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Show 1 UPRISING OF SERIOUS PROPORTIONS III ADANA City Destroyed by Fire and at Least One Thousand Persons Killed in Three Days Fighting. Beirut, Syria. A terrible uprising has occurred in Adana. Street fighting fight-ing has been going on for three days, and at least 1,000 persons have been killed, according to reports received bere Monday. The city has been destroyed by fire. American missionaries mission-aries named Rogers and Maurer are dead. All the other Americans are safe. The British vice consul, Major Daughty-Wylie, is among the wounded. wound-ed. At Tarsus there was less loss of life. The American quarter, however, was destroyed. Four thousand refugees refu-gees are housed in the American mission. The need of relief is urgent, ur-gent, for shortly the fugitives will be on the verge of starvation. Conditions Condi-tions in the vicinity of Alexandretta also are most serious. |