The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1895-06-01
FED HUMAN FLESH.
AN AWFUL STORY OF TURKISH
CRUELTY IN ARMENIA.
The Bodies of Several People Who
charges a Rifle and the Bullet
Strikes His Two Sisters, Killing
Them instantly, and WOundinE a
Baby. .

copyrighted, 1895, by the Associated
Press. From the special correspond
II of the Associated Press in Ar
menia.)
Kars, Russia. April Occurring the
past three weeks Il have had unusual
opportunity for obtaining additional
confirmation Of the facts contained in
my announcement of the impending
uprising Of the ArmeniaEs in Turkey
next month. l have travelled many
miles up and down and across the
border in search of certain facts, and
as a result, l have had the satisfac-
tion of actually seeing and handling
some of the rifles now being snug
gled across the Turkish frontier by
the agents of the revolutionary party.
Moreover, the plans of the party have
been fully explained to me by some OF
the most active and intelligent of the
leaders of the Eastern wing of the
movement, and l am now entirely sat
isfied that, unless unforeseen and un-
comfortable circumstances appear, the
uprising will take place as announced.
The report of Mr.. Patton, an official
of the British consulate at TebraiZ,
Persia, says that in several cases the
Turkish officials in the devastated dis
trict Of Armenia tried hard to save the
Armenians from death and their prop
erty from destruction, but when they
protested against the murderous raids
Of the troops the officers read to them
the orders of the sultan, and so moth
ing could be done. Mr.. Patton has
lately returned to Tebriz from an in
vestigating tour among the Armenian
refugees along the border between
Persia and Turkey. He found plenty
of refugees from the Lake Van and
Moosh districts, but not n from
Sassoun. There are 10 Sassoun sur
vivors in Ouramia, Salinas, Diliman.
Knot, Tebriz or any other place In
Persia, and so very few in Russia that
they are most difficult to find. This
absence of Sassoun people among so
many refugees from other districts of
Eastern Armenia suggests the dread
full possibility that few of those peo-
pie escaped the massacre.
The investigation Of Mr.. Patton along
the Persian border has confirmed, in
a general way, the facts which l have
incidentally obtained during the past
eight weeks. The events of the mas
sacre were so horrible that even the
chronic NRgerdLl OI Iue AiuleAidu
mind fails to add anything to them.
Mr.. Patton was accompanied on this
tour of investigation by DR.. Wright,
an American missionary staotioned at
Salinas. These gentlemen took the
testimony to the effect that when the
Turkish soldiers and Kurds appeared
at a certain village they killed some
of the villagers who dared to protest
against their Outrages, and many OF
the dead men were cut Up and thrown
into a kettle and boiled like so much
beef. The boiled pieces were then
given to the villagers for food. The
wretcbed villagers were compelled to
eat their friends to the list mouthful.
In another village a party of Kurds
found a child asleep in a cradle. They
overturned the cradle and smothered
the shild. Then they dissected the
body and roasted pieces Of it before
the ire. AS a climax they compelled
the members of the family. including
the child's mother, to eat the roasted
pieces.