Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-11-19
BURNING And PILLAGING
Minister Terrill Has Demanded Rep
arati0n for Damage to Amer
lean Missions.
The SULTAN MAKES MORE PROMISES
Fresh Atrocities Perpetrated on Chris
tians by Turks s-Rumor that
the Sultan Has Been
Poisoned.

CopyrlShted 1879 by ASSOclaceu PreSs.
Constantinople, Nov. 18, via Sofia, Bul
garia, Nov. 19.-In response to telegrami
sent to Kharput by U. S. Minister Terril
inquiring into the burning and pillagine
of the American missions there, the porte
has furnished some information and ad
ditional facts have been obtained from
other sources.
The trouble between the Kurds and
Mussulmans had been brewing some time
| On one hand it was claimed that the Ar
menians, melted by agents of their revo-
lutionary committee, had been arming
themselves, holding secret meetings and
preparing for revolt against the Turkish
authorities. The crisis was to be precipi-
tated by an attack upon the Mussulmans'
quarter.
The second version is that the Turks,
acting under instructions from Yildiz
Kiosk officials, If not from the sultan
himself, deliberately planned the mas
sacre of the Armenians.
The Kurds we're provided with weapons
similar to those used by the Turkish SOL
diery, and ammunition was plentifully
distributed among them.
PICKED A QUARREL WITH THE ARMENIANs.
At a signal agreed upon a quarrel was
picked with some Armenians, and the at
tack upon their quarter commenced.
The Armenians, anticipating the out
break, had armed them selves as we'll as
possible, barricaded their dwellings, and
made so determined resistance to the
first attack that the Kurds were repulsed.
The Kurds were so infuriated at the
check they had received that they pro-
cesded to the quarter of Kharput, where
the American mission is located, and,
quickly overcoming the opposition of
the Armenian gems de-arms, if there were
any present, ransacked the houses, in
Guiding the eight American mission
buildings, and exploded shell in the
house of one of the missionaries.
The American missionaries escaped un-
injured and placed themselves under the
immediate protection of the Turkish
governor, who still has them under his
care.
During the pillaging it has beer as
certained beyond doubt that the Kurds
were supported by Turkish troops in a
number of instances.
Later, second and more successful at
tack was made by the Kurds upon the
Armenian quarters and a terrible mas
sacre followed.
ONE THOUSAND PERSONS KILLED.
III Conservative estimates say that from
800 to 1000 persons we're killed.
It is understood that Ambassador Ter
rill has already been assured that the
Turkish government is prepared to make
suitable com pensation for the losses of
the Americans.
A fresh fanatical outbreak has occurred
at Moosh, bat it was suppressed by the
Turkish authorities after forty Armen-
ians had been killed.
The sultan continues in state of the
greatest alarm, which is telling terribly
upon his already much weakened nerves.
Rumors of the discovery of plots
against his life are frequent.
Some of the ministers have to be kept
constantly guarded by soldiers in order
to give them courage enough to transact
business at their offices.
Throughout the night of Saturday, No
vember 16, which was most critical day
IOr Uue luThlsu oAnPlio, uho oulUoA was
sitting close to telegraph instrument in
Yildiz Kiosk and personally dictated in
to the provincial governors to
do their utmost to restore order.
WHERE WAS HIS OFFICIAL TAsTER?
Berlin.-A dispatch from Sofia, Bull
garia, says: The sultan of Turkey, Abdul
Hamid, has been poisoned. No details
have been received.