The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-02-21
MOOSHlR OUT TO MASSACRE.
SCORES OF BURNED VILLAGES AND
1928 CORPsES.

The Carnival of blood Opened by
the Massacre of 40 of the Leading
TOwnsmen of shiniIS Who Went to
Meet Him to Beseech Him for
Placed in the Church and Burned.
Boston. Mass. Feb. 20.-The Globe pub
fishes the following from Moosh, Asia
Minor, which, it says, is the first descrip-
tion by an eyewitness OF Mooshir Pasha's
march of blood" Mooshir Pasha is the
military governor Of the city of Erzerjan,
and started. by order of the sultan, into the
Sassoun district last September. Innum-
cradle burned villages and Z. .29S lives was
the price of this official visit.
MoOsh, Asia Minor. Jan. THE number
of cur dead countrymen in the four towns
short Of 1900. This Is from the bodies
counted and known to have perished. We
cannot tell how many others there may
be
The first town entered by Mooshir was
shinik. 1t contains four villages, Shinik,
people here heard of the arrival of the
pasha, Fr Johannis, with 2l0 Of the lead
ing townsmen, went TO meet him to be-
sesch him TO have mercy upon them. They
/ We're surrounded by soldiers long before
they could get to Mooshir Pasha and
every one was killed. Their bodies were
put in the church and burned. Then they
proceeded to burn the villages. The num-
Der killed from Shinik proper numbers
623, and 317 from the rest Of the villages.
| Those Who escaped are now in the villages
surrounding this town. but the villages
are themselves very poor, and many 80
hIngry.
Moorshir Pasha left shinik TO so to the
next town in the SassOun district This
town is Alyan, and has fourteen villages.
/ The people heard Of his coming, and how
that he had twenty-four companies each
of 800 men, besides twenty-three cannon.
They knew that il was useless 10 appeal
| TO him, so they fled to the village OF Chi
because of its rocks and steepes and there
I could better escape him. They stayed In
Z the mountains almost twenty days, and
I when ali food was gone and there was
nothing left to do. they ned as best they
could Two thousand bodies were left
behind at Chi.
Cali Gazan was next, and because the
I town has twenty-five villages around II
/ Moorshir Pasha brought Kurds, Ahmidie
/ and irregulars numbering $4,000. The
/ town was deserted, for the people with
all the food they could carry, had fled
| to the mountains. they stayed In their
/ Businesses for thirty days, and at last.
with a frenzy born of hunger and de-
/ spair, they made a terrible rush down
the mountain sides and attacked the
tyrants instead OF waiting to be killed.
Patriot Nartan was Ike a god, and
| killed nineteen men with his own sword
/ before no fell dead Fr Bedras was a
/ soldier too. and encouraged his children,
and when he was at last killed, his body
| was cut in pieces and given 10 the dogs.
Alpag was the last town that the blood
/ thirsty tyrant visited. and this place con-
/ ta;ns eight villages-N erien. Chaden
Moodavar, Eulkik. Kalaxaz, Coroop, and
Davlorig. The people had for the most
part made their escape, but when Moo
4 shfr and his soldiers went their way
800 bodies were found even here. Many
more were burned, but their number can
not be known.
All the bodies were left where they
were butchered and those who would
/ travel this district must risk their lives
I through the pestilential odors that go W
from so many dead. All who escaped
/ from the Sdssoun district came 70 tnC
I villages of the plains of Moosh and hun
cry, destitute, and broken-hearted they
/ look for hope and help and sympathy
/ from the civilized world TO whom the
/ news of their terrible lot may come
/ London, Feb 2O.-A dispatch from Con-
stantnople to the Standard says wit
/ nesses recently examined by the Armen-
| ian commission of inquiry at Moosh
/ have been anu-Turkish Five testified to
| having been witnesses of massacres of
children.