The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-02-27
Demons Of Destruction.
March of the Murderous
Mooshir Through Sassoun.

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fishes the following from Moosh. Asia
Minor which it says is the first descrip-
by an eye witness of Moosbir Pasha's
''march of blood" (A1ooshir Pasha is
the military governor Of the city of Er-
z~erjau and started, by order Of the Sui.
tan, into the Sassoun district last Sep
TENDER. Innumerable burned villages
and 1898 lives was the price Of this
official visit.
MoosH, ASIA Minor, January T.
The number of our dead countrymen 10
the four towns visited by Moosbir
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 Moosbir
was Shrink. 1t contains four villages,
Shinik, Mezera, Koojock and Dopy.
When oar people here heard Of the ar
rival Of the Pasha Err Johanuis. $40
of the leading townsmen went to meet
him. to beseech him TO have mercy upon
them. They we're surrounded by SOL
diers long before they could getto Moo.
shir Pasha and every one was killed.
Their bodies we're put 10 the church aud
burned. Then they proceeded to burn
the villages. The number killed from
Shrink proper number 623. and 81
FROM the rest Of the villages. These
who escaped are pow in the villages
surrounding this town, but the villagers
are themselves very poor and many 60
hungry.
Meoshir Pasba left Shioik to 60 to
the next town in the Sassouu district.
This town is Alyau and has fourteen
villages. The people heard of bis con-
ing and bow that he had t%wenty-four
companies each 400 men, besides
twenty-tbree cannon. They knew that
it was useless to appeal to bin, SO they
fed to the village of Chi because Of its
rocks and s,eppes, and there they could
better escape him. They stayed 10 the
mountains for almost twenty days, and
wLeu all food was gone and there was
nothiug left to do they fed as best they
could. Two thousand bodies we're left
behind at Chi.
Gali-Gazan was oext, and because
the town has twenty-five villages
around it, Mooshir brough: kurds,
Ahmidre and Irreguiars, numbering
10000. The town was deserted, for
the people, with all the TODD they could
carry, had fed to the monutalns. They
stayed in their f%astness { r thirty days
and at last with a frenzy born Of buo-
ger and despair, they n..de a terrible
rush down the mountsln sides aud
attacked the tyrants instead Of waiting
to be killed. Patriot vartan was like
a god and killed nineteen men With his
own sword before be fell dead. FIR.
Bedras was q soldier, too, and en-
couraged bis children, and when he
was at last killed his body was cut in
pieces and given to the dogs.
Alpag was the last town that the
bloodthirsty tyrants visited. and this
place contains eight villages-Verlen.
Chaden. Moodavar, Eukik, Kalaxaz.
Choroop and Davlorig. The people
had for the most part made their
escape, but when Mooshir and his
soldiers vert their way 1900 bodies
we're found even here. Many more
were burned, but their number cannot
be known.
All bodies were found where they
we're butcbered and those who would
travel this district must risk their lives
through the pestilential odors that go
up from SO many dead. All who es-
capped from the Sassoun district came to
the villages aud plains of Moosh, and
hungry, destitute aud broken hearted,
they look for hope and help aud sym
pathy from the civilized world to whom
the news of their terrible lot may come