The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-30
Belnted Dispatches Describing Incl
dents of the Recent Uprising
of menia
CLUBS USED BY ASSASSINS
WHO LAID IN WAIT AND BEAT
THEIR VICTIMS TO DEATH.
One Priest Hacked Until Life Was
Extfnct-The Bodies Thrown
Into the Bosphorus.
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received to-day tell OF shocking atrocities
committed by the Turks during the recent
uprising OF Armenians at Constantinople.
lie Temps. of Paris. this afternoon pub
fishes a dispatch from Constantinople. filed
on Friday evening, saying: AT the pres
ent moment fighting Is taking place in the
chief street of Constantinople. The troops
are firing upon unarmed Armenians. The
victims of the outbreak exceed 1000" An
other dispatch, dated Friday, says: up
10 4 o'clock this afternoon IL was impossible
TO tell the number of victims of the rioting.
Fifty bodies We're counted in the street be-
tween Dolmebagtebe and Tophanes. which
looked like a battlefield. The city is quiet
er, but firing is proceeding Houses of Ar
menians have been piIlaged- Shops are
closed and few venture out"
Another delayed dispatch says there IS
great uneasiness among the British resi-
dents In the villages along the shores Of the
Bosphorus. where a number of hunted ~
menians have sought refuge. 1t Is feared
that their houses will be attacked. Mr..
Michael Herbert, the British charge daft
flares. has ordered the British guardship
Dryad to receive all families desiring pro-
lection, and any British vessels in port
may be requisitioned in case of necessity.
There is also much anxiety in the suburbs.
where many Europeans having Armenian
servants are afraid OF being attacked. The
American College at Hissar and the Bible
house at Stamboul are guarded by troops.
The United States minister, Mr.. Alexander
w. Terrell, visited Hissar yesterday to as
certain II the Americans were safe. His
OF police of Hissar told Mr.. Terrell that
all measures had been taken TO preserve or
der.
DEAD THROWN INTO THE SEA.
Scores of dead have been thrown into the
sea in order to save the trouble of burying
the bodies. The British charge d'sffaires
has refused the request of the Sultan to
withdraw the guards OF British marines,
saying he cannot do so until the disorders
here are thoroughly queiled. OF the Ar
menians who were seized In the Ottoman
Bank. five were killed and five were
wounded. They all came from abroad. The
fifteen survivors have been sent to Mar
seilles. the British and French war ships
seeing the Messagerie liner off safely.
The Berlin Tageblatt's Constantinople
correspondent. in "A dispatch published this
morning. says he saw bands of Turks,
thirty or forty in number, armed with
clubs and cudgels. crouching in the various
street corners. planning to kill any single
Armenian on sight. He adds that their
methods were full of cruelty, such as one
would scarcely apply to the killing OF a
mad dog. The correspondent says that he
saw an Armenian priest hacked into a
shapeless mass with eudgels in the hands
During this atrocity. which the correspond
ent personally Witnessed. the police stood
idly by. smiling. while the cavalry pa
trolled the streets and kept "A careful watch
for the purpose of preventing any assist
ance from reaching the unfortunate priest.
lie Claims to have witnessed twenty in
stances or a similar character. and never
In a single case did the troops or the po-
lice disturb the aSsassins. Late in the
afternoon he met six manure wagons which
were being driven from the city completely
nlied with bodies of the dead Armenians.
continuing, the correspondent says that
the arming OF the lower classes with clubs,
In which the police assisted. has wrought
widespread evil throughout the city. Had
the afming OF the baSer elements of the
Turks been stopped at an early stage the
shedding Of blood would relatively have
feit at the apathy of the ambassadors of
the foreign powers. There is no doubt in
the mind of this correspondent but what
most or the victims of Turkish revenge
in this instance were perfectly innocent of
any guilty knowledge of the plot TO raid
the Ottoman Bank The Europeans barri-
caded their houses and lived upon provi-
sions stored In their cellars. Thursday
morning forty-siX Armenians were killed
and thrown into a single heap. just inside
the coal depot on the quay. At Galata
fourteen other Armenians were dragged Off
10 a terrible death. while an English mer-
chant who ventured TO protest was thrown
into the water. Numerous other brutal and
revolving murders are reported TO have oc-
Cured in all sections OF the city.
III correspondent says that
although IL was rumored days before that
the uprising would take place, and that al
though secret warnings were addressed to
the embassies. it was noticed that all of
the guard ships were absent from the har-
Dor at the decisive moment On this ac-
count European residents OF Constantinople
were very indignant, the more so when il
became known that several Europeans had
been killed right in ~Constantinople.
A dispatch to the Times from CONSTANT
nople says that some of the ArmenianS who
attacked the Ottoman Bank were leaders
or the revolutionary society. They carried
bags supposed to be full of coin. but they
contained dynamite. The bank officers
fled. leaving the money. which was not
stolen. Pending negotiations I'm the bank
with the government the Armenians had
twenty pounds of dynamite in the cellar
or the bank and a man ready to explode
1t at a signal. The leaders were given lib
erty. but IL is said one thousand Armenians
were killed in raids on their quarters.
A dispatch from Constantinople tonight
says: An official search OF the school at
Samatia disclosed thirty-six bombs. seven
explosive caps. several boxes of revolvers.
ammunition. dynamite. etc. in the mis-
tresss cupboard. All has been quiet here
since Yesterday evening. The government
has redoubled the police and military
forces and instructed them that order must
be preserved at all costs.