Evening star., 1895-04-11
An American Missionary's Story Of
the Armenian Massacres.
ATROCITIES TOO HORRIBLE FOR PRINT
Loyal and DisIoyaI Villagers Treated
Alike.
KILLED BY THE THOUSAND

NEW YORK, April 1.-THE Phil-Arme-
nian Association is distributing a letter
dealing largely with the massacre of 1894,
its antecedents and significance, from
Frederick Davis Greene. who was a mis-
sionary Of the American board in Van, the
center Of Armenia, and was recently or
dered by his physician to return to Amer
lea.
Many of the atrocities described in this
letter are too horrible for publication. Here
are some extracts from description of the
great massacre at Sassoun, near Mooshko:
mo distinctions were made between per-
sons or villages as to whether they were
loyal and had paid their taxes or not. The
orders were to make a clean sweep. A
priest and some leading men from
one village went out to meet an
officer, taking in their hands their
tax receipts. declaring their loyalty and
begging for mercy, but the village was sur
rounded and all human beings put to the
bayonet. A large and strong man, the chief
Of one village, was captured by the Kurds,
who tied him, threw him on the ground,
and, squatting around him, stabbed him to
pieces
"At Galogozan many young men were
tied hand and foot. laid in a row, covered
with brushwood and burned alive. Others
were seized and hacked to death piecemeal.
"At another village a priest and several
leading men were captured and promised
release IL they would tell where others had
fed, but after telling all but the priest were
killed. A chain was put around the priests
neck and pulled from opposite sides till he
was several times choked and revived, after
which several bayonets were planted up
right and he was raised in the air and let
fall upon them.
1.-The men Of one village, when fleeing.
took the women and children, some five
hundred in number. and placed them in a
sort OF grotto in ravine. After several
those who had not died of hunger.
Sixty young women and girls were Sc
lected from one village and placed in q
church. when the soldiers were ordered te
do with them as they liked, after which
they were butchered.
children were frequently held up by the
hair and cut in two or had their jaws
torn apart. Women with child were ripped
| open. Other children were pulled apart by
their legs.
1.-The last stand took place on Mount An.
doke, south of Moosh. where some thou
sand persons had sought refuge. The
| Kurds were sent In relays to attack them
and after the besieged had been without
food for several days and their ammunf
| ton was exhausted the troops succeeded
| in reaching the summit without any loss
and let scarcely a man escape.
Now all turned their attention to those
who had been driven into the Talvoreee
| district. Three or four thousand of the
| besieged were left in this small plain
When they saw themselves thickly sur
| rounded on all sides by Turks and kurds
| they raised their hands to heaven will
an agonzing moan for deliverance. They
were thinned out by rifle shots, and the
remainder were slaughtered with bayonet.
| and swords till veritable river Of blood
| flowed from the heaps of the slain.
Forty villages were totally destroyed
| and it is probable that 10000 at least were
killed The lowest estimate is 10000. ant
many put 1t much higher"
LONDON. April 1.-THE correspondent
! of the Daily News records the arrival al
! Moush, Armenia, of the Rev. Mr.. Cole and
| Miss Ely, from Bitlis, after a perilous
sledge journey. Their purpose in visiting
Moush is to communicate, through the
British delegates on the Turkish commits
| sion, with Mr.. A. W. Terrell, the American
| minister to Turkey, on the perilous con-
| dition of the American mission at Bitlls.