| Show earthquake INCIDENTS courageous conduit and marvelosa Marve loaa ea capos of A constantinople correspondent of the new york tribune says that it will probably never be known how many persons were killed in that city by the earthquake of last summer the turkish government has a chronic hatred of facts and the newspapers were forbidden to publish statistics of the earthquake what are believed to be moderate estimates place alie number of deaths at about one hundred and fifty and the number of the wounded at about six hundred the correspondent cannot help praising the courage of the firemen stationed on bateh at the top of a tower more alian two hundred beeb high they stuck to their post although the tower swayed like a flagstaff and when the fires broke out after the overthrow of dwellings they gave the signals as usual another case of a similar sort was that of a minaret builder who had gone ap to the top of a minaret to remove a conical cap which the first shocks had thrown askew while he was there another shock occurred and there was another panic in the streets his assistants who were in one of the galleries of the minaret began to ran downstairs and the mosque servants below shouted to him to come down but he stayed where he was if this is going to fall he said it will fall before I 1 can get out of it and he proceeded with his work many wonderful escapes occurred two men were walking together A turk met them and as is not unusual when a turk meets foreigners he pushed in between them instead of turning to on side at that instant a stone fell from the bull ding above them and bit the tark who fell dead between horrified foreigners but the most marvelous escape was that of a boy three years old he was running along the street at the base of the city wall just as one of the ancient towers was overthrown when the dust cleared away he was discovered pinned to the ground by great stones lying on his skirts on each side of him but himself quite unhurt |
