THE NEW YORK TIMES, SEPTEMBER 15, 1922.
Figure Smyrna Loss at $200,000,000
© Copyright 1922 by The Chicago Tribune Co.
SMYRNA, Sept. 15. --- Three-fifths of Smyrna is in ashes, and more than
300,000 persons are homeless this morning as the fire buns itself out after
having destroyed the entire American, Greek and foreign quarter. The financial
loss is close to $200,000,000, of which $12,000,000 is American. The loss of
life is impossible to compute. Every allied ship in the harbour has volunteered
its services in clearing of the refugees, many of whom are badly wounded. The
streets are littered with dead. Thus, despite Mustapha Kemal Pasha's assurances,
Turkey has "regulated past accounts."
After checking the roll of American citizens, it is found that every American
in Smyrna is safe. The teaching staff of the Paradise College was evacuated
before the blaze became serious. The teaching staff of the Collegiate
Institution, together with all the students, boarded the ship Winona, which is
now in Athens. Business men and relief workers who remained are still quartered
on the destroyer Litchfield.