New Iberia enterprise. (New Iberia, La.) 1885-1902, 1899-11-11
Recent Earthquakes in Asia Minor.

Commencing just above Hierapolis, the
scared city of the Phrygians, and ending
in an abrupt promontory at Priene, once
famous for its Panionian games, the range
of Mt, Mastuarus traverses one of the
most fertile regions of Lesser Asia.
To the north extend the rich plains of
Ionia and Lydia to the south the Meaud-
er winds its slow length through loan
tracts studied with towns and villages.
A long chain of hot springs, some of
them ehalybeate, one or two small lakes
of hot mud, as well rs the formation of
the rocks, clearly demonstrate the volcanic
nature of this region.
On Wednesday morning. September 90,
at As, a strong earthquake shock, last
ing thirty-fve seconds, followed bya mum
ber of lesser conclusions, sadly reminded
the inhabitants of this province that the
"latent forces were by no means extinct.
The seismic waves We're, in the first com
motion, long. and took southeast to
lines made by the seismograph and the
zones in which the buildings fell-this
of course, in those ccntcrs where it was
not felt in all its might for there every
thing is in ruins.
In subsequent shocks the waves were
short. being, more properly speaking, up
heavals of the soil The nature of these
perturbations is evident at Nazli, where
the ground rose five or six feet III some
The effects produced are most eXtrao,dl-
nary.
The village of Haskieu looks as if it had
been snatched up by some mighty hand,
crushed in an all-powerfuI grasp, and
then violently hurled back to Mother
Earth At Adm u plane tree, which can
with difficulty be eneircled by two men,
has sunk to the bole, the surrounding
houses being little damaged.
Between Adm and Nazli the railway
line for 800 yards was shifted seven feet
and raised five.
Near Kocharl an enormous crevasse
half drained the Meander, while at Yeni
Bazaar so large body of water was
elected from tissuras in the soil that q
thousand sheep were carried away and
the shepherd drowned In Karaja Su all
the water has withdrawn and the wells
have dried up, whereas at the Djnli kaya
antmony mines, near Odemish, the vol
ume has increased four-fold.
The pillars of the bridge at Seraikieu
have turned round on themselves, but the
embankments have suffered little. All
the towns and villages in an area of $500
square miles have been totally or partly
destroyed and at Seraikieu, once busy
center, now heap of ruins, a fire
broke out and completed the destruction.
Denizi has 300 houses and shops on q
level with the ground Bouladan, 1,5OO ;
Nazli, 1,200 Aidin, 500 to 600, Ortakche,
800 to 400. Karaja Su, Bosdoghan and
Turkass may be said to be totally destroy
ed, for the few houses still standing are
so shaken as to constitute in themselves q
source of danger. Homas, New Shamli,
Yeni Bazaar, and Morali require rebuild
ing.
The loss of life is comparatively speaking,
small being variously estimated from 200
to 1000. 1t is, however, impossible to
give exact figures.
AS is generally the case in earthquakes,
the wounds are bad, but the number of
the wounded is luckily, small, not exceed
ing 900 to 1,5O0, Fully 100,O0 persons
are deprived of shelter, and disease will,
ere long count more victims than the earth
quake, especially at Denizli, which as its
name implies, is place of many waters.
WALLACE II. TURRELL, Smyrna.