While exact details are unlikely 10 bbe available for many days, the earth~ guaka which occurred in Anatolia on Wednesday is undoubtedly the greatest natural disaster ever to have befallen the country. Twelve large provineial towns and over eighty villages were partly of completely wrecked.
President Ineunt as well as the ters of Interior and Health are (to the devastated area, in scenes of suffering and despair everywhere great relief parties.
Eighty per ent, of the population of Erzerum {s said to have perished in the earthquake. The dead include five officers and eighteen cadets of the military school, which was entirely wrecked.
Conservative estimates put the total killed and injured in the earthquake which "occurred in Anatolia Wednesday as over 25,000, mostly According to the Turkish newspaper "Haber." the Erzinjan district lone suffered 42,000 casualties, most-killed, out of a total population 60,000.
It is reported that 51_ provincial towns and. 90 villages and hamlets were reduced to ruins. Railway communications are still interrupted as 2 Fesult- of collapsed bridges, and the sufferings of victims are accentuated by the extreme cold. The temperature has reached 30 degrees below zero. Many homeless persons were frozen to death in the absence of any kind of shelter.
The town of Kwan is almost completely destroyed. Further violent shocks occurred in the devastated areas. yesterday.
Donations en offers of help are forthcoming from all parts the
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