The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-02-21
PASAA'S MARCH Of BLOOD.
Thrilling Story as Told by an
Eye Witness.
CARNAGE AND DESTRUCTION
innumerable Burned Villages and
7,2e3 Lives Lost, The Price Of
Mooshir Pasha's Official
Visit to Sassoun. Dead
Left Unburied.
BY Southern Associated Press.

DI IL dshOClhtou iEOSd.
BosToN, February 2O.-The Globe
publishes the following from Moosh.
Asia Minor, which 1t says is the first
description by al eye witness of
Mooshir Pnsha's 'mnrch OF blood"
Mooshlr Pasha is the military gov.
ernor of the city of Erzerjnu, and
started by order of the Sultan into
the Sassoun district last September.
lnnumernble burned villages and
1928 lives was the price of this oil :.
clal visit.
MooslI, Asia Minor. January T.
The number of our dead country
men in the four towns visited by
Mooshir Pssha will not be far short
of $500. This is from the bodies
counted and known to have perished.
We cannot tell how many others
there may he. The first town en-
tered by Mooshir was Sbinik. 1t
contains four villages, Shinik, Mez-
rn, koojock and Dopy. When the
people here heard of the arrival of
Pasha, fr Johannis, with 2l0 OF the
leadlng townsmen went to meet him
to beseech him to have mercy upon
them.
They were surrounded by soldiers
long before they could get to Moo
shlr Pnshn and everyone was killed.
lhelr bodles were put IN the church
aud burned. They then proceeded
to burn the villages The number
Killed from Shinik proper was 623,
and 3l7 from the rest of the villages.
Those who escaped are now in the
Villages surrounding this town, but
the villagers are themselves very
poor and many 60 hungry.
Mooshir Pasha left ohinlk to go to
tho next town in tho Sassoun dis
trlct. This town is Alyan, and has
fourteen villages. The people heard
OF his coming and how that he bad
twenty-four companies each of 400
men, beside twenty.three cannon.
They knew that II was useless to
appeal to him, SO they fled to the
village OF Chi, because of. its rocks
and steppes, and there they could
better escape him. They stayed in
the mountains for almost twenty
days, aud when oil food was gone
and there was nothing left to do
they fought as best they could. Two
thousand bodies were left behind al
Chi.
Gali-Gaxan was the next, and be-
cause the town has twenty two vii.
lagos around 1t Mooshir brought
kurds, Ahmidic and irregulars,
numbering 10000. The town was
deserted, for the people, with all the
food they con!d carry, had fled to
the mountains. They stayed in their
fastness for thirty days and then
they made n terrible rush down the
mountain sides and attacked the
ttyrnnis, instead of waiting to be
killed. Patriot Vartan was like a
god and killed nineteen men with
his own sword before he fell dead.
fr. Bedras was n soldier, too, and
when he WAS at last killed his body
was cut IN pieces and given to the
dogs.
Alpag was the last town that the
bloodthirsty tyraut visited, aud this
place contains eight villages
Nerien, Chaden, Moodavnr, Eukik,
kalaXas, Choroop and Davlurie.
The people had for tho most part
made their escape, but when Moo
shlr anu his soldiers went their way
l,3OO bodies were found even here,
Many more were burned, but their
number cannot be known. All the
bodies were left where they were
butchered.