Evening journal., 1894-12-04
TIE EAR#EHi2a HORRORS
Further Details OF the Merciless
Massacre by Turks.
THIRrY-gwo TOWNS DEMOLISHED

L-l-H II W. INV NO ULADAl1IlLLs
Refugees From the Country Tell Of the
Tragedies Thc English Government Is
Taking steps Toward an investigation.
Tile sultan neoorates raslla.
ATHENS, Dec. "A newspaper repre-.
sentative met 20 Armenian refugees who
arrived here from Armenia after a iour.
ney fun Of hardships and suffering So
curing tho services OF o FIRST class inter-
prefer he gathered the Armanians togoth-
er az convenient place and after rolleg
ing their pressing necessities the interpret
er questioned tho unfortunate refugees
concerning tho terrible events which
have occurred in Armenia and of which
they had in o number Of cases boon eye
witnesses. With every mark of horror
and indignation the Armenians told tho
interpreter Of tho terrible scenes they had
witnessed The lattor thoroughly cross
questioned the fugitivas in order that
there should no no doubt as 90 the &C.
curacy III their stories
These Armenians are the FIRST that have
escaped from tho distrlst whore the mas
saores have occurred, and it IS believed
that oven worse romans to be told. us the
horrors recorded arc understood to have
lasted for q long tiino after this party of
Armenians fed from tho blood stained
districts. Most Of the persons who told
their stories escaped from Moosh Bitlis
and Sassoun, taking with them what lit
tlo they could carry and making their
way with the greatest difficulty to the
Russo Turkish frontier ana going to
llrivan ana Et1hmiadzin. Tho latter
ftf arn s. f1g o0nfoufaufforI oorstn1 ,F An
menia, allh ugh it IS situated 10 milos
west Of Erlyan, in the Russian doiun-
ions. 1t is only % miles from Mount
Ararat at Etohmiadzin the chief of the
Armenian church resides. He is termed
tho catholics or primato of tho Arme-
nisn church.
Several Armenian women escaped from
tho villages with the party which has ar
rived hero but when near Erzaroum they
died from the effects of sabor wounds in
tlctod upon them before their escape.
The Second Massacre.
For about Is months, the Armenian
refugees say. tho province Of Sassoun has
been surrounded by Turkish troops, and
nobody has been allowed to enter IL or to
leave About four months ago the Turk
ish authorities learned that the inhabit-
ants of Nartoms, village outside the
frontier Of Sassoun, were sending for tho
necossaries of lifo to the village Of Dali
vorig such communication between the
two Villages being prohibited, the Turks
massacred nearly all the Inhabitants of
Nartomis. This was the second massacre
to occur. The first took place about q
year ago.
One Of the refugees, man named
khadjik, states that his unolo and aunt
were among tho killed, the latter being
violated previous to being pua to death.
Iio adds that an Armenian priest
named keyont was Killed for refusing TO
celebrate Turkish rites in his church at
Nartemis. Tho village contained 825 An
menian houses before tilt Turks attacked
It. but when tho fuaitivos left only 20
houses remained standing
Further atrocities were committed by
tho Turks as the village of keliehuzen.
Before dawn this place was surrounded
by soldiers, ana while the inhabitants
were still asleep it was set on fire. AT
kollehuzon tho soldiers killed tho Ar.
meninn priest, Margos, who, with 20
other inmates Of q house, was burned TO
denth, the soldiers preventing anybody
from escaping from the burning dwollina.
DalvoriG it appears is tho largest viii
inhabitants, when they learned of tho hor-
r1rs perpetrated by the Turks at Nartem-
s.. attacked tho Turks on the frontier
Tho Turkish commander eventually sont
v soldiers into DalyoHg in order TO learn
what had occurred. The Armenians,
filled with indianation at tho atrocities
committed by the Turks al Nartemis, az.
tackod this detachment of Turkish SOL
di5rs and put thom all TO 6oath
Whom tho Turkish commander heard OF
the death Of his soldiers ho determined
upon avonging them in the most bloody
manner possible a strong force of rure-
ISL troops was sent to tho village with
artillery ana the massacre began
Tho chief or the village Of Cheneg was
captured hy the soldiers end bound go his
two daushtors. Am thr.o were thon
scaldcd Go death with boiling water
Iha numhor Of villages devastated in
this manner Is said 10 ha over ae Tho
Armenians Aod in every possible dir9c-
tion, but many OF them were captured ly
tho Turkish troops before they could get
away and taken to prison.