The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-02-07
TIE Times.
UwOSsO. FRIDAY. FEB. Z, 1896.
Surrounded BY Murder.
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town. Any way there Is cliff command
ing the pass. and the Armenian men hav
been known to sit there, swinging thei
feet, with their old fint-locks ready, an,
keep at bay. an army of raiders. Now as
said, the excuse for this great army here, Il
that Zeitoon has ''risen." What they have
@'risen" against, what they are doing o.
what has been done, no one here knows
The telegraph is cut between here and there
We know that the rs have the fort there
that thousands and thousands of soldiers
have gone there, and it is rumored are de
feated." An army is always at that place
and the officers sent their wives by some
native Zeitoonlees to Marash, few weeks
ago. When they reached the mountains just
back of here they signaled and guard went
out and promptly decided to bring Z's In
and shoot them. The women made fuss
and said they would have to kill them too,
for they had treated them well and brought
them here, and as soon as the soldiers sur
rendered to the Zs they sent them to lodge
and board in the best places in the town and
were kind to them. So the rs got away.
1t seemed too preposterous tory to believe
but we have heard it so often we think it
must be true. The telegraph is in the hands
OF the government and they have sent mes
sages to the capital of how heroically they
have fought the Zeitoonlees to keep them
from Marash-when the Z's have not been
outside their town. Poor Zeitoonlees! Rag
ged, barefooted, with no arms nor ammu-
milton nor food, the idea of their coming to
Marash is too ridiculous for anything! Here
is a large garrison all the time. 1t is said
that some of the officers want promotion for
bravery and are making a big thing out of
the u. affair.
The Armenians of Marash are not of the
ZeitOon kind. They endure everything as
they always have had to do. Their houses
have been raided under pretense of looking
for arms, and all arms and powder are con-
traband. The AS simply can't get them and
are utterly defenceless. Any one even sus-
pected of having arms is imprisoned.
The next Sunday just before service the
y
taken to prison. He had gone around at
tending the wounded. One of our girls
another told of seeing the heads of Christians
on poles in the city and used for balls. After
one terrible day sent to ask about one of
our girls who graduated last year. CA hid
'eous old woman passed unmolested and did
our marketing for long time.) Yesterday
the girl came disguised as Moslem woman,
told me of seeing several young men killed
seven l think. A neighbor woman near
was i'll and little daughter crept into bed,
but hearing noise jumped out just as a
soldier looked in the window. He prompt
ay shot her In the abdomen. Another child
we know was in vineyard and disembow-
elled. Things went on in this way until the
18th of November, full month, when we
were made aware that something worse than
usual was on foot. During chapel we heard
guns far and near. Just after it, came my
history lecture. All the other teachers left
the room and in passing out for my history
notes l saw that different parts of the city
were on fire. There must not be panic
among the girls. Miss Blakely would be
attending to things and know where to find
us. talked forty minutes and insisted on
the girls taking notes, though the firing was
coming very near and was increasing. Leav-
ing the room at the close of my hour and
going directly upstairs where one can look |
down over the whole city, it seemed to me |
that the day of judgment had come. The |
Christian quarters, one to the southeast on |
a hill, another to the southwest in valley. |
were In flames, while Immediately in front
of us two large residences were burning and |
sending out such volumes of smoke as can |
only come from houses in this country where |
so much mud Is used on the roof and In the |
plastering. One house was the home of our |
teacher, Miss Nuritza. The grandfather |
had been the Protestant representative In |
the local government. The uncle had been |
the government treasurer. There were in |
the house these two men, the grandmother.
Miss Ms mother who was widow and had
been our matron, the aunt and little girl. |
Their wall was very high and secure, the
house, one which the Pasha had vacated for
his own use last summer. Poor Miss MUIR
liza, there could be no doubt as to what was
going on there and later in the day our worst
fears were confirmed when the neighbor
woman, whose house was also burned, came
into our yard, her dress torn from her, her
garments covered with the blood of the muir
tered. AL of Miss Ms family were killed
except the aunt. The woman brought her
mothers dying greeting to her daughter.
The little child was shot through the thigh
Ind is hardly likely TO recover.
Meeting Miss b. asked "What shall we
io?D She did not know, so said would
un over to Mr.. Lees. In order to UNDER
tand our situation 1 must tell you how our
premises are located. The mountains are
ale or two back of us and our buildings