The Portland daily press., 1895-01-19

the village was surrounded, anu all human
beings put to he bayonet.
A large and strong man, the chief of one
village, was captured by the Kurds, who
tied him, threw him on the ground. and
souat1ing aroun2 him stabbed him to pieces
At Galogozan many young men were tied
hand and foot, laid on tie ground in row,
covered with brushwood, and hacked to
death Iiece meal.
At another village a priest ana several
leading men we're captured and promised
release if they would tell where others mad
fed, but after telling all but the priest were
killed. A chain was put around the priest
neck and pulled from opposite sides till he
was several times checked and revived.
after which several bayonets were planted
upright, and he raised in the air anu let 1all
upon them.
The men of one village when fleeing TOOK
the women and children, some 500 in num-
Der, and placed them in sort OIL grotto' IN
a rayine. After several days the soldiers
found them and butchered those who had
not died of hunger.
Sixty young women and girls were select
ed from one village ard placed in a church,
when the soldiers were ordered to DO with
them as they liked, after which they were
butchered.
In another village so choice women were
set aside, and urged to change thelf iailn
and become "hanums'' in Turkish harems,
but they Indignantly refused, preterring
the fate of their fathers and husbands.
People were
CROWDED INTO HOUSES.
which we're then set on fire. In one IN
stance little boy ran out from the names
but was caught on bayonet and thrown
back. Children were frequently held up
by the hair and cut in two, or hao their
laws torn apart. Women with children. were
tripped open, older children were pulled
apart by their legs.
The last stand took place on Mt. Andoke
where some thousand persons had sought
refuge. Tie Kurds were sent In relays 10
attack them, but for 10 or ID days were I'M
able to get at them, The soldiers also d.
rected the fire of their mountain guns on
them. Finally. after the besieged had peen
without food for several days and their an
munition exhausted, the troops succeeded
in reaching the summit without any loss'
and let scarcely a single man escape.
Now. all turned their attention to those
who had been driven into the Talvoorye dis
trict. Three or four thousand OF the De-
sieged we're left in this small plain. when
they saw themselves thlckiy surrounded
on all sides by Turks and kurds, they
raised their hands to heaven With an agoh-
izing moan for deliverance. They were
thinned out by rife shots, and the remain
der were slaughtered with bayonets ana
swords, till veritable river OF blood flowed
from the heaps of tie slain.
The timely arrival of the mushIre saved
a few prisoners alive, and prevented the
determination of four more villages that
were Oh the list to be destroyed, among
which was the Protestant or non-Mahom-
etan village of Havodarick.
This was the formidable army the gov
eminent had massed SO many troops and
Kurds to yanquish. So far as is known. not
more than 10 OF Is outsiders were among
them, and all told it is not likely they mad
more han 100 breech-loading rifles.
AKURDIsH CHIEF,
coming late with his men, found there was
nothing left for him to plumber. SO he went
on his own hook and got all the plunder ne
could from the village of Maineeg, near
Hayodarick A soldier while in quarantine
said he had killed five persons. and he had
killed less than anybody else. Another
confidcd to one that he had killed hun
d1ed. A soldier got angry while trading
with an Armenian the other day, IN the
Bills market. and shouted out that they
had slain thousand. and would turn to
those in the city next.
1t seems safe TO say that 40 villages were
totally destroyed, and it is probable that
COO at least were killed. The lowest esti-
mate is 10000, and many put it much higher.
This is allowing for more fugitives than 1t
seems possible can have escaped.
To cap the climax the governor general,
through imprisonment and intimidation OF
various kinds, has forced the chiefmen i'll
all the provinces dhe city of Bitiis alone
excepted to seal an address of gratitude
to the sultan, that the governor has re-
stored order in the villayet.
A zabtich, or Turkish soldier. was sent to
the village of Sulkhan. on the Moosh plain,
to get the inhabitants out after lotusts.
Many feeble fl ON sickness. and weak from
lack of food, he mercilessly drove out into
the fields Some who dropped down with
faintness on the way he dashed on. When
he got out into the fields he exposed him.
self, and strobe about insulting the women.