Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1894 — TWELVE THOUSAND KILLED. [ARTICLE]

TWELVE THOUSAND KILLED.

KuUrhan. Penis, Annihilated By as Earthquake. A San Francisco dispatch Jan. 39, says: Additional advices by the steamer Belgte, from China, announce the complete annihilation by an earthquake of the town of Kntschan. Persia. Twelve thousand people were killed in the awful disaster. Ten thousand bodies had been recovered. The once Important and beautiful city of 000 people is now only a scene of death, desolation and terror. The district is in the western section of the valley stretching between LtazarMazjid and Ala Da;h mountain rang** from Meshhed to Phirvan. The valley communicates by a past with the frontier of the Russian transc&spian territory.