The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-07-15
IMPORTED MUCH PETROLEUM.
This Was Used in DESTROYING the
Christians Houses and Bodies.
Even Now Armenians Are Beaten.
Robbed and Wounded and Women
Ravished by the Turks Mess the
Powers Intervene There VIII Be
Rebellion.


rkDsN fnS >IaeS~SA correspondent Of the
Associated Press.
Van. Armenia. Nay as-T'ae SaSSol,a
massacre It would appear, was one of the
msosc carefully Planned outrages IN hs=-
tory. The ey3deTzce OF this Is cincslm-
starss-al orl1y. but Il is alleged to be name
the lsSss conclusive. During the months Of
june, July and August preceding the Sas-
SNosir, massacre. the kurdish chiefs in tie
country surrounded the Sasscun region
afsi rsiTtS-GCagty the dls5rbctS IN the south
ward ami southwest ward were apparently
Unusually busy in gathering ,Ip The scat
0eresf warriors OF their tribes for an in
vasron or the SassoeIn region In July AMI
August enormous quantities Of petroleum
We're shipped from Erzeroum and Moush
TITS petroleum was shipped from R,ISsssa A
10 ErZercRlm. and SO great WAS the asran-
tLky brought over the mountain rcsasas that
u was subject Of remark to ves.,- MANY
persons. For time II .~f7te-1 - ifoaiyA,
nsthEog went over the roads to Erzer+a,m
and Moush but petroleum Now " is !,
fa1t tnat Mosish does not use a great ouar-
dEv q petroleum. herse'f nor do her rne~-
chas5ts sell mach or II to the surrounding
country. In the villages candies OF sheen
Ia oal are used for the ..gh.s. What
Moush wanted with those countless cars
q petr'o4e'uin was mystery. But the my,s-
terry was mystery no longer after the
SaS4osIn massacre. for the retroseaIun Was
Used - burn the houses Of the Sassp Is,
N-AageT1s and no creInase the bodies Of the
"ue,csed villagers Who feil Victims to the
awful hu-chery.
In burning the houses tlls petroleum was
thrown upon the woodwork In generous
quarH,-.es and set on fire. In crematfae
the dead the bodies were in MANY. cases
p'acei between layers of wood ard b,,,r,
up lnao S'ort of funeral py-re. The entire
mass was then saturated with petroleum
ana set on fire. IT is charged that living
men ware ca'ernated in the same way ~
this was a merciful way OF putting tf,s,
UlNror.urp3te creatures TO death in com
garrison Hsti the fortunes Unlisted upon
many others.
The rnasStrs- of sr-,c,s near tho sass,o,,r
region and particularly az, MolS,. rns
carried on for some time before The be-
gTnng OF the msSSaEr>e ian order that
everything might be in rea ness. accord
ing 70 the rrcgTarrnle sad to have been
carefully made out AT Consea Mt irop,a.
several weeks after HEle SasSsoun maSsa-
Gre. st Is claimed. orders were sent from,
the palace al Consfa.f,irSople for the mas
sacra OF the aithabitan-s at Moiikan, a dis
sTicr lying TO the soalSh and southeast Of
SassoUu. hut when ii was seen that am in
veasrsg'afIol OF the massacre at Sassoun
was Inevitable the osxaer, II Is said, was
recalled. and Mcdlkan was NOT molesitei
eMceIft m Ui1e Ordinary course Of persecu-
tion geneTa, in all parts Of Armenia.
In the city OF Van at this moment the TO
are 500 young men sworn TO give them
solves as a sacrifice to Turkish buhcherv
IN the hope that the attention Of England
may be more strongly called to dl1e despe--
ate situation of their people
The Arrnenlans caFlarot accept any
scheme of reform which does not have for
its fundamental principles the absolute
s-@rq -
Europe controls the reforms there Will be
massacre Of 1900 Christians IN the city
Of Van within three morsshs. The Alrue-
mans themselves Will bring this abo4It
rather than be cast adrift BIZ their fellow
Christians OF the West.
There Is no .anguage quite adequate 70
a description OF the real condition OF Ar
uferEa at present. Men are beaten robbed
and murdered. ana women are ravished
by Kurts and Turkish soBd,ers. Woe ard
want and despair asai death stalk abroad
IN THIS Ir0alYnssus hand that was once a part
o'f the garden OF Eden. The tnhabttsnts q
Van are Evan9 ON the brink of a massacre
from 6av TO day.
Van. Armenia June 5.-By the transfer
from Van to ConStantinorae OF the ad-
varce guard Of the Armenian revolution
ary party. captured In the vfIage Of TcaI-
boukla on May 10. the Turkish gover-1-
merit has taken decisive step toward
alfieting pj-bs9c excitemert I'm the eastern
part Of the empire. The governor Of Van
BaTey PaSna, has during the week adds3
several interesting facts 70 the alleged
confession Of Harry Williams. fhe leader
of the captured hand According to the
governor. Williams has confessed that the
revolutionary party which sent him TO be-
gin the revolution. has 1900 rifles N
Trieste Austria. which viii be shipped 70
Armenia for the USE of rhe patriots AZ the
earliest possible opportunity. An interest
frfg frfe.des1t 6f W.@sarns' confession. IS
made ry1.t5'sc by the governor * the fart
that ne is not British subject al al
brit is A native of The Caucasus region #
Asia, and. strangely erough. Of the vefy
district in which Bahey hiTnsecf was born
Leaving out of consideration entirely
the second revolutionary band across the
Persian border 81 IS an undeniable fact
that the Armenian situation was never
al a more critical point
Your correspondent yesterday met the
representative Of a fourth revolutionary
party with agents in Ausyia. England
and America The headquarters seem 20
ha in America. where a party newspaper
ia published and revolutionary funds are
collected This agent IS Russian Ar
rnenian. and he holds strong views on
the situation. The fourth revolutionary
party has brought no guns 20 Armenia,
nor does the agent say he has any arms
hidden in the mountains. The party's
principles however. are OF the most rad
ical ard advanced sort.
Csou@tautlrfopIe July t4-United States
Minister TerYii dinea al the palace yes
terdav and afterward had an audience
with the sultan.
France Celebrates Bastile Day.