APPALLING DISASTER.

Evening Star, Issue 11132, 6 January 1900, Page 3

APPALLING DISASTER.

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, January 4. Eight hundred bodies have been recovered from the ruins of the villages in the Tiflis district destroyed by earthquake. [Tiflis stands in a narrow valley among high bills on the Kur, 1,495 ft above the sea level, in latitude 41deg 4:jniin N., and has a citadel on a high rock commanding the towu. It was formerly the capital of Georgia, and is now the seat of the Russian Governor-General of the Caucasus region. It is divided into the native (or Armenian)and theßujsianquarter, thelatterbeingmore open and better built, with wide streets ami squares. It is the seat of a Greek and of an Armenian bishop. There is-on Armenian cathedral, Greek and Armenian churches, a German Protestant church, gymnasium, and other schools, a botanic garden, museum of natural history, and handsome public gardens for recreation. Manufactures both cloth and carpets, arms, etc., and carries on a busy trade with Persia, being the chief emporium of all Transcaucasia. Several German colonies lie round it. The climate is very warm in summer, and ia winter, the situation not being elevated, the thermometer seldom falls below the freezing poiut. Population, 70,591, including about 13,000 Russians, 30,000 Armenians, 15,000 Gruses, etc.]