The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-11-27
ARMENIAN MASSACRES.
1t Is Estimated That Fully 100000
We're Slain by Turks,
THE PROPERTY LOSS $5OOoO,OOO.

The Loss of Life WIN he Increased by
Starvation This winter-PccuIiar Reply
of Turkish Authorities to a Private Re
quest for Information,
CoNsTANTINOPLE, Nov. 27-Now that
matters seem to be quieting down again
here and in the Asiatic provinces, people
are beginning TO form estimates of the
amount of damage done and the number
of lives lost during the recent disturb
ances. Well informed Armenians esti-
mate the losses through the events which
have just taken place in Anatolia alone at
S5O,OOOOOO and the number of victims at
10000. OF course these are Armenian es-
Inmates but there seems good reasons for
believing that the property destroyed, the
number of lives sacrificed and the terrible
outrages committed are far beyond any
thing hitherto estimated or described.
But this is not all. People competent to
pronounce an opinion upon this subject
say that with the coming of winter there
will be very many more deaths from ex-
posure and famine, and that even the
prompt collection of relief funds, food and
clothing cannot avert much loss of life
and great suffering. Famine is threatened
in number of districts, and there seems
to be no way of preventing it,
Details have been received here regard
ing the outbreak at Marash on Nov 19,
showing that the massacres were of the
most terrible nature. The missionaries
declare that many hundreds Of people were
killed and that all the school buildings
were burned to the ground by the rioters.
A telegram has been received here from
Kharput explaining the manner in which
the recent destruction of American mission
property occurred. The American mission
buildings at Kharput were set on fire sep
arately, according to the telegram, in the
presence of the soldiers but the college
building was saved.
The officials at rokat have taken meas
ures for the discovery and restoration to
the owners of all the articles stolen re-
Gently in the different villages, and with
the exception of u few unimportant Incl
dents complete quiet prevails throughout
Marash and vicinity.
The nomination of Enver Bey as mutes
sarif at Constantinople has produced an
unfavorable impression, deplorable in the
extreme, as the new official is fanatically
anti Christian and notorious for his VEN
atty
the Turkish officials to seven men from
the Kharput district who applied to the
Constantinople authorities for informa-
tion about the massacres said to have oc-
CURED there The officials were forced to
tell them that the outbreaks had been
most serious. When the men expressed a
hope that their families were safe, the Off
cials replied Better that they should
have been killed outright than that they
die of famine"
Official advices received here report the
occurrence at Aintab of serious trouble
consequent upon the Armenians wound
ing soldier and four Mussulmans
The powers, instead of ordering their
fleets away from Turkish waters, as the
sultan earnestly requests, seem to be de-
termined upon keeping them in this vicin-
ity for an indefinite period. The navies
of Great Britain, Russia Italy, Germany,
Austria and the United States are well
represented. OF course this is not naval
demonstration" 1t is simply the concen-
tration of the foreign fleets at a port
agreed upon, apparently, between the
powers.