QUAKE IN TURKEY
Village Completely Wrecked (Rec. 10.10 a.m.) ANKARA, Aug. 18. The official Turkish News Agency reports that at least 20 people were killed and 52 injured in an earthquake which rocked a wide area in Eastern Turkey today. Semi-official sources said that 1200 persons are homeless. Panic-stricken people are camping in fields outside the town of Erzefum. A village near Erzerum, which was the epicentre of the' earthquake, was completely destroyed.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 69, Issue 263, 19 August 1949, Page 3
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