The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-11-16
EBZEROTN MASSACRE.
The Ferocity Of Turkish Soldiers
Further Confirmed.
PURELY AMAssAOREOFI FINNOOENTs

All the Louting Done by Soldiers at the
Command of Their Officers Reported
Notice to the Sultan of Joint Naval
Demonstration by the Powers.
CoNsTANTtNoPLE Nov. rs. - A letter
from Erzeroum, nearly four columns in
length, dated Nov. 3, fully confirms the
accounts previously published concerning
the massacre there The writer says that
it is impossible yet to ascertain the num-
Der of the killed. Some persons assert that
it will reach fully 1900. Perhaps a thou
sand is not far short Of the total. Contin-
uing the writer says:
I'VE have not dared to go to the quarters
of the city where the Turks are too mum
erous. 1t might be said of the tithes of
Christians who have been victims thus
far, and l have not the opportunity of in
vestigating more than tenth of the cases,
have yet to hear of a single dead Turk in
this struggle. This 1 think, disproves Of
the charges of the aggressions brought up
against the Armenans. The bare, bold
fact is that it was purely a massacre of the
innocent inhabitants by the enraged
Turks, and but for the presence of foreign
cOnsuls things would have been far worse.
" ASiA tliN NOilllllG VI Nlhb1l lllC lilAotAg III
store for the remaining Armenians will
be terrible"
The correspondent quoted, who was
staying at the American missions, says
that he has heard testimony in various
quarters that the government ordered the
massacre, which was to be executed nc
cording to preconcerted signals. As a
proof of the suddenness he says that an
A
had just gone to the postofiice in order to
telegraph to Bitlis that everything was
quiet Before he got back to the mission
the firing had begun in deadly earnest.
Bullets were whizzing close by him.
Mr.. Chambers told the correspondent
that Shakir Pasha had promised in the
event of riots to place soldiers at each end
of the street in the locality of the foreign
consulates and of the American mission,
and whether from this reason, or because
they feared u warm reception the rioters
avoided this part of the city. All the loot
ing, it was claimed, was done by regular
soldiers, at the command of the officers.
Many women hung around the soldiers for
the purpose Of carrying off the plunder.
Mr.. Chambers attended to the wounded
refugees, and during the night the mis-
sion house was crowded and as foul smell
ing as menagerie or an opium den.
Sleep was impossible The English con
sci was Shakir Pasha, who said he was
angry when he heard that the soldiers had
been looting the residences and shops of
the Armenidns. The correspondent gives
numerous and detailed stories from Ar
menians and others, amply confirming
the previous account of the butcheries and
horrors. The correspondent says that 5000
soldiers were ordered out, but that Shakir
Pasha was powerless to control them.
The ministers were in session almost the
entire day yesterday, the sultan awaken
ing to the serious nature of the position
which he occupies at the present time, but
he is so impressionable that all that would
be required would be for some palace spy
to divulge some imaginary plot and turn
all his majestys thoughts into another
channel