Earthquake Killed 3,000.

New York Times 100 years ago today, August 18, 1912:
Americans Returning to Constantinople Bring Terrible Story of Ruin.
    CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 17.— A terrible story of suffering and ruin, caused by the recent earthquake along the Sea of Marmora, is told by members of the expedition sent to the stricken district on the United States gunboat Scorpion, which returned here to-day.
    J. Cornell Tarler, Second Secretary of the United States Embassy, and the four doctors on board report that conditions along the shores of the Sea of Marmora were much worse than expected. They estimate the number of killed in the towns and villages at 3,000, while the total of those injured reaches 6,000.
    It was found impossible to approach several villages on account of the odors arising from the human bodies buried among the ruins. Other villages were heaps of charred debris.
    Earthquakes continue almost dally at many places along the coast. Six shocks were felt yesterday, and many damaged houses collapsed.
    At Myriophite several houses standing on the sea front, surrounded by gardens, were intact, but behind scarcely a stick or a stone was left upright. Many fissures were seen in the ground, but none of great size, although the villagers reported that a cleft nearly 200 feet deep had opened in a hillside eight miles in land.
    The people throughout the district appeared stunned by the catastrophe, and made no attempt to help themselves, sitting about in groups and brooding over their misfortunes.
    The Red Crescent Society and the Greek philanthropic societies are doing good work in the district. The American Medical Mission, after treating 300 patients, handed over its supplies and medical stores to the Vali of Adrianople, who is superintending the work of relief.