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Show RELIEF RUSHED TO QUAKE AREA MORE THAN 400 DEAD; " MANY HURT; 100,000 HOMELESS IN ARM EN I V AREA. Heroism of American Nurses Saves 9000 Inmates of Orphange; The Quake Area Covered Over 100 Square Miles. Leninakan, Aremenia Upward of 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 xlol- lars. Frantic efforts are being made by soldiers of the red army, fireman 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 Grrden 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. |