Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-12-04
Confirmation Of the Reports Originally
Sent Out.
FULL DETAILS TAKE NOTHING
From the Horrible Character Of
the Massacre Hundreds Of
Women and Innocent Maidens
Violated and Murdered in the
Most Fiendish Manner.
co1wtqai. 1904, oy ne Associated Prs,,.

man OufleLaus IN ASIA O4AuOt ouN W N'19 .
a representative Of the Associated Press
succeeded in obtaining additional details
confirming the statements previously
made. The representative to-day met
twenty Armenian refugees who arrived
here from Armenia, after journey full OF
hardships and svtferiDgs. With every
mark Of horror and indignation the Ar
menians told an interpreter Of the scenes
they had witnessed. The latter thoroughly
eross-questioned the fugiuves in order
that there should be no doubt as 70 the ac-
curacy Of their stories.
Most of.the ersons who told their stories
10 the AssOcIated Press to-day escaped
from MoOsh, Bitlis and Sassoun, taxing
with them what little they could carry,
and making their way with the greatest
difficulty 10 the RUssO-Turkish frontier
ana going to Erivan and Etcnmladzin.
SEVERAL ARMENIAN WOMEN
eaeaned from the villages with the party
which has arrived here, but when near Err
zeroum they died from the effects OF sabre
wounds inflicted upon them before their
escape.
For about eighteen months the Arme-
niRn refugees say the province OF Sassoun
has been surrounded by Turkish troops,
and nobody has been allowed to enter II or
10 leave. About four months ago the Turk
ish authorities learned that the inhabitants
az Vertemis, a village outside the frontier
Of SassOun, were sending for the necessa-
ries Of life to the village OF Dalvorig. such
communication between the two villages
being prohibited, the Turks massacred
nearly all the inhabitants OF Nartemis.
This was the second massacre 70 occur.
The first took place about year ago.
One Of the refugees, a man named khad-
iilk. states that his uncle and aunt were
among the killed, the latter being violated
previous to being put 10 death. he adds
that an Armenian priest. named heyent,
was killed for refusing TO celebrate Turk-
ish rites in his church at Vartemis. The
village contained S25 Armenian houses be-
fore the Turks attacked it. but when the
fngitives left only % houses remained
Dalvorig. it appears, is the largest vii
laqe in the provence Of Sassoun and its
inhabitants, when they learned Of the
horror
PFRPETRATED BY THE TURKS
at Vartemis, attacked the Turks on the
frontier The Turkish commander eventu-
allv sent twelve soldiers into DalvOring in
order TO learn what had occurred. The
Armenisus. filed with indignation at the
Vartemis, attacked this detachment or
Turkish soldiers and put them all 10 death.
When the Turkish commander heard OF
the death of his soldiers, be determined
upon ayenging 10 in the most bloody man
ner possible. A strong force Of Turkish
troops was sent 70 the village with artil-
ierv and the massacre began. Guns kept
no a continuous firing upon DalvOrig, un-
iii practically, not one stone was LETT stand
ing on another.
Selo. the Bey OF Initzoun, Kurd, with, "a
detachment OF Turkish cavalry, went WI ..
the Turkish soldiers TO the village Of Semal
aud forclbly took the Armenian priest
from bis church after disgusungly dedl-
ing the sacred vessels and the priests
hands. They then bound him on donkey
which they drove distance OF few
wards. The soldiers then fired at the
priest and killed him and the beast he was
bound to.
In the same village, the Turkish soldiers
entered an Armenian house and violated a
woman and her daughter, the latter being
FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE.
From this village Selo forcibly took eight
Armenian girls and sent them TO his hs-
rem at Initzoun.
Further atrocities were committed by
the Turks at the village Of kellehuzen.
Before dawn this place was surrounded
nv soldiers. and while theinhabitants were
still asleep 10 was set on tre.
At Keliehkzen the soldiers killed the
Armenian priest Margos, who with twenty
other inmates OF house was burned 70
death. the soldiers preventing anybody
from escaping from the burning dwellings.
the chief of the village of Cheneg was
captured bv the soldiers, and bound 70 bis
tvTo daughters All three were then
scalded to death with boiling water.
a detachment Of twenty-five regulars OF
the Turkish cavalry, after committing ln-
expressible horrors az the village Of
Sebghank, went TO the village school ana
ravisbed the girls found there. The cav
slrymen then devastated the bnilding.
Ibo b ey, a notorious kurd origand, or
the village of Djibran, and colonel In the
regular army, went with detachment OF
Turkish troops 70 the Armenian villages OF
BahlOu. HateZgent and komk and at each
place they committed every crime Whlch 10
was possible 10 commit
After driving out the men, they collected
the female children of Bahlou together,
about 200 in ali, and afJer ravishing them,
they killed them all with guns and swords.
AFTER THIS MASSACRE
4he Turkish soldiers regaled themselves
Win vine and whatever else they could
find in the village.
Tbe EIrr6ish regular troops from Khan
and Pabran entered the Armenian villages
Of Allandzig and Aghteg' Alueu the ihhaO-
;tants and wrecked their houses.
Tbe nnn,ber on villages devastated an
tbis r,anner is slaid to be over 81 The
1-r,sDis1e fad iuleverv possible direction,
bn, nanv ~ Them were captured BY TIE
Turkish troops oeliOre tuey OOuAN eS' away
and were taken pfiSonerS'
Khadjik, who fyaS the Prlnclpai sp0AS 80 IS
y,sr ~ the Armeblan refugees, told the
whole story i'm a Most convincing manner.
ToxDoV Dece,nlbe S.-Dr. G. Thouma-
ian y we'll lpovvnl Armenian, has just re-
ceived a letter wfltten on oepSS luoeL 81
from TOdorian, AZ village near E'@sLO ll
The writer says: - -
"HOw can wrife OF Uhe nOrIOla Ol OVI
Nfo,n,sd rohbs-s Irode up to this village
an hour after sunseif ana luliLleola.S-y oe
gan indiscriminste Sttafks uPOu '"o Ah-
menian habitantS.
OVER oSE HCS aols
were fred at the house seV. Mr.
Zeekiss, pastor Of the Jill, -,,l.l I y
ity who was absent 49, 49,
balls struck thAp5S, 80
3 She subsequently dc "
her wounds. SOk
Khnoos, who wNre
Of the pastor s DO
when the dringR
ahfm 'rloro WouuN,