THE EARTHQUAKE.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1517, 13 August 1912, Page 5

THE EARTHQUAKE.

o HEAVY DEATH-ROLL. I VILLAGES NOW SMOULDERING ; RUINS. • FISSURES OPEN. Ey TolcirMDli—l'ross AGsonialion-Cotfyrlcht (licc. August 12, 10.15 p.m.) Constantinople, August. 12. Fifteen thousand pcr.'.ons are homeless a-s a result of tho earthquake. Ample food, medicines, and tents ha.ro Ix-on soul. Tho majority of the sullSorers are Greeks. Many fire-.; originated by the overturning of the lamps burning before liw ikons (sacred pictures). There are. a thousand injured in the hospitals. The. Constantinople returns are still jfncoinpk'tc. Many villages ore smoking ruins. It. is now stated that sixty persons wore killed at Myriophito, 150 nt Hora and Ganos, and 20 at Udjomaktereh. Sixty were killed and '150 injured at Sharkoi. Tho thermal springs at Bcdesgatch havo 1 dried up. j Fissures have opened in the ground atfi Lnleberg. They are 1500 yards long, I and nre emitting sand, hot water, and j sulphurous vapors. SHOCK LASTS A MINUTE. ' MINARETS FALL. Constantinople, August 11. The Vali at Adrianoplo roports Kiat tho earthquake and tho fires caused great loss of life and personal injurios'to many. There was havoc in tho Myriophito-. and Sharkoi districts on. Saturday. Necessaries have been sent forward. Tho shock lasted for upwards pf a minute. .i The Court-house, police station, and i other public buildings in Sharkoi. irero I seriously damaged. j The minarets on sown mosques and a I number of shops and dwellings collapsed. A watchman was killed and four sol- j diers buried alive. > The earthquake caused the explosion' [ of a lamp at Chlorlu and a serious con- ' flacration resulted. Threo hundred houses have already been destroyed. Turkish warships at tho Dardanelles felt tho shock. It was first imagined that it originated through Italian torpedoes. 1 There havo been many fatalities ashore J due to the subsequent fires. i