As the city began to burn, Corning assisted in delivering more than 5,000 mostly Armenian and Greek children from an orphanage to the harbour, where they were transported to Greece aboard American destroyers.
Alors que la cité brûle, Mme Corning permet à plus de 5 000 enfants arméniens et grecs, principalement, de se rendre d'un orphelinat au port, où des destroyers américains les conduisent en Grèce.