The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1894-12-04
BUTCHERED BY BRUTES
Particulars Of the Horrible IsNefss
In APm,nia
WHOLE TOWNS DESTROYED
Every Crime WhIoh Cruel. Beastiy
imaRin ations Could Devise Was
Perpetrated By the Un-
speak able Turk.
Copyrighted isa by the Associated Press.

Copyrighted 1904 BY the Associated Press.
ATHENS. Dec. 3.-The associated press ex-
ciusnely has been able 10 give TO the world tho
facts Of the fearful atrocities perpetrated upon
the Armenian Christians In Asia Minor. and TO
day representative OF the associated press
succeeded In securing additional information
confirming the previous statemrnts made. Tho
representative to-day met 20 Armenian refugees
who arrived here from Armenia after journey
Of hardship and suffering.
Securing the services OF first class interpre
ter he questioned the refugees concerning the
terrible events Of which they had In number
Of eases, been eye witnesses. Most OF the per-
sons who told their stories to-day. escaped from
Moosh Bitlish and Sassoun. and making their
way with the greatest difficulty to the Russo
Turkish frontier.
several Armenian women escaped In villages
with tins party. but when near Erzeroum they
died from the effects OF saber wounds inflicted
upon them before their escape. tor about u
months. the Armenians say. the province OF
Sassoun has been surrounded BY Turkish troops
and nobody has been allowed 10 enter it or TO
leave.
About fovr months ago the Turkish authori-
ties learned that the inhabitants OF vartemls, h
village outside Of tho frontier Of Sassoun. were
sending for the necessaries OF life to the village
Of Daivorg. such communication between the
swo villages being prohibited. tho Turks massa-
| cred nearly all Of the inhabitants Of vartemis.
| This Was tho second massacre; the first took
place about u year ago.
One Of the refugees states that his uncle and
aunt were both kuled, the latter being violated
previous to beng put TO death. An Armenia
priest named kevont was killed for refusing to
celebrate the Turkish rights In his church at
| vartemis. The village contained as Armenia
houses before the Turks attacked i:, but when
the fugltives left only 25 houses remained st nd
ing Dalvorig. n appears 10 the largest village
| In the province Of Sassoun, and Its Inhabitants.
when they learned of the horrors perpetrated
| By the Turks at varitemis, attacked tho Turks
on the frontier. The Turkish commander
eventually sent i2 soldiers into Dalvorig 10
learn what had occurred The ArmeRisns.
nlled with indigna,ion at the atrocities commit
ted by the Turks at vartemis, attacked this do
tachmcnt Of Turkish soldiers and pus thsm "a
to death.
When the Turkish commander heard OF the
death Of his soldiers he determined on venge-
anco In tho most bloody manner possible.
strong force OF Turkish troops Was ssns 70 the
Village with artillery and the massacre beg u
Tho guns kept up . continuous nre upon Dal
vorig until practically NOS ons Stone was lef
standing upon another. it----
Solo. the hey Of Initxoun. kurd. with q de
| ta hment Of Kurdish cavalry. went with tho
Turkish soldiers to tho village Of Semal and
forcibly took an Armenian priest from his
church. bound him on . donkey, which they
drove fow yards. Tho soldiers then fred al
tho priest and killed him and the beast.
From this village selo forciby took eight
Armenian girls and sent them to hh hsem q
| Initzoun. fur|
Further atrocities were committed at the vii
inge OF Keli huesen. Before tho dawn thi,
plsce Was surrounded by soldiers, xIHi while thl
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