The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-11-28
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yelling and shots behind me. The shutting
or shops began in good earnest and people
were running in oil directions. i 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 much SIS a dozen times.
met patrol and as 1 passed the head Of
nee the officer gave the order TO fire. That
stopped my pursuers. one Of the men OF the
patrol nred his revolver very diSagreeaOly
near in my direction. However, i reached
home safely. There the refugees began TO
hock mostly women and cnildren. We
made ready for defense. but IL soon appear
ed that the soldiers had cut off the rabble
from the street, and no mob passed our
street. A few men came and tried to open
the door. Three we'll directed shots from
our balcony sent them off. 1t soon became
apparent that the soldiers had reserved the
right TO plunder. The soldiers who :sere az
the mead or our street. apparently 10 guard.
broke open three or four houses within a
stones throw of US and carried OFF every
thing found. We saw loads OF plunder car
ried by the soldiers. There was a large
number OF women engaged in the same
work. The affair began shortly after noon
anu anu continued until very near sundown'
Occasional firing IN other parts of the city
kept us on the qui vive. However no mob
ventured down our street. We Sot into COM
finally got guard OF six soldiers He had
dispatched guard 10 us the evening before,
and II failed TO come to uS.
''The morning revealed a ahreadfui state OF
things. The missing began 10 come in. The
stories of hair-breadth escapes and thrill
ing experiences and horrible murder were
sickening in the extreme. Two Armenians
hidden in some hay witnessed the killing
of eleven persons. One man was called 10
the door by an officer who professed to be
friendly and was cut down in cold blood.
Others were cruelty murdered. The death
roll must be toward three hundred, If not
more. Between fifty and sixty wounded
are in the hospital. Two hundred were
gathered in the Armenian cemetery, some
OF them most horribly mutilated. There
IL H.
houses All sorts of rumors are about OF
another bloody attack being determined on.
The people are in an awful state of dread.
collection OF the dead goes on. Three hun
dred and sixteen are in the graveyard. The
pillaged houses are to be counted by the
hundreds. No house which was attacked
was left till it was emptied of every NOV
able thing.
zone heartrending scene was witnessed.
A battered door was pushed aside, which
admitted us TO a long passageway. The
door at the end OF the passageway was In
splinters Passing it. we entered the lower
room, or kitchen. OF the house. In the
middle OF this small room. side by side on
a cot, were the bodies of two young women
almost naked and light covering thrown
over their heads. At the other side of the
room a gref-stricken woman was trying
to make bread from little flour that had
been left. She had to borrow utensils Ito
do ii. She left her work and came forward
and answered the first question by re-
moving the covering from the bodies. They
were those of young women growing into
motherhood. The face of one 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 companion of these two had been carried
off and was lying dead in another quarter.
Their lives were sacrificed in defense OF
their honor. The boxes and furniture of
other rooms were splintered. the windows
were smashed, the walls were plowed with
bullets and there was not to be seen bit
Of household goods. The floor was covered
yrif1, In house
dead bodies, an aged father and his middle
aged son, lying in pools Of blood. the house
wreck and the people waiting and hum
1.-THE bodies lying in the cemetery are
simply wrecks of human beings. Awful
cruelty was praeticed The In mae majority naye
| sword and dagger wounds, some badly mutt
| lated. Two three were skinned and
some were 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
70 Th eay wanded ama no are being Collected The
| killed far exceed the wounded. The villages
| of the plain have suffered awfuily. There
| is no definite news-only the news that
| columns of smoke told. The massacre evil
IDENTIFY was prearrangedf affair. II began
all over the city at the same moment A
| They first did no harm to women or chill
! dren, but they soon passed these bounds
| A soldier who was on guard says that the
order was given by the Porte"
American missionaries mt Marash.
| BOSTON, Mass, Nov. H.-The dispatch
| from Constantinoule containing the news
| of the burning of the American mission and
| school building at Marash on Nov. 1s adds
to the apprehension which has been felt
| regarding the safety Of the American mis-
| sionaries there. The schools and mission
aries at Marash are under the jurisdiction
| of the American Board for Foreign Mis-
| sions, and the property there Is valued al
! $4,000. The missionaries stationed at Ma
! rash, with their homes in this country, are;
| Rev. Lucius Oless, of Owosso, Mich; Mrs
! Clara H. Lee Bangor, Me-. daughter OF
! Rev. Cyrus Hamlin. ID. d.. Lexington
Mass, who was for more than forty years
| missionary for the American board in
| Turkey: Rev +. w. McCallum, Maxville
| Ont; Mrs. Henrietta Nj. McCalium. White
/ Rose. Ont; Mrs. T.. NJ Blakely. capeton
n H. Marash occupies position among
| the foothills of the ,Tarus mountains, and
| has a population OF about thirty thousand
4 of whom ten thousand are >Armenians.
The Outrage at Marash.
BOSTON, Nov 27.-Iev. Judson Smith d.
D., secretary of the foreign department of
the American board, received cablegram