Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-02-27
A MARCH FOR BLOOD.
Details of Horrible Butchery in Asia
Minor.
Over Seven Thousand People Put to Death
on the Occasion of the Official Visit of
MOOshir Pasha to the SOussan Dis
trict-The Bodies Thrown to
Dogs and Others burned.

logs anu ObnerS
BOSTON, February 20.-The Globe
publishes the following from Moosh,
Asia Minor, which it says is the irst oe-
scription by an eyewitness of Mooshir
Pasha's "march of blood Mooshir
Pasha is the military Governor of the
city of Eizerjan, and started. by order
of the Sultan, into the Sassoun district
last September. Innunerable burned!
villages and 1898 lives was the price of
this official visit.
Moosh. Asia Minor, January THE
number of our dead countrymen in the
four towns visited by MOoshir Pasha
will not be- far short OF 1900 This is
from the bodies counted and known to
have persisted. We cannot tell how
many Others there NAV be. The first
town entered by Mooshir was Shinik
1t contains four villages, ShInik MeZa.
Koojock and Dopy. When the people
here heard of the arrival of Pasha. FIR
Johannis. with 240 of the leading towns
men. went to meet him to beseech him
ro have mercy upon them They were
surrounded by soldiers long before they
could get to MOoshir Pasta and every
one was killed. Their bodies were put
in the church and burned Then they
proceeded to burn the villages. The
number killed from Shiuik proper
number 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 go hungry.
Mooshir Pasha left Shrink to go to
the next town in the Sassoun district.
This town is Alyan and has fourteen
villages. The people heard of his com
ing and how that he had twenty-four
companies, each of 400 men, besides
twenty three cannon. They knew that
it was useless to appeal to him. so they
fled to the village of Chi, because of it's
rocks and steppes. and there they could
better escape him. They stayed in the
mountains for almost twenty days, and
when all food was gone and there was
nothing left to do they fought as best
they could. Two thousand bodies were
left behind at Chi.
tjali -Gaxan was the next, and because
the town has twenty-five villages
around it Mooshir brought Kurds,
Ahmidie and irregulars numbering 30.
900. The town was deserted. for the
people. with all the food they could
carry, had fled to the mountains. They
srayed in their fastness for thirty DAYS,
down the mountain sides and attacked
the tyrants. instead of waiting to be
killed. Patriot Varten was like a god.
and killed nineteen men with his own.
sword before he fell dead FIR Bedras
was soldier. too, and encouraged his
children, and when he was at last k lied
his body was cut in pieces and given to
the dogs.
Alpag was the last town that the
blood thirsty ryrant visiIe ed, and this
place contains eight village, Verden,
Chaden, Moodavor, Eukik, KalaxaZ.
Choroop and Davlorig. The people
had for the most part made their es
cape. but when Mooshir and his SOL
diers went their way 1900 bodies were
found even here. Many more were
burned, but their number cannot be
known.
All bodies were left where they were
butchered and those who would travel
this distance must risk their lives
through the pestilential odors that 90
up from SO many dead All who es
capped came to the villages of the plains
of MoOsh and, hungry, destitute and
broken hearted, they look for hope and
help and sympathy from the civilized
world. whom the news of their terrible
loss may come to.
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