The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-12-17
AT AINTAB,
FIRST AUTHENTIC DETAILS OF THE
MASSACRE
All the Christian Shops and $50 Peo-
pie PiIIaged and Burn ed-other
Horrible Outrases in Different
Places.

LONDON. Dec. 1.-THE Daily New
will tomorrow publish a dispatch from
Constantinople which says;
I have received a letter from
European resident dated Nov. %, CIV
ing the first details of the Aintab mas
sacre. The writer says: 1T is DIT
ficult to get figures as we are always
under a guard when we go TO the
towns, but 200 seems a low figure LOT
the killed and some say it was 1OOO,
while 400 were wounded All the
Christian shops and $50 houses We're
pillaged and many burned ABOUT
/, 600 Armenians wo took refuge IN the
khans and mosques at the pegliiillhS
of the panic are still kept prisoners
there. for what purpose can only pe
surmised." .r.
The Daily News correspondent says:
The narrator appears to nave WI
messed the massacre from the A Al .i- /
can mission. He says that all the
western and southern parts OF the cry
anneared to be in an uproar, crowns
Wishing in every direction and the
sound of numerous pistol ana gun
shots being continually heard; "a
companv of sixty was stationed III
front of the American Girls serhl IlLc,,
with pickets out to cover the appio''ON
n
we could see the Christian women
an the roofs" the writer in A1ntao
continues. ''helping by means VI
stones. clubs and firearms TO drive on
the assailants. Elsewhere the 1ut Alon
wdmen crowded forward. utterlhS
neculiar cry, cheering their men OH ~
the attack The massacre lasteu oli
most a whole day and although tIoopS
were posted around the CHRISTIAN qua ID
tiers it was renewed on NOV II ne
CHRISTIANS. however, were better pre-
nared nv that time and were aole 10
renel the attack Some of the MOS
Ienos who assisted in the defense, the
Armenians claimed, received 70 eacn.
THE correspondent Of the Times at
ronstantinople telegraphs to MS pa
per that a petroleum monopoly -
about to be granted by the sultan 10
a. Russian subject named lneouo!e
Movrocordato. whose project Is
strongly supported. the Times cor
respondent adds. by NJ. Nehdorh' the
Russian ambassador.
The applicant engages to raise
/ loan of "a. 1000. 600 100000 of Wh1cn
is to be paid to Russia on account OF
war indemnity and the remainder 70
be placed at the disposal Of the
Turkish treasury.
The Russian will start his own re-
| f1nery for Russian oil.
The correspondent also says: The
French embassy has received news OF
the pilIage and destruction of the
Franciscan convent at Jenidkelch.
near Marash Five of the resident
| brothers are missing. Some report
they have been murdered, and others
say that they have taken refuge with
the Zeitounlis.
| An Armenian professor named
! Thoumian. residing in England, has
/ Just received news of the cruel murder
/ of his sister and her sons during a
/ massacre In a town from which he
! himself was banished.
A Vienna dispatch to the Daily Tele-
/ graph SAYS that NJ. Nelidorff the Rus
sian ambassador at Constantinople, is
negotiating with the porte for the re-
turn of Anatolia of the Armenians
who are now refugees in Russia.
The Daily News this morning pub
| fishes a three column letter from a
person described by that paper as be-
ing as we'll placed for knowing as any
European ambassador. which sum-
marizes the whole of the Armenian
massacres and estimates that % ,00C
to 10000 have been killed within two
months and that 900 sterling of
property has been stolen.