The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-11-28
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Consents to Additional Foreign Guardships in the Phosphorus Refuses m Ohered iOan-TObacco Reggie Ready to Advance G1,ooO,OOO Sterling.
 London, Nov. 27.--The correspondent of the United Press in Constantinople telegraphs under date of November 26 that as result of the advice of the eultans ministers, Tewfk Pacha the Turkish foreign minister, informed Sir Philip Currie, British ambassador, yes terday that the sultan had decided to grant the permit applied for by the powers to double the number of foreign guard ships in the Bosphorus.
 Paris, Nov. 27.--A dispatch from Con stantinople states that the porte has de- clined the offer of the tobacco Reggie of a loan of G1,OOO,OOO sterling in considera- tion of an extension of the concession enjoyed by the Reggie.
 Berlin, Nov. 27.--A dispatch to the Cologne Gazette from Constantinople says that new section of the Anatoli- an railway from Adum-Karahisiar to Akshehr was opened yesterday. The section is sixty miles long and has five stations.
 Boston, Nov. 27.-An American resid- ing in eastern Turkey describes the re- cent massacre at Erzeroum, in letter 
 received here, as follows:
 ''The thing had been threatening for several weeks, but we judged that with the presence of Shaklr Pacha and the new vali, Ravuf Pacha, this city might escape, but it did not
 Tt soon became apparent that the soldiers had reserved the right of plum der. The soldiers who were at the head of our street, apparently to guard it., broke open three or four houses within a stones throw of US and carried off everything found in them. We saw loads and loads of plunder carried by soldiers. There was a large number of women engaged in the same work. One Armenian escaped with a slight dagger wound in the back. The affair began shortly after noon and continued until very near sundown about six hours.
 About dusk a couple of refugees came under guard from the govern ment. They report that 400 or 800 took refuge tieere. The vali and the drago- mans of the consulates came to them and talked to them encouragingly.
 "The vali said: If you please, remain here tonight and I will feed you, or, If you prefer, I will give you escort to your homes. Many of them preferred the latter. Their names and the names of the escort were taken down, and they were sent home. These men saw a number of corpses in the streets and very many plundered shops.
 "The night passed quietly, occasional firing in other parts of the city keeping us on the qui vive. We got Into com munication at once with the consul, and finally got a guard of six soldiers. The morning revealed a dreadful state of things. The missing began to come in. The stories of hairbreadth escapes and thrilling experiences and horrible mur- ders were sickening in the extreme. An Armenian and two sons and two other men blockaded the door of the shop, entered the cellar and dug with their hands through two walls and got the favor of a Turk. They lay for eight cen hours squeezed into a small, damp place.
 "They escaped with their lives, but the shop was plundered of $6,000 worth of goods. Two others, after several narrow escapes, hid in some hay and 1T, '. a1n and then got off. One man was called to the door by an officer, who professed to be friendly, and was cut down in cold blood Others were cruelty miur- dered The death roll must be toward 300, if not more. Between fifty and six ty wounded are in the hospital. Two hundred were gathered in the Armenian cemetery, some of them most horribly mutiIated There must be many wound ed in the different houses. The plum dering of the shops and houses was wholesale
 "It made our hearts bleed to see the state of things, rubbish scattered about the street, the doors broken open and the houses cleared from ceiling to cellar All sorts of rumors are about of anoth- CT bloody attack being determined on The people are in an awful state o1 dread. I did what I could to reassurt them. The collection of dead goes on 316 being collected in the graveyard The pillaged houses are to be counted by the hundreds. No house which was attacked was left till 1t was emptled en. tireIy of everything movable.
 "One heartrending scene was the fol lowing: The battered door was pushed aside which admitted us to a long passageway. The door at the end of tht passageway was in splinters, and ad mitted us to the lower room or l1itcher of the house. Tn the middle of thi small room, lying side by side on ; mat, were the bodies of two yount women, almost naked, and a light GOV ering thrown over their heads, A grte stricken woman came forward ant answered the first question by removtn! the covering from the bodies. The heaC and face of one was covered with blood 5 and she was also badly wounded in tn hand. The other had a bullet wount through the abdomen from the righ side. A companion of these two hat been carried off, and was laying dead il another house. Their lives were sacri feed in defense of their honor.
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