Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1895-12-19

missed that another massacre had COM
menced, and shops in the vicinity of
the disturbance were closed with as
founding rapidity. The alarm spread
and the people, filled with vague ter
ror, rushed aimlessly hither and thither.
The streets soon furnished scene of
incredible confusion, hundreds of peo-
pie making their way as fast as posi-
BILE towards Galata and Pera, on the
northern side of the Golden Horn. The
jewellers in these suburbs seeing the
fugitives wildly stampeding, either
joined in the flight, making for the
open country or barricading themselves
strongly within their houses and shops.
The Armenian porters who were work
ing about the streets as usual, hastily
dropped their loads and with terror
depicted on their faces. fed, as they
thought, for their lives.
Many Embrace Islamism.
London, Dec. 16.-Advices from the
interior show that forced conversions
from Christianity to Mohammedanism
are occurring everywhere. Women and
children whose husbands and fathers
have been killed and whose homes have
been destroyed have. rather than to lead
life of vagabondage, accepted Islam
ism, whereupon they were housed and
fed by Turks. The sincerity Of these
conversions may be judged from what
has occurred in Kaisarea. In this place
many women whose protectors had
fallen in the massacres were offered
their choice between embracing the
tenets Of the Koran or being either
hacked to pieces or meeting the worse
fate Of being kidnapped. Ostensihly the
women accepted Islamisnl, and thus
rendered their lives, and perhaps their
honor, secure.
It is now known that perhaps 1000
persons were killed in the massacres in
Kaisarea. The fury of the Kurds was
not satisfied with the death Of It's VIC
Tins, but vented itself upon the mani
mate bodies. The mutilation of the
corpses was frightfnl, and in many
cases was of a nature that cannot be de-
scribed.
No Refuge ut tho AltS&.
In Harpoot, 60 Christians fled
to church in the vain hope that its
walls would furnish them shelter
against those who were crying for the
blood Of Armenians. They were per-
mitted for time to believe themselves
secure, but suddenly the church was
surrounded by q great number Of Kurds.
The doors were then blown in, and the
Christians thought that they would be
massacred within the sacred structure.
They were not. Their captors took
them one at time outside the church,
and there, needless Of the pitiable cries
tor mercy from the women and children,
killed then, either By shooting or stab
hing them. The first victim Wns the
Protestant pastor Of the church. who,
as he was dragged out, bade the others,
If they had to die, to die as Christians.
He met his death like q martyr. Some
of the refugees, in very agony Of ter
ror, offered to abjure their faith and
accept Islamism, thinking thus to save
their lives. The offer availed them moth
ing, for their Unsuitable enemies, after
accepting them, dragged the converts
out and killed them one by one. The
Armenian church has been turned into
% mosque, and the Protestant church
into stable. In Kaisarea the soldiers
Joined in the looting that accompanied
the massacres.
A Deplorable Condition.
Van and Trebizond are rapidly I'LL
ing with refugees from the pillaged
villages adjacent to those cities. Hum
5dreds Of women, almost completely sx-
hausted from fear and lack Of food,
have reached Van and Trebizond.
Their condition is most deplorable
They have been robbed Of about every
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