the town after the fire, as did Henry Franklin-Bouillon, the French government representative, who declared that out of 11,000 houses in the city of Magnesia (Manisa) only 1,000 remained. Patrick Kinross wrote, "Out of the eighteen thousand buildings in the historic holy city of Manisa, only five hundred remained." The total economic damage was estimated to be more than fifty million lira (in contemporary value). Some of the captured Greek soldiers were employed in the reconstruction, such as in the rebuilding of the destroyed Karaköy mosque.During the Lausanne negotiations the Turkish delegation stated that 9,084 buildings in the Sanjak of Manisa, outside the city, town centres were burned by the Greek Army. More than 92% of all buildings in the centre of Manisa were destroyed - 13,638 out of 14,773 buildings. The Greek Delegation's reply on the same day does not contradict this claim. Loder Park, who toured much of the devastated area immediately after the Greek evacuation, described the situation he had seen as follows: Victims The total number of victims during the fire is not known. Turkish sources estimate that 3,500 died in the fires and 855 were shot. A comparison can be made with several nearby towns that were also burned by the retreating Greeks. There were estimated to be 3,000 victims in Alaşehir and 1,000 in Turgutlu. The number who were wounded is also unknown. Turkish sources state that three hundred girls were raped and abducted by the Greeks. Many rape victims were thought to have remained silent out of fear or shame. A number of Greek troops were captured and some of them were lynched by the Turkish women they had raped. Colonel Stylianos Gonatas states that many of the Muslim victims were kept inside the houses while being burned just as in Kasaba. For that reason, the downtown was still dangerous for the Greek soldiers. The Greek retreat was accompanied by looting and other people lost their possessions in the fires and lived for some time among the ruins of their homes or crowded together in the surviving buildings. In Turkish literature The event is mentioned in a work by Turkish journalist Falih Rıfkı Atay. The Turkish poet İlhan Berk was a small child living in the Deveciler neighborhood at the time of the fire and fled to the mountains with his family. His older sister burned to death in their house. He wrote