The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-02-26
AWFUL DEEDS.
A March of Blood-Cruelty without a
Precedent.

| precedent
| Boston, Feb. 25.-The Globe publishes
the following from Moosh, ASIA Minor
which 1t says is the first description by al
eye witness of "Mooshier Pasha's march
of blood:'
Mooshier Pasha is the military governor
of the city of Erzcrman, and started, by
order of the sultan, into the Sassoun dis.
trict, last September. Innumerable
burned villages and 1898 lives was the
price of this official visit.
MoosH, Asia Minor, Jan. The mum.
Der of our dead countrymen in the four
towns visited by Mooshier Pasha will not
be far short of $500.
This is from the bodies counted and
known to have persisted. We cannot tell
how many others there may be.
The first town entered by Mooshier was
Shinak. 1t contains four villages,
Shinak, Mesera, Koojock and Dopy.
Whom our people here heard of the ar
rival OF the pasta, Father Johannis, with
some of the leading townsmen, went to
meet him, to beseech him to have mercy
upon them. They were surrounded by
soldiers, long before they could get to
Mooshier Pasha, and everyone was killed
Their bodies were put in the church and
burned. Then they proceeded to burn
the villages. The number killed from
Shinak proper numbers 623 and 81 from
the rest of the villagers. Those who es-
capped are now in the villages surround
ing this town, but the villagers are them
selves very poor and many go hungry.
Mooshier Pasha left Shinak to go to the
next town in the Sassoun district. This
town is Ayan, and has IA villages. The
people heard of his coming and that he
had "A companies of men, besides three
cannon. They knew that it was useless
to appeal to them, SO they fed to the viii
lage of Chi, because of its rocks and
steppes, and there they could better es-
cape him. They stayed in the mountains
Tor almost 20 days, and when all food was
gone and there was nothing left to do,
they fled as best they could. Two thou
sand bodies were left behind at Chi.
Gali-Gazan was next and, because the
town has 22 villages around it, Mooshier
brought Kurds, Ahmidi and irreguIars
$4,000. The town was deserted.
for the pople, with all the food they could
carry, had fed to the mountains. They
staId in their fastness for 30 days, and at
last, with frenzy born of hunger and de.
spair, they made a terrible rush down the
sides and attacked the tyrants
instead Of waiting to be killed.
Patriot Narian was like god and killed
10 men with his sword before he fell dead,
Bedras was n soldier, too, and encouraged
his children, and when he was at last
killed, his body was cut in pieces and
given to the dogs.
Al Pag was the last town that the blood
thirsty tyrant visited, and this place con-
ains eight villages-Voyen, Chaden, Moo |
lavar, Eukik, Kalaxaz, Choroop and Da- |
Tlorig. The people had for the most part |
made their escape, but when Mooshier |
md his soldiers went their way 1900 bod |
les we're found even there. Many more |
we're burned, but their number cannot be |
known.
All bodies were left where they we're
and those who would travel |
his district must risk their lives through |
he pestilential odors that go up from so |
many dead. All who escaped from the
Sassoun district came to villages from
he plains of Moosh hungry, destitute and |
They look for hope and
lelp and sympathy from the civilized
world, TO whom the nows of their terrible
OF may come.