Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-06-19
DETAILS OF CRUELTY
Refugees Bring Horrible
Tales from Armenia.
STOOD BY THEIR FAITH.
Many Armenians We're Butchered for
Refusing to Give Up the Faith
CT Their Fathers.
STOOD BY THEIR FAITH.


A rehearsal Of the sassoun massacre has
been made by refugees. The story has
been taken in detail and forwarded for
publication In the United States. 1t comes
from Bitlis In the mountain region OF
Eastern Turkey, and may be relied upon.
farlh OF DalNorig region, Hetink village,
u place OF thirty.tiVe houses, says:
There We're eleven souls In my house
and three were killed by soldiers. My
husband was shot through the head. Ills
Orother, Hurten, they Killed with two bay
tnet wounds on the head and ten ON tile
DOuy. After thus mnngllng his body they
hung IL from tree. exposed TO the sun
70 be food FOR rnpaclous birds. hhuna-
can hufungha pleads with the soldiers,
falling ut their feet, and 80 we women and
children for the iuost part were allowed to
escape, though other iiomadlc kufds from
the South plundered the village, stripping
etc. At Aghplg, hear the village. Nero
was burned In his house. At Turrus small
children were hacked to pieces and wO-
mans head was found aud recognized"
shammeh, woman OF the above village,
says;
There were. twenty.four In the house,
and two were Killed. My son Apknr, some
y years old, and II lille daughter Were
Killed. My father Is Chnlu, and from his
house were killed Snhae. MurdO, MICRO.
Snrkis, DCneh, mud CHAR" Her Testimony
also confirms what Is given elsewhere by
others as TO how Gollguzan woman. Hap
sch by nlIne, her own aunt, led on her four
sons, calling out Come on, my sons. 1
am ready To sacrifice you to the race" In
the end She was killed, when they Were
discouraged and lied.
Der lpriesu HOhnnncs OF seminal and
Der Bcdrase OF Geellusan were her uucles
and she like others, says:
Tile eyes OF Der liedrase were dug out
and forty bayonet wounds inflicted. Der
Hohannes asked for few minutes TO pray,
MAD was told u he would change his faith
he would not be Killed.
Il can't lie said, but my people are
free to do rs they Ike As they. loo, re-
fused TO change their faith they were bay
oneted Into the long ditch they had been
forced TO dig The soldiers took out Der
H9hannes eyes, seized his hands and com
PEELED him to dance. Not only was he de-
prlved of his beard the Insignia OF his
prlestly Office, but the cruel creatures took
along with the razor some of the skin anu
flesh as wei. Having pierced his throat
they forced him to drink water when 1t
gushe1 from the ghustly cut down on either
side. His head were Kicked this way and
That ms If u were n foot ball. Human
flesh taken from some Of the niangled
people was put Into his mouth. He, too,
was pitched Into the ditch with more than
two score men that had the promise of
safety " they would cense resistance and
surrender. Independent testimony re-
specting the terrible torture inflicted on
this priest by others Is said 10 confirm the
above account.
a woman. Khnzgam. tells how her broth
err aud her husband were bnyohetcd Into
the ditch grave and her brothers. wife rip
ped up, child put on her breast and the
two bayOneted together 4"
Enmo Geligusan, 20 years old, gives indie
pendent testimony confirming what was said
above by Shammeh Az 10 the killing from
their family Sahag, Mard0. MagrO. Sarcas.
Doneh and Ghazar, and adds how Magro
pleaded with the soldiers to take his pet boy
from him to a distance 40 he might not see
them Kill his father. She also confirms the
torture and death Of Arke vartedob pre-
late higher than priosu. who was her
nephew. She. as also Marian OF 30 years.
tostnes as to how lloyseh Of shrink was
nearly beheaded. his face mangled. while his
companion, Marian, tells how her husband
Ghazar. was also pitched into the ditch and a
2-year-old boy burned In the house. They
both tell how Inglesgulan, a i-year-old boy
son of Hebo. was sacrificed on a FIRE made
for the purpose by the soldiers. Marian saw
from her hiding place the soldiers hang from
tree and fay alive one Ilarten and there
he was left hanging. his groans being heard
for days, a prey to rapacious birds and the
scorchlng sun. Both Of them tell how brave
vartan was killed, being pursued by nine
soldiers. who mangled him, scrapng skin and
| flesh from his face, thrustng ne5h from his
own person into his mouth.
Burfo Of Bitlls tells thrilling story. Her
| husband Lilo, was literally hacked to pieces,
| the remains Of which she could only gather
| up for some sort Of burial after twelve
days. Her 2-year-old baby boy was snatched
from her arms to be stabbed to death; her
| daughter OF 10 years. Aghrout by name. fell
| down dead from fright while she tIurfol
made her escape. Her husbands brother was
also Killed.
and discovered ear tells how for two days he
| shouldered his aged father, carrying him this
| way and that to save him, but In the end Al
| the plea Of his father to save at least himself
| put him down and ran only to look back and
| see them hacking the old man TO pieces.
Grages Of ntlls tells how his father was
| mangled with the sword and how his aunt
was disembowled with the usual CHASTITY
| urnr