The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-07-12
HORRORS IN ARMENIA.


graphically Described by Agent
HubbeH in a Letter to a Friend.
The following letter was recently re-
ceived by a friend In Minnesota from
J. B. Hubbell, the field agent of the
Red Cross, who is now with Miss Bar
ton in Turkey:
Arabkir, June 8, 1896. My Dear
| Friend-It has been a long time since
1 have sent you any word and now I
have but a few minutes while waiting
for some one to go with me to see a.
! sick woman.
l do not remember writing since we
| left ConstantinopIe.
Before being able to obtain any real
permission from the government two
| of us left ,Constantinople to come in to
Asia Minor by the south-by way of the
| Mediterranean. ea1
Our steamer touched at Smyrna
Samos, twice at the Island of Cypress.
Mercene, down across to Tripoli then
by another steamer back to Alexan-
drette, where we landed and looked
after the forwarding of goods by camel
caravan to the interior.
Two weeks later others of our party
arrived, when we started for the in
terror, having first provided ourselves
with good horses
We reached Kills a few days after
the massacre, visited the wounded
some f1fty-then on to Aintab, from
! which point we sent goods to Ourfa
| Marash Zeitun
Here our party divided, one part GO
ing to Ourfa, Diabkir. Severk and Har-
| poot.
Typhus being in Marash, my party
went there. and put medical help at
! work and waited for other doctors
whom we had met at Tripoli to come
from Syria to take the relief of the
typhus at Zeitun.
We then left Marash and in three
days reached Bosnia, passing through
the Wild Boar and Brigand forest.
In Bosnia some good Turks saved the
town and we were their guests. Four
days more through the Kourdish coun-
try brought us to Malatia which suf
fered much from fire, pillage and mas
sacre.
Two days more brings us to Harpoot
q strongly fortified city, older than the
| Christian era.
Here. we are told that in forty years
put one other party of Americans have
visited this place, who were not mis-
stonaries. And why shouldn't thew he
glad to see US? They met US mile
out of the city and when we reached
t the town way up on the mountain edge
thousands of people thronged the
streets and housetops to welcome the
| Americans
Here, too. is fire, plumber and des-
! tltution; and In the valley below, ex-
tending over vast territory village
after village lies In utter ruin. Nearly
SoO IN the Harpoot district, and the
people who, year ago, lived there in
! plenty, now have scarcely enough 70
cover themselves-many, no beds, and
their food is only what may be given
| them.
| Here we again divided into three
parts taxing on local help for each
| one, and again separated to take IN
| different fields of relief; Mr. Wood with
| Prof. Tennekejian, the Palu region
with forty-five villages and Mr.. wis.
tar, the Parf region. And because or
the typhus L take physician and helm
er and come to Arabkir, where we have
now, under DR.. Hinrliar,. nearly / 200
cases which have been treated-mostIv
| typhus, some surgical
We have some very interestino o.sas
we took a photograph of one TODAY
a BABY three and one-half months old
also measurements. The mother threw
| herself onto her husband whila thew
were trying to kill him. We took a
buiiet from his breast. Eleven men
were killed in her presence. She saved
her husband. But the baby's fingers
| - csAA vi OiA save one on each hand
and one thumb. The ends of the toas
on one foot are cut off, The feet are
deformed. 90
Besides the medical relief we ara SIM
plying tools. looms, spinning wheels
garden seeds, farm tools, chickens for.
eggs and increase, goats or sheen for
milk; for in many parts the childran
now eat grass, pulling 1t up bv tba
roots and eating the tender stalks and
roots '-4u
Here we have the typhus well in
hand now, but there are MANY sur-
g1cal cases that had to be put aside
and wait for the fever patients to re-
ceive their call
We We're strongly opposed at f1rst-,n
| tact, stopped in our workout all Il
going well now. =
Miss Bach came from Harpoot with
| US. She is good worker and has been
In the country twenty-six years.
IN Few days we will go into some of
the more distant villages or to anotfer
typhus center with other physicians
leaving the one we have here in charge
IT. B. Hubbeu.