The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1895-10-09
RIOT AND BLOODSHED.
Constantinople the Scene of Many
Wild Deeds.
The Armenians and Turkish Police Have
q Fierce ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of
Christians Penned Up, and
Many Others Killed.

WASHINGTON. OcL. 4.-SecreLdry III
ney late Wednesday afternoon re-
ceived the following dispatch from
Minister Terrell:
.CoNsTANTINoPLE, Oct 2-Monday several
hundred Armenians marched on the porte.
professedly TO ask redress for grievances. The
patriar-h tried TO prevent 1t a conflict &C.
Cured between the Armenians and
the police. Probably about sixty Turks
and Armenians were killed. and among others
a Turkish major; Many were wounded The
Armenians carried pistols. Tuesday several
more were killed. Tuesday night there we're
eighty killed Several hundred have been I'M
prisoned The porte had notice of the demon
stration, which. it said, was organized by
leaders of the Hunchagist revolutionists,
whom they have captured. Much terror ex-
lists think the porte VIII be able to restrain
fanaticism."
CoNsTANTINoPlE, Oct Alive hun
dred arrests have been made ic con-
nection with the recent rioting of Ar
menians here The government is
greatly alarmed, and the garrison is
kept under arms. During the rioting
Monday and Tuesday nearly 200 per-
sons were killed.
Trouble among the Armenians of
this city has been brewing for long
time past, the bitter feeling against the
authorities growing stronger as week
after week passes without the adop-
ton by the Turkish government of
the scheme for reform in Armenia pro-
posed by the representatives of the
powers The long-suoldering flames
of discomfort, carefully famed by the
Armenian agitators, have at last
broken ont
LONDON, Oct. 5.-The Constantinople
correspondent of the Standard, under
date of Wednesday, telegraphs to his
paper: The Armenian patriarch
was on Tuesday invited to attend the
porte. but he declined because
none of his followers were allowed to
accompany him. He remained at the
patriarchate shut up with several hun
dred armed Armenians
Reviewing the incident it appears
that the police generally were not sup
piled with ball cartridges They were
instructed to use the flats of their
swords and the butts of their
rifles. Such provocation as they
gave in the first instance was verbal
The Armenians fred first. With the
exception of the massacre of the pris-
ers the most violence was committed
by the Softas and the lowest
class of Moslems, none of whom
however, appear TO have been arrest
ed or otherwise checked.
CoNsTANTINoPLE, Oct THE result
of the conference held by the foreign
diplomats here to consider the situa-
ton arising from the rioting on Mon
day and Tuesday, was that the Drago-
mans of the several embassies
and legations were directed to
protest to the foreign minister against
the excuses of the police and equally
against the barbarity OF the Mussul-
man mob in regard to the arrested
and wounded Armenians, several
of whom were beaten to death
with bludgeons, while others were
cruelty mutilated. The Drago-
mans were also directed to call
the porte's serious attention to the
whole affair and to beg the foreign
minister to see that measures were
adopted to prevent foreigners from
suffering and to restore order.
Hon. A. W. Terrell. the minister of
the United States, made special re-
quest that measures be adopted for the
safety of the American missionaries in
the Koumkapou quarter His repre-
sensations had the desired effect
The city is quiet 1t is evident that
the government has taken every pre-
caution to prevent any further dis
order, and to quen any rioting should
it occur In spite of the measures
adopted to prevent it. One of the pre-
cautions taken was the posting of !
guards around the Turkish quarters to
prevent the inhabitants from leaving
them in order to go to those parts of
the city occupied by Armeniuns.
Late Friday afternoon. the police |
were Withdrawn from the patriarchate |
and other churches and kahns in |
which Armenians had taken refuge, |
and all those who had sought safety \
in these structures were invited to re-
turn peaceably to their homes. Some |
took advantage of the invitation. but /
others, fearing treachery, determined |
to remain where they were until such |
time as the popular excitement had /
further abated.
The Softas were guilty of great ex-
cesses on Tuesday, and especially dur
ing the raid on the Armenian quarter, /
which they made at night At Too
near STEAMBOAT, the stu
dents and populace broke into an
Armenian building, killed fifteen per-
sons and wounded thirty-fve others
In addition, il is said that they con-
veyed the wounded to the shore and
threw them into the sea
1t is learned from reliable source
that more than 200 Armenians have
been arrested and cast into prison on
the charge of having been actively