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Show I HUNDREDS OF HOMES LOST. Earthquake at Bltlls Causes Eight Deaths and Destroys Many Houses. Constantinople. Tho following dispatch dis-patch was received hero Thursday from tho Hov. Hoynl M. Colo, head of tho American mission nt BItlls: "At 10 o'clock In tho forenoon of March 29, there burst upon us unannounced unan-nounced the worBt carthqunko witnessed wit-nessed In forty yenrs In theso or tho :Erezerum volcanic regions. Such was its forco that our city seemed to bo In tho Jaws of somo monster, who would shake us into shreds, as a mastiff mas-tiff does his game. Down camo tho plastering, the furniture was overturned, over-turned, cracks were opened in strong wnlls, roofs wero shattered and rain poured In. During tho II rat day thcro were fourteen shocks and they still , .continue There have been altogether altogeth-er twenty-eight shocks. Of tho 4,000 Tiouses hero over 300 havo fallen, and Jmlf tho remainder have been serl- pusly damaged, nbout J CO to '$500 be-f be-f Ing needed to ropalr each house. Tho officials report that eight persons wero killed by falling walls, but thoy are all unknown It Hltlls." |