The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-04-12
AWFUL DETAILS
Ol tho Armenian Massaoros Issued
BY Authority.
THE PRESS REPORTS CONFIRMED.
Tho Hair Has Not Boon Told Of tho
CruclticS or tiio Turks rcrprtratod
On Armenian Chrlstians-sistcon
thousand IL tho Estimated Number
OF tho Slain.

New foRE, April 1.-The Pillar
monian Association 10 distributing u
handsomely printedand illustrated book
entitled "Iho Armenian Crisis Ia Tur-
key" dealing largely with massacre OF
1891. its a%ntoccdents aud Significance.
Frederick Davis G%rcouo, tho author,
was u missionary OF tho Armenian
board in Van, tho contro OF Armenia,
and was recently ordered by his physi.
ciau to return 10 Armenia.
Many OF tho atrocities described Ia
this letter aro too horrible for pub.ica.
tion. Hero arc sonc extracts from n
description Of tho crca. massacre at
Sassoun, near Mopsh:
mo distinctions were made against
persons or villages, whc,hor they were
loyal and had paid their taxes or not.
Tho orders were to mako a clean
sweep. A priest and some leading men
from n village went out to meet the
officer, taking IN their hands their tax
receipts, declaring theirloyaity and.beg.
cing for mercy; but the village was sur
rounded mud all human beings put to
the bayonet. A large and strong man,
tho chief Of one village. was captured BY
tho kurds. who tied him, throw him on
tho ground aud, ~squatting around him,
stabbed him to pieces.
\ GalogEan many young men were
tied hand aud foot, laid In q row, GOV.
cred with brushwood and burned.
Others were seized and hacked to death
piece.Incal.
cat another village a priest and sew.
cral leading men were captured and
promised release II they would tell
whore others had fed, but after telling,
all but tho priest were killed. A chain
was put around the priests neck and
pulled from opposite sides till he was
several times choked and revived. after
which several bayonets were planted
upright and he was raised in the mir
and lot fall upon them.
THE men OF n village when fleeing
took the women aud children, some 500
in number. and placed them in a sort OF
grotto in a ravine. Alter several days
the soldiers found them aud butchered
those who had not died OF hunger.
sixty young women and girls were
selected from one village aud placed in
q church, when the soldiers were or.
dered to do with them as they liked,
after which they were butchered.
Children were frequently hold up
by the hair aud cut in two or had their
jaws torn apart. Women with child
were ripped open. Other children were
pulled apart by their legs. The last
stand took place on Mount Andoks,
south Of Moosh, whore some thousand
persons had sought refuge. The kurds
were sent in relays 10 attack them, and
after the besieged had been without
food for several days and their am-
munition was exhausted, the troops sue.
ceeded in reaching the summit without
any loss, and let scarcely u man escape.
Now ali turned their attention to
those who had been driven into the Tai.
voreeg district Three or four thousand
OF the besieyed were left in this small
plain. When they saw Themselves
thickly surrounded on all sides by
Turks and kurds. they raised their
hands TO heaven with All agonizing
moan for deliverauce. They were thin
ned out by rife shots and the remainder
were slaughtered with bayone,s and
swords till 4 veritable river OF blood
flowed from tho heaps Of tho slain.
Forty villages were totally destroyed
and it Is probable that 10000 at least
were killed. The lowest estimate is
10000 and many put it much higher"