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Show uu DEATH UIST PLACED AT ONE THOUSAND Constantinople. Aug 11. The Interruption In-terruption of telegraphic communication communica-tion makes it difficult 'to obtain accurate ac-curate details of the disastrous seismic seis-mic disturbance which occurred on August 9, on both sides of the Dardanelles. Dar-danelles. No accurate figures of the number of victims can yet be tabulated, though some estimates place the death list at 1000 and the Injured at from 5000 to G000 In the town of Shary-Koy, which wa completely destroyed, alsty per- . oono were killed and 150 injured ' Fires Rie reported ir-Dm man cities in which numerous buildings werei burned ! Fissures opened to the length of about a mile along the nvor at Lule-Burgas, Lule-Burgas, forty mils southeast of Adn-anople, Adn-anople, and from these apertures hotl water, &and, foam and sulphurous va- pors were emmitted. , Everywhere in the Rtricken zone ' there Is terrible want and distress. Appeals for doctors and help are con- stantb being received at the capital, and the government is doing its ul-1 most to satisfy them Tho hospitals I here aro crowded ' Tho a all of Adrianople today reported re-ported to Constantinople that the loss of life there was small. The quake seriously damaged the public buildings build-ings of the city. t |