Connecticut western news., 1894-12-06
AWFUL MASSACRE.
ARMENIAN REFUGEES TelL or THE
 TURKISH ourRAGES.

TURKISH ouTRAeES
 Thirty-two Towns wvr~ Devastated by tho
 Soldiers of th. sultan. Who pccorat,s
 fasha Who Participated In th. natchsry.
 Inheman Bsre.ritic..
 ArHEsr. Dec IA nswupapor ropre. sentative met 90 Armenian rsfug,es who arrived here rum. Armenia after jour my full ofharc.hips and suffering Ss. curing the servites of a flrst class Inter pretsr. be gathered tho Arnenlans toReth. CT at a con venicnt plscw and after rOllev- ing thcir pressing necessities the In nterpret- CT questioned the unfortunate rcfu9eea concerning tho terd3le events which have occurred In Armenia and of whioh thry had In number of oaxes been eye witnesses. With every mark of horror and indignation the Armenisns cold the interprcter of the terrible scenes they had witnessed. The latter thoroughly oross questioned the fugitivss In order that thsre should be no doubt as to the so- ouracy of their stories
 Ths~c Armenians arc the first thet have escaped from the districts where the mas sacres have occurred and 10 is believed shat even worse remains to he cold. aa tho horrors recorded are understood to have lasted for A long time after this party of ArmsnlAns fed from the blood stained districts. Most of ths persons who told their stories escaped from Moo~h. Bitlis and Sasaoup. taking with them what lit. ale they could carry and making their way with the greatest difficulty to the Russo Turkish frontier and going to krivan and ktohmisdsin. The latter place is tho ecclesiastical capital Of Ar meniA although it ts situated iA mtica west of Erivan, in tho Russian domin- iona. It Is only es miles from Mount Ararat At Etohmiadsln tho chief of the Armenian church residea He im termed the oathoiiocs, or prlinate of tho Arme- nlAn church.
 Several Armenian women escaped from ths villages with the party which has ar rived here, but when near ErEeroum they died from the effects of ssber wounds in. nieted upon them before their escapa
 The-second Massacre.
 For about IS months. the Armenian refugees say. the province of Sassoun hss been surrounded by Turkish troops. and nobody has been allowed to enter it or to leave. About four months ago tho Turk. ish authorities learned that the inhabss- ants of NArtomis. a village outside the frontier of Sassoun. were sending for the neoossArics of life to the villa 70 of Dn,- vorig. Such comm unioation between the two villages being prohibited. she Turks mnssaered noarly nli the inhabitants of Vartemis. This wns the second masssore to'ooour. The first took place about a year ago
 Ono of the refugees s man named Rhadjik. states that his uncle and aunt wero among the killed. the latter being violated previous to being put to death. He adds that an Armenian pricst named kcvont was killed for refusing Co celebrate Turkish rites in his church at VArtcmis. The villa contained 3ab Ar menian houses before the Turks attacked | i1 but whom the fuaitives left only 25 houses remained standing
 Further atrocities were committed by tho Turks at the village of keliehusen. Before dawn this place was surrounded by soldiers and while the inhabitants wore still asleep t was set on fire Al Kslishuzen the soldiers killed the Ar. msnian priest MarHos, who. with go othor inmates of house. was burnod Co death, the soldiers preventing anybody from escaping from tho hurnln dwelling [. Dalvorig, 10 appears Is the lar est VII. age in the province of SNssoun, and It's inhabitants whom they learned of tho hor- TOTS perpetreted by the Turks at NRrtem. Ia attacked the Turks on the frontier The Turkish commander eventually sent I2 soldiers ipsS- h. ,---s-l in order Co learn what had occurred. The ArmsnianS. filled with indienation at the atrocities committed by the Turks at vArtsmis st- tackled this detachment of Turkish sol. disrs and put them sll to death.
 Whom the Turkish commander heard of the death of his soldiers. he determinsd upon averaging them In the most bloody manner possible. A strong force of Turk ish troops was scnt to the villa .a wi h artillery, and tho massacre began. The ohief of the villa e of Cheney was captured by the soldiers and bound to his two dnuahte All three wore then soalded to death with boiling water. The number of villages devastated in this mannor is said to ee over aa. The Armcnisns fed in every possible direo- ton, but many Of them wore captured hy tbe Turkish troops before they could get away and taken to prison