The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-01-14
SIrUdTf0N IN fRMENII.
Letter Sent From One Who is Familiar
 With the Situation.

Boston, Jan. 13.-The following letter
 has been received by an American who
 is familiar with the situation in Har- poot, eastern Turkey. It is dated Sun day evening, December 8, 1895:
 1T must have written.' says the writ
 CT, several weeks ago, that there had
 been trouble in Chermoog and Choon- koosh Since then it has been impossi- ble to get word from either place until yesterday. Messengers were sent, but | they were not allowed to go through.
 We hear now that Bods Sarkis and
 Bods Ghazaros were killed a month or more ago. A brief letter from an Arme- | nian woman, without date, was receiv- ed yesterday and said that her husband | and two boys were killed twenty five l days before, and she and her remaining | children were begging their bread. We | hear that the quarter in which they liv- l ed was entirely burned and that the l most of the men were killed. The widow says:
 "'There are no brethren left to care l for us,' and she wants to know what | she shall do. What shall we say? We l have no definite news of Choonkoosh, except that it is said that the destruc- | ton there was not as great as in Cher moog. Palie and it's villages suffered greatly, but the information is n1eagre, as 1t is from almost all other places. A | letter which 1 saw yesterday said that a., fa1 n 1 SO0 n Five hundred women and girls are said to have been carried off by the Kurds. The trouble began in Arabkir on the 9th of November. I had letter from an American woman there yesterday. She said her husband had been in pris-
 on fifteen days and she had no word | from him. In a postscript she says that he has been killed. Another letter
 whi ,;l I saw yesterday estimated that | 1000 had been killed. It is said that three-fourths of the Armenian houses have been burned, and all of the shops. Only fifteen houses were left. Thus we have horror upon horror, and the rec ord will continue through the whole winter.
 "The houses were not burned, but they were plundered and the peoples i lives were spared on the sole condition | that they should become Mohamme-
 dans; and they have performed the rites
 which make them such, and they are obliged to go to the church which has l become a mosque, and the Immarm is | teaching them their prayers. had a call from an Armenian this week. and he said that it was simply out of re- gard for their families that he and his 1 father did not become martyrs as their | families would inevitably go to the hordes of the Kurds, as has been the case in Holi and many other places. "A Turk in Mezeru occupies the Pro- i testant parsonage and claims it as his own. The church and the chapel are | in ruins. In Ishme the Turks claim | that everybody has accepted their faith, and I hear that the use of Armenian | is prohibited. An Armenian woman was to have been carried off, but two Turks quarreled over her and she es- | capped to Mezereu in the garb of a | Turkish woman From Diarbekir we have very few details. Cutterbul is practically wiped out, and the Protes- | tant pastor, with two or three others of that field, have been killed. There has
 been a great massacre in Peverek, the pastor and his son killed. Reduain and it's villages have been plundered. Shiekh is teaching all who remain there Moslem prayers. Horhannes, the Kilise preacher, is dead.
 ''The boys missionary schools in Har-
 poot are running and the girls mission
 ary schools are to begin when they can. A good many men are at work at low
 wages, clearing away rubbish among the ruins. A photograph of this quarter
 is wanted, but the government would
 not allow 1t to be taken. The latest re-
 port of this quarter is that eighty-one | houses were burned and seventy-one saved Forty-five persons were killed in this quarter. The official report of
 the deaths in this quarter is twenty three Armenians and eight Turks
 There Were 200 killed and 200 wounded | in Husenek.