New Britain herald., 1926-10-26
Brave American Nurses Minister
 to Injured While Earth Trembles
Many Tales of Heroism Coming From Armenian Quake Zone Where Destruction and Suffering is Appalling
 Cold and Food Shortage Adds to Misery.
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9lH]S 2Nono7uuoO i, ,trurrlinp valiantly to extricate herself from the misery, famine and desolation caused by the series of earthquake es beginning Friday night.
 Fifteen villages are In ruins and 23 others partly destroyed. the death toll is placed as high at 500, with 1000 others maimed or missing in the earthquake zone. which covers 100 square miles.
 The survivors are encamped on the bleak hillsides, unsheltered, lacking bedding and some without necessary clothing, the intense cold adding to their misery. There is also an acute food shortage, as much of the livestock was destroyed and the flour mills were razed.
 $50 Houses Razcd.
 In this city $50 Houses were lev elled. The orphanages of the Near East Relief were considerably dam aged, and some of the buildings housing the American personnel are beyond repair. Leninakan is still without electric lights. the power station having been wrecked. The telegraph and post office also was levelled. and telegraph communica- ton is greatly curtailed. Thus the correspondent is allowed but a half hour each day by the government for transmission of dispatches over an inlprovised wire to Tifis.
 Russians Give Freely.
 The Moscow government has do- hated S250,000 for relief. and the big industrial centers of Russia are contributing generously.
 Through all the anguish and ter TOT produced by the recurring earth shocks Friday night, American wo- men furnished an example of su- preme heroism.
 Four Near East Relief nurses, who modestly asked that their names be not used, operated on the maimed all night, plying their sur- gical instruments and binding wounds while the ground rocked under their feet.
 Their work was made doubly heavy by the destruction of the Ar menian government hospital, the surviving patients of which were transferred to the American med ical pavilion.
 Americans Praised.
 Particular praise is heard for Miss Elsie L. Jarvis of Washington, D. C., and Miss Laura MacFetridge of Nor risville, Pa. attached to the Amer ican nurses training school, who, after leading 1000 orphans to safety, worked over the maimed and mutil- ated natives who were brought in by the hundreds.
 The 5000 Armenian orphans un- der the care of the Near East Re- lief displayed infinite faith during the crisis in their American nurses, whom most of them look upon as their second mothers.
 The orphans behaved like little men and women." said Dr. Joseph Beach. the Near East Relief direc- tor, They are soldiers, every one of them."
 An extraordinary commission has been dispatched to the earthquake region by the Transcaucasian gov ernment and reports already have begun to come in saying that the property destruction will be much greater than at first announced. Not ] single house remains in the towns of Daarly and Baindour, while even sturdy churches and school houses built of concrete have been reduced 70 fragments.
 The havoc in Lininkan was so great that the entire city must be 'ebuilt, leaving S0,000 persons more or less homeless for the present. All schools have been closed for ten lays, the payment of all taxes su- ;pended and a months salary ad- yanced to workmen in all state in- iustries.
 The city of Karakala has suffered heavily also.