The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-09-11

she reached village near Moosh. where
she was received and cared for during the
winter.
a woman from semal gave me this ac-
count:
4 am a member of a priests family.
My husband was his brothers son. went
with the family TO the surrender at Co
ligozan. The priest, my husband, and
his two other brothers were all cruelty
murdered and thrown into the death pit
at Goligozan, which the soldiers had dug.
We were separated from our husbands and
brothers, and the soldiers took us TO a
church about half an hour from the camp.
There we were kept all night. In the
morning soldiers came and said to us.
Come 10 camp and give your word that
you Will accept Islam We cried out,
! Never. We canot do that great sin.
They replied. If you do not, we will do to
you as we did TO your husbands and sons
last night This was the first intimation
we had of the awful massacre that had
taken place the night before. We were
terrified beyond measure, but several of Us
exclaimed, we will die before we deny
our faith and we fed at the risk of our
lives
woman from Hotenk gave the follow
ing sad account Of her own and her faith
ers family:
My children were killed at the time of
the massacre. A daughter died of fright.
My sister-in-law was sick and unable to
escape. The soldiers shut her in the house,
which was burned, and she persisted in the
flames. saw people killed with gun and
bayonet. They fell down over some rocks
and the soldiers mangled their bodies with
bayonets.
'- was one of our braves. Soldiers
shot him, cut off his arms and feet, open
ed his body, and filled il with stones.
They also put stones in his mouth. He
was cruelty tortured I saw all, but was
powerless to help. The Kurds killed my
brother. His son was with me. l threw
my arms around him and entreated the
Kurds for his life. They spared us both.
Some Kurds who had often eaten bread
at our house and were friendly to my
husband attempted to kill my cousin,
who was hiding with me behind some
rocks. One tried to shoot three times.
l knocked his gun 50 he missed his aim,
and my cousin escaped, but the Kurds
were angry with me, and beat me with
the stocks of their guns till tainted.
Another day a Kurd discovered a
friend of mine who was from Semal vii
lage. He was concealed among some
bushes near me. The Kurd tried TO kill
him with his sword. 1 ran and knocked
the Kurd down, and we both ran and es-
capped. My friend received one sword cut
on his arm.
She led her four sons on to battle during
the fight at Goligozan. She fought
against the Kurds many days She shot
several, and took their guns and swords,
She was wounded early in the battle, but
did not leave her sons until she had re-
ceived four wounds and was unable to
stand. Her sons carried her to ravine
and hid her among some bushes, but she
was discovered by soldiers, who killed
her. One day a sister-in-law and / were
hiding in a forest. Some Kurds found
US, and demanded our clothes. l imme-
diately took off every article of clothing,
including my sandals and stockings, and
threw them toward the Kurds. Yigola
did not give up hers. They seized and
beat her. She then gave up her clothes
to them. They again beat her terribly,
and retreated, leaving her more dead than
alive, and both of us naked. I afterward
found one of my garments, which, being
old and ragged they had thrown away.
We remained for days on the mountain,
when my husband found as. BY this
time the soldiers had been recalled. My
husband carried Yigola, who was not able
to walk, TO our Village, Hotenk, where
four houses were still standing. not hav-
ing been burned at the time the village
was fired. There I'VE stayed a few days.
and finally escaped to Moosh Plain"