The San Francisco call., 1895-11-17
FURTHER HORRORS REPORTED.
Missionary Buildings Burned During
Mdssdcres at HdrpOoL.

Missionary Buildings Burned During
Mdssdcres at HarpOol.
BOSTON, MASS, Nov. 16-The following
cable message was received at the rooms o1
the American Board of Foreign Missions
to-day from Rev. II. O. Dwight of Con
stantinople, by way of Philipoppolis:
+ "a terrible massacre has taken place at
Harpool. Five hundred Armenians were
killed, large number of women taken
away captives, eight or twelve mission
buildings stripped and burned, and the
Armenian portion of the city destroyed.
Turks will regard this as test of the inten-
ton of the United States to defend mis-.
sions. No European or American mis-:
sionaries killed; villages everywhere desc.
lated; people naked and starving; instant
help needed"
The buildings destroyed are estimated
to be worth SIS, 900 or $100, 1000. Harpool is
one of the most prominent cities in Ar
menia, and the general feeling is that the
Turks have delayed making their attacks
on the Armenians there owing to its
strength, and fully cognizant that such
bare-faced action would at once call down
upon their heads the wrath of the civilized
nations.
At the society rooms in spite of the cable
gram the gravest fears are entertained
for the American missionaries. Nearly all
those IL the city were from the United
States. and the Euphrates College, which
is the largest college in the East, has full
corps of American and English teachers.
The cablegram was sent Immediately af.
ter the news of the massacre had been re.
ceived, and there is no means yet of tell
ing whether the missionaries escaped
eventually. All the important centers are
occupied by the Turks, and it is almost
impossible to get any. word to foreign
countries in it's true character.
Immediately the news of the massacre
was received at the society's rooms dis.
patch was sent for further information
but up to- late this evening no word had
been received.
Another dispatch to the American
branch of the International Armenian Re.
lief Committee from their special agent
confirms the truth of the state of affairs al
Harpool, adding that the atrocities com.
mitted were more terrible than anything
ever heard of in the history OF
the world. Tie same dispatch adds
that the Turks have undoubt-
edly made this their final blow, as with
the prompt action which is to be taken by
the combined nations the outrages must
soon come to close.
"A private letter to prominent Armen.
ians in the East says that in addi.
tion to those already reported that two
fearful massacies took place at Gurinder
and Mardin late in October.
But few inhabitants of either of these
villages were left alive, and those living
are in the direst need of clothing and
food, escaping the Turkish bullets and
Kurdish sabers only to die from starva
| ton. All those who are able are leaving
the country for Russia, and a constan,
stream is crossing the border daily.
At special meeting of the American
Board of Foreign Missions held this
evening it was decided to send agents a,
once to Washington and London to i'm,
press upon the respective Governments
the need of expedition in action in regard
| to. Armenian affairs. An effort will bt
| made to hold a mass-meeting this weel
| to protest against the laxity in action oi
| the civilized nations.