish Dagh and Allal
d. The waters of the AGgean sea were terribl
e. agitated during the shocks of yesterday an
IN last night and had not quieted down 81
at tirely at six o'clock this evening. Repor
IL of large losses of life in the interior town
to and along the western coast are coming Il
en- and though the number of killed is yer
n large il is not thought the total will be {
i'll great as reported from the shocks or wv
.ir weeks ago.
Id AT Alabanda ninety lives were lost.
A fugitive from Kespit places the dealt
en- there at fifty and the number OF wound'
mt at forty.
sh AT Akhissar forty persons were burl'
ar beneath landslide and n few more kill'
vo by falling walls.
CHI Cozagnda suffered depletion of abo
he one-half of her people, numbering 4
ST. souls.
OF Singerti's people, about one-third su
ma vive to mourn the others.
ne From scores of other hamlets come siml
il reports. and whom all are in the loss OF u