The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-12-04


,,lsd Press, exclusively, has been able
IA vi,e to the world tho facts OF the ter
,iSls atrocities perpetrated upon Arme-
ri,n Christians in Asia Minor. and to.
dw representative Of the Associated
P,e., succeeded in obtaining additional
"details confirming the statements pre-
riou.ly made. The representative to.
d,y met twenty Armenian refugees who
arrived here from Armenia, after a jour
nav full Of hardships and suuering'.
With every mark Of horror and indig-
nation the Armenians told an interpre-
far Of the scenes they had witnessed.
The latter thoroughly cross-ques.
toned the fugitives in order that there
,hould be no doubt as to the accuracy
Of their stories.
The most Of the persons who told
theif stories to The Associated Press to-
S,y escaped from Moosh, Bitlis and Sas-
,oru. taking with them what little they
cOuld carry, and making their way with
The greatest difficulty to the Russo.Tur-
I'M frontier and going to Erivau and
Eehmiadzin.
Several Armenian women escaped
from the villages with the party which
has arrived here, but when near
Ezsroum they died from the effects Of
nbre wounds inflicted upon them be-
lore their escape.
THE SECOND MASSACRE.
For about eighteen mouths the Ar
neuian refugees say tie province OF
Sissoun has been surrounded by Turk
i.h troops, aud nobody has been allowed
10 enter it or to leave it About four
months ago the Turkish authorities
learned that the inhabitants of Vnrt.
ennis, village outside the frontier OF
SGssoun, were sending for the necessar.
ia Of life 10 the village OF DalSerig.
such communication between the two
villages being prohibited, the Turks
nN.acred nearly all the inhabitants oil
Yarlemis. This was the second massa-
ere to occur. The first took place about
ayear ago.
One Of the refugees, man named
Khadjik, states that his uncle and aunt
we're among the killed, the latter being
violated previous to being put to death.
He adds that an Armenian priest,
named Keyont, was killed for refusing
to celebrate Turkish rites in his church
at Yartemis. The village contained 325
Armenian houses before the Turks at
tssked Il, but when the fugisives left
only twenty-five houses remained stand
inL
Dalvorig, it appears, Ia the largest
village in the province OF sassoun, aud
ia Inhabitants, when they learned OF
he horror perpetrated by tho Turks at
Virtemls, attacked the Turks on the
irontler The Turkish commander
eventually sent twelve soldiers into
Dalyorig in order to learn what had
occurred. The Armenians, filed with
indignation at the atrocities committed
By the Turks at Vartemts, attacked this
detachment Of Turkish soldiers and put
them all 10 death.
AN AWFUL VENGEANCE
When the Turkish commander heard
Of the death of his soldiers, he deter
mined upon aysnging it in the most
bloody manner possible. A strong
teres Of Turkish troops was sent to the
village with artillery and the massacre
began. Guns kept up a continuous fir
Ing upon Delyeriy, until practically not
one stone was left standing on another.
seIa, the Dey OF Initzoun. kurd. with
adetachment Of Turkish cavalry, went
With the Turkish soldiers to the village
oi senal and forcibly took the Ar
menlun priest from his church after dis.
gn'tlngly defiling the sncted vessels and
tne priests hands. They then bound
him on donkey, which they drove n
distance Of few yards. The soldiers
Then fired at the priest and killed him
and the beast he was bound to.
In tho same viliage tho Turkish sol.
oleri entered an Armenian house and
violated a woman and her daughter,
tae latter heiug IA years Of age. From
lhis village Selo forcibly took eight
Armenian girls and sent them to his
hGIsm at lnltzoun.
Further atrocities were committed by
me Turks at the village of Keiiehuzen.
5eioFe dawn this place was surrounded
oy soldiers and while tho inhabitants
were still asleep 1t was set on fire.
FEARFUL CRIMES.
AKeIiehuzen, the soldiers killed'the
Armenian priest, Margos, who, with
tHsaiy other inmates OF house, was
!eurned 70 death, the soldiers prevent
tnR anybody from escaping from the
oSininS dwellings. The chief OF tho
village Of Chsneg was captured By tho
soldiers and bound to his two dauch-
%", All three were then scaided to
9ei!h with boiling water.
detachment Of twenty-five regulars
~ Tue Turkish cavalry, after committing
DtasIpreasible horrors at the village OF
se9anank, went TO tho village school
~ Tau rsVished the girls found there.
building.
=, 100 Bay q notorious Kurd brigand OF
sS se village OF Diibrau, and a colonel in
w regular army. went with \ detach.
.is Isnt oil Turkish troops to the Armenian
Ia9es ot Bahiou, Hatezgcnt and Komk
s.; sGu at each place they committed every
s''1e which 1t was possible to commit.
AFTER driving out the men, they col.
,'e'eq the female children nj Bahlou,
iEssIhor about 200 in all, and after raw.
"nlhg "a them, they killed them all with
guns and swords.
..,1iIer Alter tho massacre, tho Turkish