Wholesale Massacre

The Mexia Evening News, September 15th 1922, page 1.

Wholesale Massacre
Murder And Loot
In Pillaged City
ATHENS, Sept. 15.—Turkish hordes murdered and looted today as Smyrna was swept by fire. Kemalist horrors in the city which was wrested from the Greeks by the Turks described by American refugees who arrive at Piraeus on board the American destroyer, Sampson.
Fire, which was started in the foreign quarter by a Turkish sergeant, according to witnesses, is now beyond control. The entire Greico Armenian section has been wiped out and the flames are spreading, creating a panic among 200,000 Christian refugees.
Wholesale massacres by Turks of Greeks and Armenians is reported.
Several Americans were molested and it is feared some may have been killed.