The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-12-05
TOLD BY THE ARMENIANS
y0RRyBLE STORIES or 0UTRA GES
Committed BY TURKS.
A Father and His Daughter Tied Together
and Thrown into Boiling "ater-
Young Girls Outraged.

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! day after a journey full Of hardships
| and suffering Securing the services OF
/ an interpreter, the Associated Press rep
resentative questioned the unfortunate
| refugees concerning the terrible events
| wnich occurred la Armenia, and OF
| which they had in number or cases
| been eye-wtnesses With every marx
! OF horror and Indignation, the Arlnenlans
| told the Interpreter Of the scenes tney
| had witnessed. The latter thoroughly
! cross-questioned the fugitves IN order
| that there should be no doubt as to the
accuracy OF their stories, ana ne tneh
| handed to the representative Of the As
! ISOLATED Press the substance or their
| tales of terrible cruelty and barbarism
practiced by the Turks. This party or
AImenians is the first mat has escaped
from the districts where the massacres
| have occurred. and II Is believed that
| even worse remains TO- be tod, as thc
| horrors recorded are understood TO nave
lasted for a long time after these NJ
menans fled from the bloOd-stdined DIS
trcts. Most OF the persons who told
their stories today escaped from Moosh,
what little they could carry, and making
their way with the greatest difficulty 10
| the Russo-Turkish frontier and going TO
Ertvan ana Etchmiadzin. The latter
place is the ecclesiastical capital OF Ar
menia. although 1t is situated fifteen
miles west of Erivan. in the Russian do
| minions. II IS only twenty-five miles
from Mount Ararat. At Etchmadzin
sides. He is termed the Catholics. or
Prmate OF the Armenian Church.
WOMEN DIE On THE WAY.
Several Armenian women escaped from
the villages and came with the paTte'
which arrived here but when near EF-
zeroum they died from the effects Of
saher wounds inflicted upon them before
their escape.
For about eighteen months, the Arme-
rian refugees say. the province Of Sas-
~ rtrlfi oh
troops, nobody being allowed to enter
II or to leave. About four months ago
the Turkish authorities learned that the
inhabitants of Nartemis, a village out
side the frontier Of Sassoun. were sending
for the neccssarics OF life 10 the village
Of Dalvorig. such communication be-
tween the two villages being prohibited.
the Turks maSSacTed all the inhabitants
OF Nartemis. This was the second mas
sacre to occur The first took place about
year ago.
Khadjik. states that his uncle and aunt
were among the killed the latter being
violated previous TO being put to death.
lie adds that an Armenian priest, named
hrate Turkish rites in his church at Var
tennis. The village contained three hun
dred and twenty-five Armenian houses
before the Turks attacked It. but when
the refugees left IL only twenty-five
houses remained standing.
Dalvorig. II appears is the largest VIII
lage IN the province Of SaSSOun. and its
inhabitants, when they learned of the
horrors penetrated by the Turks at Var
tennis. attacked them on the frontier.
rhe Turkish commander eventually sent
twelve soldiers into DalvOrig i'm order to
learn what had occurred The Armenians
filled with indignation at the atrocities
committed by the Turks at Nartems,
attacked this detachment of Turkish SOL
| dierS and put them all to death.
When the Turkish commander heard Of
the death of his soldiers he defprr1,fp cd
upon avenging it in the most bloody man
| ner possible \ strong force of Turkish
troops was, sent to the village with artil-
iery, and the massacre began. The guns
| kept up continuous fire upon Dalvorig
until practically not one stone was left
standing upOn another.
Selo, the Bey Of initzoun, Kurd with
a detachment Of Kurdish cavalry. went
with the Turkish soldiers to the village
Of Semal and fOrcihlv took the Armenian
| priest from his church after disgustingly
hands. They then bound him on a don
key. which they drove a distance of
few yards. The soldiers then fired at the
priest and killed him and the beast TO
which he was bound.
GIRLS TAKYN TO HARFM.
| In the Same village the Turkish SOL
| lated woman and ner daughter, tho lat
! ter being fOurteel wears of age From
| this village Selo forcibly took eight Ar
menian girls and sent them to his harem
at 1nitzoun.
Further atrocities were committed by
the Turks at the village of Keliehuzen
Before dawn this place was surrounded
! by soldiers. and while the inhabitants
were still alseep II was set on ere.
The brutal soldiers entered the resi-
| dence Of man named ArakeI. who was
asleep with is wife, and tortured them
both intolerably IN terrible manner with
red-hot irons.
At KeHehuzen the soldiers killed the
Armenian priest Margosy, Who with TWEEN
" other inmates n house, was burned
from escaping from the burning dwell
ing. The chief OF the village of Cheneg
was captured by the soldiers and bound
to his two. daughters. Al three were
then scalded 10 death with boiling water.
4 detachment OF two hundred regulars
u thc Turkish 'avllry. aft II committing
ineXpressible horrors at the village OF
Sebghank, went to the village school and
outraged the girls found there The
cayalrymen then devastated the building
Ibo l8ey, notorious Kurd brigand Il
the village of Djibran. and a colonel in
the regular army, went, with a detaCh-
ment of Turkish troops. TO the Armenian
villages Of BahlOuvahateZgCnt and Komk
and at each place they committed every
crime which Il was possible TO commit.
TWO HUNDRED CHILDREN KILLED.
After driving out the men, they col.
lected the female children of Bahlou to-.
SttuFt -dtDut TWO nuuGftd III dI-du1 ar
ter outraging them they killed them all
with guns and swords After this massa~
ere the Turkish soldiers RECALLED them
selves with wine and whatever they
could find I'm the village.
The Kurdish regular troops from KHAN
and Bahran entered the Armenian viii
| lagos OF Aliandzig and Aghteg. killed
the Inhabitants and wrecked their houses.
The number Of villages devastated in
this manner Is said 10 be over thirty
two The Armenians fed in every posi-
be direction. but many OF them were cap
tured by the Turkish troops before they
could get away and were taken to prison.
Khadjik, who was the principal spokos-
man OF the Armenian refugees, told the
whole story in most convincing man
ner.
DR.. G. Thoumaian. a well-known Ar
ten on September 18th from Todoveran.
a village near ErZeroum. The writer
says:
How can l write of the horrors Of our
life for the days since the 18th? Mounted
robbers rode up TO this village an hour
indiscriminate attack upon the Armenian
inhabitants. over two hundred shots were
fired al the house Of the Rev. Mr.. Socks
pastor of the Protestant community, who
was absent in ErzerOum. Three balls
struck the pastors wife in the face. She
subsequently died from the effects of
her wounds Some poor people from
Khnooe, who were living in the basement
OF the pastors house, hurried upstairs
when the firing was going on, and all
of them were wounded Mr.. Richardson
an American missionary. came from Er-
zeroum to attend the funeral OF the pas
tors wife. On September 18th band
of robbers committed murder at Anda-
gon, and carried off cattle. At Dody they
broke into the houses and plundered them
Of hot Th0nmalan