Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-12-04
TBLEGRAPHIC.
The ARMENIAN HORROR.
Details Again Told by Fu8IIlVsS from
Tho Country.
villages Dssoiated. churches d nled,
Women Outraged anu Many
victims Tortured.

rontAklNo OF tub Ahhoulatou lEtht mbl
twenty Armenian refugees who at
rived here from Armenia after Jour
ney full Of hariships and suffering.
Securing the service Of first-clas.
interpreter, he gathered the Armo.
mans together at a convenient place,
and, having relieved their present
Necessities, the Interpreter questioned
the refugees concerning the terrible
events Of which they mad, ina mum
Der OF cases, been eye witnesses.
This party VI Armunians - tho FIRST
that has escaped from tho district
where the malsaCres occurred, anu Il
IL believed that even worse remains 10
be- told, as the horrors described,
are undoraiood to have lasted
long tim0 after tnia party
leii. Most Of the persons who
told their stories today eicaped
from MoOsh, Bltlls ami 5asa1un, TAX
ing with them what little they could
carry and making their way with the
greatest difficulty TO the Russo Turkish
frontier anu going TO Erivsn aud Etoli.
miadztI. Several Armenian women
escaped In tue villages with this party,
but when near Efzgroum they died
from the effects OF sabre wounds in.
iicted UPON Thorn before their escape.
For about eighteen months, tho Ar
monlans say, the province VI 5Assouu
ha, been surrounded by Turkish troops,
ami nobody has been allowed 20 enter
II or leave. About four months ago
tho Turkish authorities learned tnat
the inhabitants Of VArtumls, village
outside the frontier OF basaOun, were
sending for the nUcosshrlus Of life to tho
village OF DaivOrig. Such communi.
cation between tue two villages being
prohibited, the Turks massacred near
~ all the Inhabitants Of NRrtemls
This was the second massacre to occur.
The hrst took place about year ago.
One OF the refugees, n mau named
khadlik, states that his uncle ana aunt
were both KILLED, the later being VIC.
lated previous to boiug put 70 death.
An Armenian priest named Kovont
was killed Tor refusing to celebrate
Turkish rites la his church at Varto.
mis-. The village contaiued 1926 Ar.
menian houses before the Tutks ut
tackled IL, but when the iugitiyua lett
only twenty-five houses remained
standing.
Dalvofig, II appoArs, IL tho largest
village Ia tbs province Of Sassoun, and
It's Inhabitants, when they learned Of
the horrorB perpetratod by the Turks ut
Nartemis, attacked tho Turks ON the
frontier. The Turkish commander
eventuallysent twelve soldiers into Da.-
vorig TO learn what had occurred. The
Armenisns, filled with Indignation at
the atrocities committed by tic TURKS
at Varlemip, attacked this dothchmen
OF Turkish noldicrB and put them all to
death,
When tho Turkish commander
heard Of the death Of his soldiers he
determined ON vengeance IN the
most bloody manner possible. A strong
force OF Turkish troops was sent 70 tho
village with artillery and this massacre
besan. Guns kept up a cont au0us
fire upon Dalvorig until practically
not one stone was left standing upon
another.
Srlo, the hey OF Ini,zoun, a Kurd,
with detachment Of kurJi'h cavalry,
went with the Turkish soldiers 10 tho
village OF homnl and forcibly took the
Armenian priest from his church, after
uitEubtlngly deiillng the sacred vessels
anu the ptloBt'a hands. They then
bound him on donkey, which they
drove u distance Of few yards. The
soldiers then fired at the priest aud
Killed him and the beast he was bound
on.
In tho same village the Turkish
soldiers entered IN Armenian house
anu violated woman and her dAugh.
trr, the latter being IL years OF age.
From this village selO i0rcibly took
eight Armenian girls and sent them 10
his hnrem at lnitz0un.
Further atrocities were committed
by the Turks at the village OF Kelie-
huesen. Before dawn this place was
surrounded by soldiers, aud while the
Inhabitants were still asleep IL was set
on lire. The brutal soldiers entered
the residence OF man named Arakol,
who WIS asleep with his wife, aud tor.
tured them both Internally In terrible
manner with red hot irons.
At kelieheusen tue soldiers killed
the Armenian priest, Niargos, with
twenty other Inmates OF q house. Taey
were burned TO death, the eOldiefs pre-.
venting anybody from escaping from
the burning dwelling. The chief o the
village OF Cheneg was captured by the
s1ldiete aud bound 10 his two dnugh.
ttrs, All three were then BcAldeu +
NNHNA WIN hulllhk MhAHNs n ltAAtA-
ment VI twenty-five regulars OF the
Turkish cavalry, aher committing in
expresslble horrors at tbs village OF
bebghank, went TO the village school
anu Tavlsned tho girls found there.
The cayalrymen then devastated the
building.
lbo Bey, the notorious liurd brigRnd
OF the vlllsge OF DjiDrau ana colonel
IN the regular army, went with II dc,
lachmcnt u Turkish troops 10 this Ar
uenian Villages OF Bahlou, Hstezgsnt
and kOmk, aud at each place commit
ted every crime there 10 10 commit.
Alter driving out the men they col.
leotei tho fem ale children Of Bahlou
together, about 200 IN ali, and after
r,vlshlug them, they killed them nil
with guns anu swords. After this mas.
tacre theTurkish soldiers RECALLED them
Helyes with wine and Whatever else
they could find In the village.
The Kurdish regular troops from Xxi,
Ean anu BahTan entered the Armenian
Villages Of Al'anozig ana Aghlog,
killed tho Inhabitants and wrecked
their houses. The number Of village,
devastated in TINS manner 10 aRld 10 be