Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-02-20
Ills MARCH In BLOOD.
AooshIT Pisaa's Crusade AGAINST LT.
nolIal Christians.
ACCOUNT ny An Eye WITNESS.
villages burned - Thousands SLAIN
Corrses ROliing on the Ground
Tho Al, poio usd.

'Iai"h wy NH NEo WltuUEI Of Mop
shiE Fa3ha'a march OF blood, Ga it has
come 20 be- known, has lust been re-
ceiyed by tue Rspu5ho from Bioosh,
Asia Minor.
inc account iswril'cn by native OF
1hcsass5un disulrlct aud had been sent
by secret messenger through tho ter
r'ofy oi the uul,an 10 iGau,o it, safe
arrival.
h9a'hlF Plsha, the military govern.
orti the CITY 1i Ezsljsn, started, by
ORDER Of tho auilan, into the Balsoun
u'h1ticl last September iuuumvra0ls
,u'u.u villages aud 1898 lives was
'hr Price Of THIS 0iiluIaps vislt.
INC Ethiopian c0nmis-iol now In
yatlBhllua, have just reached tuo city
o. Ngg'h, tle town i,Om which thu
4'tp"9No received To dispatch. IL
"Moysu, Asia Minor,
,... Jan. n. 1895.
men lh lhc iouf towns visited by
13eehlT Fasha VIII nat bo far short of
h'ul' ihis Is from the bodies counted
"hl knpWn 60 have psrished. We
tAhh3t Leh now macy Others there
may boz.
"lhg nrst town entered by Mooshlr
wa 7hlniH. 10 contains four villages
-,.shlnihi MeLu, kJyJJk aud Dapy.
WAun our people hero heard uf the al.
lllhl OF tho lHshn, FutAUs JUhannlF,
WIN IofIy ol ih1 leading lJwusmuu,
went 10 meet him, 10 bytuUUh him ~
hhNo mercy upon them. They were
autf1unlri ~ sJliicr long before they
c'uil get 90 MoUshir Pasha and every
one was Killed. Their bodies were nut
ln tho church anu burned. Then they
projected 10 burn tho villages.
The number KILLED lu rhiuik proper
numbered G-3 nni al7 ftOm the Trst a
'he N!hatth. THOSE who escaped are
now Ia the Villages surrounding this
''"ui OUT Tue VillhyufH are themselves
very poor anu may 20 hungry.
"dUOsnir Pasha loft 5hinik TO 70 10
thr next town In the Slss0uu dislFIct.
Iuis Town IL Alyou aud has fourteen
VillhEt8. Tho people heard of his com.
Ing aud that he hal tSunty.iouf com.
paulrsi each VI ifur hundred men.
uus.jss twguty.throo cannon. rhsy
kuuW that 10 waa useless to appell ID
him, no they tlei to the villago VI CHI
because Of it, rocks and steppes, ana
there they could better esrape MIN,
they stayed in the mountains for al.
mult twcniy days, and when all food
WH1 gone aud there was nothing lslt
they hgd as best they could. Two
thousand bodice. were let behind at
Cha
"dali.GaIln was next, and because
the town hai twoniy.i0ur villages
around II, MOOshir brought KufJs,
AhmiileH and Irregular, uumbsfiug
$4,000. Tho town was deserted, Tor the
people, with all tho FOO they
could carry, had lieu 10 thr
mountains. they stayed 10 their i,st.
nesa for thirty days, gui a. last with a
iruuzy born OF munger anu despair,
they made u terrible rush down the
IA unlaiu side aud attacked tho tyfants
iuftani OF waiting ~ be killed. Patriot
\ntttn WuB like 10 god Aui killed ten
mon with HE own sword before hb fell
dead, Father BeJuas was soldier too
and encouraged his children, HuI
when hu WuH 40 last KILLED his body
was Gus la pieces anu given ~ tho
dOgs.
"AlaE was tho last wn that the
blood .ulrJY typut yisltod anu tu.s
place contains soven vllllgef-NeFe.n
Cha4uu, M0lmyah EgklE, KalaXaz,
Cheroup ami Dayidruf. Tho people
mad Tor the most pare made their
escape tut when MJHshir ana his
soldiers wen. their way 1880 b0dlta
were fund. Many mofU were burned
but tltif number cannot bB known.
MUst OF ia bodies were lun where
They were butcucrud, ana those w. no
would travel 10 this distant plncs must
risk thulr lives through tHu residential
uu1fs that 40 zap ffUm sJ many Jual.
An who escaped fslm ,bu sals0ul die.
lrot came b no villages % tho plans
Of Moosh and hungry, destitute and
ur3kuu-uu1Tird, tHoy look ils hupo and
help ami sympathy iTOA tIe civilized
world To whom tao news Ol their terri.
Die lot may come"