The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-12-04
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Of the Atrocities Perpetrated
Upon Armenians.
No Mercy Confirmation OF
Stories Of 0utrages and Slaughter.


refugees have arrived hore from Armenia
after q Journey fun Of hardships and suf-
fcing. An interpreter questioned the un-
fortunate refugees ooncsrning the terrible
events which occurred In Armenia, ana OF
which thoy had in number OF cases been
eye witnesses.
Win every mark OF horror rnd indig-
nation the Arraenians told the interpreter
OF the horrible scenes they had witnessed.
The iatter thoroughly cress-qussHenod
them In ordsr that there sheald be no
doubt az 20 the accuracy of their stories.
This party OF Armenians Is the hrst that
have escaped from the districts where the
,nassaores have occurred, and 10 Is believed
that even worse rem aims 10 be told, as the
horrors recorded are understood TO have
lasted fer long time after this party Of
Armenians hsd from tho blood'stained
districts.
Most OF the persons escaped from Moesh,
Biths and amssun, taking with them
what lithe they could carry and making
their way with the greatest dimcuity to
tho Russo Turkish frontier, and going 70
Erivsa ana EtchniadEin, In the Russian
dominions.
Ssvorai Armenian women escaped from
tho villages with the party wuich has ar
died from the effects OF saiscr wounds In
hicted upon them before 1hefr escape.
The second massacre.
For about ls months, the Armenian
,ofurees say the province of sassoun has
been surroaAded by Turkish troops, and
nobody hes been allowed to enter or 20
leave Abeut fsur months ago the Turk
ish authoriSlss learned that the inhabit-
ants Of Nsrternis, a village outside the
frontier OF Sassoun, were sending for the
necessaries OF life 10 the village of Bal-
yAig. Such communication between the
two villages being prohibited, ths Turks
inassaered nearly all the inhabitants of
Vartemis. This WAS the second massacre
90 occur. The 6rst took place about n
year ago.
Ono OF the refugees, named Kbadiik,
states that his uncle and aunt were among
the killse, the latter being violated preyi-
GUS 70 being put 20 death He adAs that
an Armenian priest, named Keyens was
killed for refusing 10 celebrate Turkish
rites In his church at Varternis. The VII
lage contained as Armenian houses be,
fore the Turks attacked IL, but when the
fugitivss left only % houses remained
standing,
Dalverig, IL appears, Is the largest vii
lare in the province of sssseun, and its
Inhabitants, when they learned Of the hor-
rors perpetrKted by che Turks st Var
tennis, attacked the Turks on the frontier.
The Turkish commander eventually sent
l2 soldiers into Dalvorig In order to learn
what had occurred. The Armenians,
filed with indignation at the atrocities
committed by tho Turks at Vartemls, at
tackled this detachment of Turkish soldiers
and put theni ali 20 death.
When the Turkish commander heard of
the death of his soldiers he determined
upon avenging 1t in the most bloody man.
ner possible A strong force OF Turkish
troops was sent to the village with artil-
lcry ana the massacre began. The guns
kept up continuous fire upon palvorig
until practically not one stone was left
standing upon another.
Worse Than Brutes.
sele, the hey of InitEoun, a Kurd, with a
detachment OF Kurdish cavalry, went with
the Turkish soldiers to the village Of
Semal and f~roihly took the Armenian
priest from his church after 6isgustingly
defung the sacred vessels and the priests
hands. They then bound HIM on donkey,
after which the soldiers Killed the priest
and the beast he was bound to. The sol
diers then entered an Armenian house and
violated n woman and her young daughter.
From this village selo foroioly took eight
Armenian girls and sent them to his
harem at lnitzoun.
Further atrocities were committed by
the Turks at the village Of Koliehuezen.
Before dawn this place were surrounded.
by soldiers and while the inhabitants were
still asleep it was set on fire. The soldiers
entered the residence of man named
Arakel and tortured him and his wife both
internally with red hoeiron.
At Keliehuesen the soldiers killed the
Armenian priest, who, with 80 other in
mates Of the house, was burned to death,
the soldiers preventing anybody from es-
Gaping from the burning dwellings.
The chief Of the village OF Chsneg was
captured by the soldiers and bound to his
two daughters. All three were then
scalded to death with boiling water.
Schoolgirls Ravisssa.
A detachment of 25 rse1iars of the
Turkish cavalry, after committing insx-
presslbls horrors &c the village Of Sebg-
hank, went TO the village school and
ravaged the girls they found there The
cavalry rnen then devastated the building.
loo Bey, notorious Kure briannd of
the village Of Diihrsn and a colonel of the
regular army, went with detachment Of
Turkish troops 20 the Armenian villages
OF Bshlou, Hatezgcnt and Komk, and at
each place they committed every crime
which it was possible to commit.
After driving out the men, they col
lected the female children of Bahlou to-
gether, about 200 in all, and after ravish.
ing them, they killed, them all with guns
and swords After this massacre, the
Turkish soldiers regaled themselves with
wine and whatever else they could find in
the village.
The Kurdish regular troops from Khan
md Bahran entered the Armenian villages
Of Al,anizig mud Agnteg, killed the in
habltants and wrecked their houses
The number OF villages devastated in
this manner is said 20 be over se. The
-Armenians fed In every possible direction,
fut mnnv 81 them were captured by the
Turkish trosps before thew coulS eet avav