San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-12-01
DR.. Thurman Gives a Terrible Account
of Atrocities.
NO SECURITY FOR LIFE, PERSON,
PROPERTY OR HONOR AGAINST
THE MURDEROUs KURDS.
No Prospect of Any Improvement
In TIE Situation so Long as the
Present Fanaticsl Governor
Remains in Power.

ing is another chapter in the Ar
menian atrocities, which the Asso.
ciated Press is able to furnish ex-
clusively to its newspapers.
DR.. G. Thurman, who was one of
the Armenian physicians at Mar
sovan, Asia Minor, was sentenced
to death and forced to undergo ter
rible and disgusting tortures and
was finally released through the
intervention of Great Britain
in January 1893, has furnished the
Associated Press today with the
latest details Of the Turkish out
RACES which have just come into
his possession.
DIR. Thurman writes: at was
necessary that the blood OF thous.
ands should be shed in order to
bring the Armenian question on
the tapis, but it is almost impossi.
BILE to get full details, the guilty
Turk preventing every possible
scrap of news. However, | heard
the following:
"The chief of police OF Moosh,
which is the headquarters of the
Sasshoun district,wen with mum.
Der Of gendarmes to the village Of
Thourig and nailed the head man
and some other heads downwards
to posts, beating them and drench-
ing them alternately with water.
The chief OF police then attempted
to dishonor the wife of one of his
victims when the unfortunate
woman, selling a knife, plunged it
into the chiefs brain, whereupon
the gendarmes made general at
tack. Thirty Of the people were
take n to prison. The whole village
of Thourig was charged with sedi-
tion and the gendarmes naturally
were not reprimanded as they were
only carrying out the orders of
their superiors.
"The Armenian villages on the
plains of Moosh and Bitlis, in the
vicinity of Sassoun and Van,
have been fired and their
streets made to run with blood.
From Marig over 100 oxen and
1000 sheep have been driven of,
and the same has occurred at Col.
ossig and Havaborig. The villages
OF Kosloo and Sheik Agoob have
been sacked by the Turks and two
young girls were made captives.
At another village a miller was
burned alive.
At Ponzashiek three Armenians
were murdered. This is only a
daily tale of the horrors in the
villages on the plains of Mossh. II
these authentic details come from
the villages on the open plain,
what must be the truth in distant
places in the mountains of Sas-
shoun?
ain the village OF Baghesig III
Kurds appeared, ostensibly for the
purchase OF supplies, eating, drink
ing and carousing all day. They
plundered the village, robbed the
church OF it's vessels and rode
away.
con the following day the band
of Kurds raided the village OF Fa-
rogh and stole fifty head OF cattle
and a herd of sheep belonging to
the celebrated monastery OF Va
raka.
"In the village OF Daghvein, two
youths were openly butchered by
Kurds before the eyes Of their
helpless relatives. l could give
pages and pages Of such horrors
done to my people. None OF these
wrengs have been redressed nor
will they be 80 long as Bahri Pasha,
himself a Kurd, remains gov
ernor general OF Van. He
is the greatest enemy Of the Arme.
nian race. When the Porte tried
to hinder the Armenians from emf
grating to Russia and Persia this fe-
rocious fanatic explained that the
Porte could get rid of the christians
and at the same time get their land.
"Since October 1898 one hundred
and seventy-nine families have
emigrated from Agapac to Persia.
Recently Bahri Pasha made tour
of that district and confiscated all
the property of absent Armenians,
including those who had gone
away on business. Those who re-
turned were thrown into pri-
son. In order to support Bahrl
Pasha's exterminating policy a
81. J., l. nj