Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-11-28

Boston. November 27-The following
is a condensation Of letters received in
Boston, descriptive of the recent mas
sacres in Erzeroum, Eastern Turkey:
q do not think much killing was
done" says the writer. 'but very great
deal Of piunder was carried off. The
thing has been threatening for several
weeks, but we judged that with the
presence of Shakir Pasha and the new
Vail. Rayuf Pasha, this city might es-
cape. but it did not. 1 went to the tele-
graph Office to send a message Sud
denly I heard yelling and shots be-
hind me. ran home as fast as l could.
The firing was quite hot, and others
Who watched my flight declare that
number Of Turks followed me and fired
at me as much as a dozen times.
met a patrol. and as / passed the head
Of it. the officers gave The order TO fire.
That stopped my pursuers. One OF
the men in the patrol fired his revolver
very disagreeably near in my direction.
However reached home safely. There
llIt It| r..al ~ num- AAAR'Nif W.
men and children.
"The night passed quietly. Occasion
al firing IN other parts of the city kept
us on the qUi vive. However, no mob
yenturcd down our street. We got into
communication with the consul and fin
ally got a guard of six soldiers. He
had dispatched a guard to us the even-
+ ing before. and it failed to come to us.
The morning revealed a dreadful state
of things The missing began to come
in The stories Of hair-breadth es-
capes and thrilling experiences and hor-
rible murder We're sickening i'm the eX-
treme Two Armelians hidden in some
hay Witnessed the killing of eleven per-
sons. One man was called to the door
by am officer who pr0fessed friendly, and
was cut down in cold blood Others
were cruelty murdered. The death roll
must be toward 300 if not more. Be-
tween fifty and sixty wounded are in
the hospital Two hundred We're gath
cred i'm the Armenian cemetery, some
OF them
MOST HORRIBLY MUTILATED.
There must be many wounded in the
T different houses. All sorts Of runors
are about of another bloody attack be-
] ing determined on The people are in
am awful state of dread. l did what
| could to reassure them. The collection
| OF The dead goes on. Three hundred
and sixteen collected IN the graveyard.
/ The pillaged houses are to be counted
/ by the hundreds. No house which was
attacked was left tin it was empt.ed of
| every movable thing.
One he3rTending scene was the fol-
/ lowing:
A battered door was pushed aside.
/ which admitted us to a long passage
way. The door at the end of the pas
sageway was in splinters. Passing it
/ we entered the lower room or kitchen
Of the house In the middle of this
small room, lying side by side on
mat were the bodies of two young wo-
men. almos, naked. and n light covering
/ thrown over their heads At the other
side of the room a grief-sricken woman
/ was trying TO make bread from q little
/ flour th2- had been left. She had TO
/ borrow utensils TO do it, She left her
/ work and came forward and answered
The first question by removing the COW
er.ng from the bodies. They were
these Of young women developing into
| motherhood. The head and face of
cne was covered with blood. and She was
also badly wounded in the hand. The
other had a bullet wound through the
abdomen from the right side. A com
/ panlon OF these two had been carried OF
and was lying in another house. Their
! lives were sacrificed i'm
DEFENSE OF THEIR HONOR.
We passed through the ruins of some
! other room The boxes and furniture
We're in splinters. the windows We're
smashed. the walls were plouqbed
/ with bullets and there was not to be
/ seen bit Of household goods. The
( floor was covered with big patches of
/ blood. Tn another house we saw two
/ dead bodies. an aged father and his
/ mlddlc-agcd son, lying i'm pools of
blood. the house a wreck. and the peo-
/ pie Walling and hungry. The bodies ly-
i Ing in the cemetry are simply wrecks
/ OF human beings. Awful cruelty was
practised The majority have bullet
| wounds. Nearly all have bavOnet
sword and dagger wounds. and some
/ are badly muil3ted Two or three
/ We're skinned. and some We're burned
/ with Kerosene. A great many women
/ are missing. Very many dead have
/ been disposed of by the Turks them
/ selves. There are hundreds who have
nothing to eat and no means of get
ting anything. The wounded are being
/ collected. The killed far exceed the
/ wounded. The villages of the plain
] have suffered awfully No definite
news-Only the news that columns of
/ smoke told. The massacre evidently
was a pre-arranged affair. It began
/ an over the city at the same moment
/ The bugle sounded and the soldiers be-
gan. They first said: mo harm to
| women or children But they soon
passed those bounds A soldier who
| was on guard says that the order was
/ given by the Porte.
Boston Mass. November 27.-Rev.
/ uds0n Smith, ID. d., secretary Of the
! foreign department of the American
/ Board. received a cablagram this even
! ing from Representatives of the Board in
| Constautinople wa Philipp0p0lis, as
follows:
"The reports from Marash have been
/ Intercepted and we now learn Indirect
| lv Of a horrible massacre there. The
school buildings of the American Board
were pillagad and the seminary was
burned. TWO students were shot and
one was killed The Missionaries are
safe. Ask aid for thousands who are
/ destitute. There has been a three days
! massacre at Aintab. but the missionaries