The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-12-04
KILLED BY SCORES
WHOLESALE MURDER. ARSON AND
RAPE IN ARMENIA BY TURKS.
Thirty-two Cities Perish at the Hands
ofthe Bloody Savages of the oito-
man Empire-Chief ana D&"@hIer9
Scalded-Priest Tied 10 Donhe!
and Riddled With Bullets.

ATHENS Dec. 3.-The Associated Press,
exclusively, has been able 10 give TO the
world the facts of the terrible strocitles
nernetrated upon Armenian Christians in
Asia Minor. and today representative OF
the Associated Press succeeded in obtain
Ing additional details confirming the STATE
ments previously made.
The representative today met twenty
Armenian refugees, who arrived here from
Armenia after journey full of hardshIps
aud suffering. Securing the services OF a
lfrst-class Interpreter be gathered the
Armenians together at convenient place
and having relieved their pressing necesS-
tiles the interpreter questioned the reIu-
gees concerning the terrible events OF
which they had in number of cases been
eye-witnesses This party If Armenlan5
Is the first that has escased from 'be dis
tricts where the massacres occurred ana
I, is believed that even worse remains TO
ne told as the horrors described are under
stood 10 have lasred for long time after
This party left Most of the persons who
told their stories today escaped from
Moesb, Bitlis and Sassoun. taking with
them what little they could carry and
making their way with great difficulty 10
fhe Russo-Tnrkish frontier and going to
Erivan and Etchmiadzin-
Several Armenian women escaped from
the villages with this party but when near
Frzeroum they died from The effects OF the
sabre wounds Inflicted upon them before
their escape For about eighteen months
the Armenians say the province of Sassoun
has been surrounded by Turkish troops
aud nobody has been allowed to enter ii or
he he
Turkish authorities learned that the III
ha bitants of VsrIemis, village outside
the frontier of Sassoun. were sending tor
the pecessarie- of life to the village of Dal-
vorig Such communication between the
two will ges being prohibited, the Turks
rassacred nearly all the inhabitants OF
yartemis This was the second massacre
TO occur The first took place about year
ago.
One Of the refugees man named
khadjik, states that his uncle ami aunt
were both killed, the Latter beng violated
previous to being put to death. An Arme-
nian priest named kevont was killed for
refusing to celebrate Turkish rites in his
church at Nartemis. The village con
tanned 325 Armenian houses before the
Turks attacked il, but when the fuci'ives
left only twenty-five houses remained
standing.
Dalvorig, it appears, is the largest viii
lage III the province OF SassOUn and its in
habitsnts when they learned Of the hor-
rors perpetrated By the Turks at Vartemis.
attacked the Turks on the frontier. The
Turkish commander eventually sent
Twelve soldiers into Dalvorig 40 learn what
occurred. The ArmeDians, filled with in
di.nation at the atrocities committed
BY the Turks AT Nartemis, attacked this
detachment of Turkish soldiers and put
them all 10 death.
When the Turkish commander heard of
the death of his soldiers he determined
upon avenging it in the most bloody man
ner ossible. A strong force of Turkish
troops was sent to the village with ar
fillery and the massacre began. Guns
kept up a continuous fire upon Dslvorig
until practically not one stone was lett
upon another.
Selo. the hey of In;tzoun, n Kurd, with q
Of Kurdish cavalry, went
with the Turkish soldiers TO the village of
Semal and forcibly took the Armenian
priest from his church after disgustingly
defiling the sacred vessels and the priests
hands. They then bound him on donkey
which they drove a distance ofa few yards
The soldiers then fired at the priest and
killed him aud the beast he was bound to-
In the same village the Turkish soldiers
entered an Armenian house and violated ii
woman and her daughter, the latter being
forcibly took eight Armenian girls and
ent them TO his harem at lnitZOun. Fur
her atrocities were committed by the
Turks at the village of kelieuhasen. Be
fore dawn this place was surrounded by
.oidiers and while the Inhabitants were
still asleep It was set on fire. The brutal
soldiers entered the residence of a man
NJ med Arakel who was asleep with his
wife. and tortured both internally in a ter
lblr manner wit N red hot
At kelieuhesen the soldiers killed the
Armenian priest, MARCOS. with twenty
other inmates of a house. They were
burned to death. the soldiers preventing
anybody from escaping from the burning
building. The chief OF the village of
theneg was captured by the soldiers aud
bound TO his two daughters. All three
were then sc1ided to death with boiling
water A detachment of twenty-five regu-
lars of the Turkish cavalry, after commit
Ting ineXpressIhle horrors mt the village of
went To the village school and
j avlshed the girls found there. The cav
alTymen then devastated the building
Tho Bey the notorious kurd brigand of
the village OF Dj!bran. and a colonel in the
regular army. went with "A detachment of
Turkish troops TO the Armenian villages
of Behloud, HateZgent and homk and al
each place they committed every crime
possible TO be committed.
Alter driving out the men they collected
the female children of Bahlon together.
about 200 IN all. and afIe- ravishing them
they killed them all with guns and swords.
After this massacre the Turkish soldiers
I called themselves with wine and what
ever else they could find in the village.
CrTELEIGH-'Tm sorry 10 hear You're
broke. Buteleigh Broke Who's broke!
What's the matter with this" Showing
roll Of bIIis) Cuteleien-' Nothing Lend
NE twenty, viii you .''-Puck.
''WHTN did l give you that promise,"
"t'n one of the last two days OF Fehruary.-
THAT shows what a fraud YOU are Fchru-
airy hasn't got the last two days. File
gende Blaetter.
Ponular with army officers is the food
raised with D.. Prices Il king Powder.
The government coolers ii for tie troops.
ELDERLY WOMEN.
Did Age, After All. May Re Only a Matte,
OF Imagination.
An Enrlishman said. the other day.
that IN America the elderly women has
and this superficial OBJ