The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-10-31
THOUSANDS BURIED ALIVE
LANDSLIDE FOLLOWS EARTH
QUAKE IN BOKHARA.

Tswn Of Ksratash WIN $1,000 nhabi-
tauts Overw1helmed ny Prodigisus
Mass of Earth and Rocks From Noun
e~ainsidc-Few Escape % b Open.
Special csD,s psspafohes 20 TEE SUN.
TAMKUNp. Russian Turkestan, Oct. 80
Word has just besp received here by courier
that the entire town OF Karatagh. IN Bo-
khara. and its Is 700 Inhabitants have besn
buried in Q tremendous mountain slide. Il
Is said that Scarcely . score Of tho people
survived and that the sui erinUs Of these are
pitiable.
One report In to the effect that the Gov
ernor Of Karatagh and his mother are Tho
only survivors. The slide wa caused by
the recent severe earthquakes in the noun
tains.
Karatagh Ia situated In n narrow valley,
with prectpitous mountains towering above
IL. Although landslides are frequent in
that region following earthquakes, tho
people remained in the town, and whom
the immeasursble weight OF rock crushed
down upon them they were caught and
engulfed.
view. Hundreds were entombed in their
nOneB. ku6 COlu IL 5CNSIe huu 8uu3 kE0htiy
to the suffering Of the few survivors.
The m~ountaineers hurried to the scene
and are caring for the living. but owing to
the danger of further rock slips it ID inn
possible to attempt to reach those buried
in The ruins.
81. PETERSBURG, Oct. 30.--A despatch
from Tashkend says that the destruction
a. KAratash was practically a repetition OF
tho disaster which occurred at Andijan
some time ago.
The statement that the only survivors
were the Governor and his mother was moor
rect. Although a majority Of the inhabi-
tantA were killed, many escaped because Of
the fact that the houses in which they re-
sided were only one story high. which
enabled them to rush u the open before
the walls crumbled. The total number Of
dead Is not known. but it is great.
LONDON, Oct. S.-A news agency de-
spatch reports that the town Of karatagh in
Bokhara. Central Asia, has beer totally
destroyed by "A landslide. which was caused
by al earthquake on October 81. The
greater part Of the population Of IL, 900 per-
sons was buried
Karatagh is 100 miles southeast of
odfnhTkhnu, III fuseidu luTkehtHt. ~ -
on the southern slope Of the Hissar Noun
tains. which form he northern boundary
of Bokhara. Severe earthshocks occurred
there on October 81, causing a great deal
OF damage.
At Samarkand the shocks lasted from
early in the morning of October 81 until
the afternoon OF the same day. Two
women were killed by falling houses.
On October II the Weather Bureau
instruments at Washington recorded an
earthquake beginning at IL o'clock the
preceding night and lasting until early in
the morning Of October ~. Its location
was believed 10 be west Of Australia. in the
southern indian Ocean. On the same day
1t was announced from London that pro-
longed earthquake shocks. beginning al
S o'clock in the morning Of October u
and lasting for several hours. were recorded
by the instruments in the Isle OF Wight
and at Laibach. Austria. The distance
Of the disturbances wns estimated as over
5000 miles from the observatories On
the same day dispatches were received in
London from st. Petersburg reporting
severe shocks in Central Asia. at Larta-
kurgan. khokand m other places, in
addition to SaInarkand.
The disaster at KaFat3gh is supposed Ia
be due to the loosening OF the earth mass
on the mountain side from the rock core
through the mechanical action of The
earthquake.