The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-12
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MISSIONARY GREENE'S ACCOUNT OF
THE BUTCHERY OF ARMENIANs.
Turks and Kurds Had Orders to Make
n Clean Sweep, and They Did Not
Falter in Their .Duty."

NEW YORK, April 1.-THE Phil-Armen-
ian Association is distributing a handsome
ly printed and illustrated book entitled
1.-THE Armenian Crisis in Turkey" dealing
largely with the massacre of 1884, its
antecedents and significance Frederick
Davis Greene. the author. missionary
of the American board in Van. the center
of Armenia, and was recently ordered by
his physician to return to America Many
of the atrocities described in this letter are
too horrible for publication. Here are some
extracts from description OF the great
massacre at Sassoun, near AIoosh:
mo distinctions were made against per-
sons or villages. whether they were loyal
orders were TO make a clean sweep. A
priest and some leading men from one
village went out to meet an officer taking
in their hands their tax receipts, declaring
their loyalty and begging for mercy, but
the village was surrounded and all human
beings put to the bayonet. large and
strong man, the chief Of one village, was
captured by the Kurds. who tied him. threw
him on the ground, and, squatting around
him, stabbed him to pieces.
AT Galogzan many young men We're tiea
hand and foot. laid In a row covered with
seized and hacked to death piecemeal
AT another village priest and several
release If they would tell where others had
fed, but after telling, all except the priest
Neck and ch paed pu
TIL he was several times choked and re-
viyed after which several bayonets were
planted upright and he was raised in the
air and let fan upon them. -
The men of one village when fleeing took
the women and children some FIVE hundred
in number and placed them In sort OF
grotto in a ravine. After several days the
soldiers found them and butchered those
who had not died of hunger.
"Sixty young women and girls were Sc
lected from one village and placed In a
church. when the soldiers were ordered to
do with them as they liked. after which
they were butchered.
hair and cut in two or had their Jaws
torn apart. Women with child. were ripped
OPEN Other children were pulled apart by
their legs
..The last stand took place on Mount
Andoke south OF Moosh. where some thou
sand persons had sought refuge The kurds
were sent in relays to attack them ana
after the besieged had been without 1000
for several days and their amrnunition was
exhausted the troops succeeded in reaching
the summit without any loss and let scarce
" man ESCAPE. So,
Now all turned their attention 10 those
who had been driven into the Ialvoreeg
has.eped were left in this small pain.
Wien they saw themselves thickly sur
rounded on all sides by Turks and kurds
they raised their hands to HEAVIER with An
agcnizing moan for deliverauce. Ihev were
fhirned out nv rife shots and the re-
,naiIder were slaughtered with hayonets ard
sygords till q vertable river Of blood flowed
fro-r, the heaps of the rlaiu.
.7,rtv villages were totally DESTROYED and
II is probabl that 1890 people at least
moro killed The lowest estimate Is 10000
and many put 1t much higher.