St. Paul daily globe., 1895-11-28

der to fire. That stopped my pursuers.
One of the men of the patrol fired his
revolver at Cnce, dreadfully near in
my direction. However, I reached
home safely. There the refugees be-
gan to flock, mostly women and chill
dren. We made ready for defense, but
it soon appeared that the rioters had
cut off the rabble from the street and
no mob passed our street. A few men
came and tried to open the door. Three
well directed shots from our balcony
sent them off. 1t soon became appar-
ent that the rioters had reserved the
right to plunder. The soldiers who
were at the head of our street, appar-
entity to guard it, broke open three or
four houses within a stones throw of
US and carried off everything found
We saw loads Of plunder carried by
soldiers. There was g. large number
of women engaged in the same work.
The riot began shortly after noon, con-
tinued till near sundown and lasted
six hours.
'The night passed quietly. Occa-
sionally firing in other parts of the city
kept us on the qui vive. However, no
mob ventured down our street. We got
into communication at once with the
consul and finally a guard of six SOL
dlers. He had dispatched a guard the
evening before, and it failed to come
to us. The missing began to come in.
The stories of hair breadth ESCAPES
and thrilling experiences and horrible
murder were sickening in the extreme.
Two Armenians hidden in some hay
witnessed the killing of eleven per-
sons. One man was called to the door
by an officer who profcesed to be
friendly and was cut down in cold
blood. Others were cruelty murdered.
The death roll must be toward 3OO if
not more. Between fifty and sixty
wounded are in the hospital The peo-
pie are in an awful state of dread.
The collection of the dead goes on.
Three hundred and sixteen bodies were
brought to the Armenian grave yard.
The pillaged houses are to be counted
by the hundreds. No house which was
attacked was left until it was emptied
of every movable thing.
"One heartrending scene was the fol-
lowing: A battered door was pushed
aside, which admitted us to a long
passa geway. The door at the end of
the passageway was of special interest.
Passlng 1t we entered the lower room
or kitchen, of the house. In the middle
of this small room, lying side by side
on mat, were the bodies of two young
women, almost naked, and light COW
ering thrown over their heads. At the
other side of the room a grief-stricken
woman was trying to make bread from
a little -four that had been left. She
had to borrow utensils to do it. A
companion Of the two young women
had been carried off and was lying
dead in another house. We passed
through the ruins of some other rooms.
The furniture was in splinters and the
windows smashed. The walls were
ploughed with bullets. The floor was
covered with big patches of blood.
Awful cruelty was practiced. Two
or three victims were skinned, and
some were burned with kerosene. A
great many women are missing. Very
many of the dead have been disposed
of by the Turks themselves. The viii
lagos of the plain have suffered
awfully. No definite news-only the
news that columns Of smoke told The
massacre evidently was q prearranged
affair. 1t began all over the city at
the same moment"