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Show HUNDREDS KILLED BY EARTHQUAKE THOU8AND3 ARE HOMELESS AND MANY TOWNS AND VILLAGE8 HAVE BEEN DESTROYED. Seismic Disturbance In Turkey, Followed Fol-lowed by Outbreak of Fire, Causea Heavy Lota of Life and Many of Survivora Are Camping In Fields. Constlntlnople. The details of tho earthuako, which arc coming In slowly owing to the Interruption of tho wires, Indicate that the seismic disturbances wero widespread. Several hundred persons have been killed, thousands aro homoless and outbreaks of flro have occurred In many towns and villages. Great destruction de-struction has been caused by tho up. henval. Tho entire district between Conatam tlnoplo and Adrlanoplo felt tho shock soverely. Fugitives from Myrlophlto report 300 killed and 0,000 Injured. Tho town was still burning when they left. Ganos-Hora has been wiped out, olghty persons being killed and thirty wounded. The wrecked buildings took flro nnd most of them wcro burned. Shnr-Kol was destroyed and two nearby near-by villages wero engulfed. Adrlanoplo suffered llttlo damage, but Tohorlu wns pnrtly destroyed by tho earth-qunko earth-qunko nnd ilro. The courso of tho disturbance appears ap-pears to havo been In the region of tho Dardanelles. Kye witnesses from that section give harrowing accounts of tho havoc wrought. Tho majority of tho houses In the Galllpolls arc in ruins and tho people aro camping In tho Holds. Tohanak-Kalcssl Is In nn equally bad plight, but tho loss ot life In theso towns Is small, although the Injured are many. Warships anchored In tho Dardanelles Dardan-elles felt the shock severely. It was first attributed to a torpedo boat. The captain of tho American steamer Virginia Vir-ginia reports that tho light houso nt Gancs-Hora, In the sea of Marmora, has disappeared and that tho villages In tho surrounding country aro In flames. He was unablo to anchor and render asslHtanco owing to thu violent movement of the sea. |