The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-11-29
american SEMINARY BURNS
Another Awful Massacre Of Armenian
Christians.
TURKISH PORT IS CAPTURED
Armeulaus Use Dynamite with Great
Effect Tho Arrests of Christians at
Constantinople coutinue In Spite
Of the Sultan's Assurance.

London, Nov, 2S.-The United Press
representative in Constantinople tele-
graphs under yesterdays date that
news has been received from Zeitoun
that on November lS q force OF l5;ooo
Armenians under a RussO-Armenian
leader captured the fort occupied by
Turkish troops. In the attack uuon the
fort dynamite was used by the Arme-
mans with great effect. Twenty thou
sand Turkish troops are said to be ad-
vancing upon Zeitoun from all sides, 1t
being the intention, 1t is understood, to
raze that place to the ground.
Rumors are in circulation in Constan-
tinople that a dreadful massacre oc-
CURED at Aintab on November II.
The government has prohibited all
telegraphic communication with that
place, SO 1t Is impossible to get any in
formation in regard to the reported
massacre.
London, Nov. 2S.-The correspondent
of the United Press at Constantinople
telegraphs under date Of November II
that a second terrible massacre has oc-
Cured at Marash and that the houses
there have been pillaged without regard
as to who their occupants might be. 1t
Is reported that thousands OF persons
were killed and many hundreds
wounded.
The American Theological Seminary
was plundered and burned, and two
of the students at that institution were
shot, one being fatally wounded. The
hotels and boarding houses also were
plundered. The Christians at Marash
and in the vicinity, thousands of whom
are destitute. have appealed for aid.
A despatch received in COnstantinople
from Aloppo. under Mondays date,
says an outbreak Is aDprehended at
Van, and reliable kilograms from other
sources say that outbreaks continue
with the purpose of wiping out the
Armenians. 1t is impossible to rely
for aid from Sassoun. those advices
state, the relief work there having
ceased. The Kurds are again attack
ing the people under the belief that
they are acting under orders from the
government.
Neiidoff Warns tho Sultan.
NJ. Nelidoff. the Russian ambassador
to Turkey, has had an audience with
the sultan. during which he warned
him that II serious disturbances should
occur at Constantinople the foreign
fleets would penetrate the Dardanelles.
The sultan admitted to NJ. Nelidoff
that the powers had right to the ad-
mission of second guardship to be
quest that they should not insist upon
that right. He urged that the prom
ised reforms were progressing. and
that the approach of an era Of reform
was shown by the appointment of six
inspecting judges, Of whom three were
Christians.
Despite the assurance Of the sultan
to the contrary the arrests of Armen-
ians in Constantinople has been re-
newed. though there Is no sign of any
uprising or resistance to the laws on
the part Of Armenians In Constanti-
nople. Thousands of them, however,
are reported to have been frightened
into conversion to Moslemism.
Shocking Case nt Erzcroum.
A resident of ErZeroum writes as fol-
lows to a friend in Constantinople: The
people are In an awful state of dread
The collection Of the dead still goes on
The pillaged houses are numbered by
hundreds.
One heart-rending scene was the fol-
lowing: The battered door was pushed
aside which admitted us to long pas
sage door. The door at the end of the
passage way was in splinters and ad-
mitted us to the lower room or kitchen
of the house. Here most horrible
sight confronted us. In the middle OF
this small room, lying side by side on a
mat were the bodies Of two young wo-
men, almost naked, and light cover
ing thrown over the heads. At the
other side of the room a grief-stricken
woman was trying to make bread from
a little flour that had been left. She
left her work and came forward and
answered the first question by remov-
Ing the covering from the bodies. This
revealed q most CHASTITY sight. The
bodies were those Of two women just de-
veloping into womanhood. The head
and face Of one was covered with blood
She also had horrible wound In the
hand. The other was SHOT through the
abdomen. A companion of the two had
been carried of and was lying dead ir
neighboring house. Their lives were
sacrificed in defence of their honor.
The scene in the cemetery was awful
men, were lying there. They were
simply wrecks Of human bodies. Awfu
| cruelty was practiced, two or three ol
| the bodies had been skinned and some
had been burned with petroleum. A
great many women are missing. It II
impossible to get at any definite figures
| but the number must be very close to g
| thousand.
Call for Assistance.
Boston. Nov. 2s-This evening Rev
Judson Smith, d. D., secretary Of the
| foreign department of the American
board. received a cablegram from q
representative Of the board in Con-
stantinople as follows:
Induce red cross association to en-
| ter into relief work as in war times
Urgency extreme for action. -Four
hundred thousand people destitute. Or.
dinary channels Of relief blocked"
BODIES ON THE. DERELICT.
Cargo Of Corpses ON tho Shanty Boa