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Show RELIEF RUSHED TO QUAKE AREA MORE THAN 400 DEAD; MANY HURT; 100,000 HOMELESS IN A Pi M E N I A AREA. Heroism of American Nurses Saves . 9000 Inmates of Orphange; The Quake Area Covered Over 100 Square Miles. Leninakan. Aremnia Upward ot 400 persons have been killed, hundreds hun-dreds of others mortally injured and 100,000 made homeless by earthquakes which, starting Friday night and recurring re-curring until early Sunday, have destroyed de-stroyed the greater part of this city of 40,000 inhabitants and twelve thriving thriv-ing towns in the Vicinity. The whole of Armenia has been terrified and the destruction amounts to millions of dollars. dol-lars. Frantic efforts are being made by soldiers of the red army, firemen and American relief workers to extricate extri-cate those buried alive. Leninakan, seat of the largest American orphanage orphan-age in the world, is like a vast sepulchre se-pulchre of ashes. From time immemorial immem-orial Leninankan, formerly Alexan-dropol, Alexan-dropol, has been a gigantic volcanic amplitheater, due to the activity of Mount Ararat and Mount Alagoz in the Tertiary period; but the city never before experienced such a violent and disastrous upheaval as that which leveled nearly all human habitations on the great Leninakan plain Friday nigTit. The second shock, which was five-fold stronger than the first, tore open giant fissures in the great vol-canio vol-canio mountain of Alagoz, which is 14,400 feet high and gleams with perpetual per-petual snow. The famous valley of Araxes. the traditional seat of the Garden of Eden, was swept clean of houses, trees, cattle and all human abodes. Most of the dwellers here are of nomadic character, and most of them escaped by fleeing to the hills. Gentle Shock Registered at Coast. San Francisco A mild earthquake, lasting about ten seconds, shook San Francisco Sunday at 2:52 p. m. No damage was done. The shock was felt by residents of Palo Alto, thirty miles to the south. It was described there as "very mild." Vibrations of an earthquake perceptible for several seconds here at 2:53 this afternoon were registered for a period of from four to five minutes on tha seismograph seismo-graph of Lick observatory on Mount Hamilton near here, according to Dr. Robert Aitken. associate director of the observatory. Dr. Aitken described the quake as of minor intensity and on the same line as the big quake of 1906. |