The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-01-28
BLOOD EVBRYV here.
Letter From Turkey Deserib-
ing the Armenian
Horrors.

BOSTON. Jan. %. 1S96-The following
letter. from Aintab received here under
date of December 16. contains an account
OF new and unique features of the stu
atoms IN that portion of Central Turkey F.
We have been passing through some
very deep waters, says the writer. We
can now understand Jeremiah's agony
as he saw his people pershng around him.
We seem also to be suddenly set back
into New Testament times. perhaps more
correctly the times of the early church
after New Testament times, when to be
a Christian might mean death at any time.
Up to within a year Aintab has been
pretty free from the troubles so bad else
where.
On the morning of the 18th of November
the Christians went to their work as usual
very early. and between seven and eight
o'clock suddenly the Moslems in the mar
ket came for them with heavy knives,
ETC., which they had hidden pre-
viously in their clothes. The Christians
We're unprepared. many were killed, and
many fed. but of these great many were
arrested by the government and put in
khans. etc. l presume very many were
saved in this way. From the market
the movement spread over the city. BY
the middle of the afternoon it was over as
far as one region was concerned. That
night there was no trouble around us,
though we hear that in the markets the
plundering kept up all night The next
morning large bodies of Kourds hung
around, but for hours the soldiers kept
them off.
A little before noon, however, they
r. in nd ftxy Iaad
work. On one side they did not succeed
in doing very much. On the other side
they killed and plundered at will. 1t was
all over very soon. A Moslem neighbor
began to bring the wounded into the hos
pital. and very soon there were about
thirty-five there. The hospital physician
and all the skilled attendants other than.
servants were away with one exception
in the city. The wounds were, as always
on such occasions. ranging from the
most serious to the altogether trivial
After awhile the one skilled attendant
was called to the city, to dress wounds.
all with the, aid OF unskilled hands, I
wish 1 could adequately describe the
ladies carried the Responsibilities thus
thrust upon them. There were too many
for them to take care of in anything
covered with wounded or with those try
ing to help. There was blood every
they were. finished up by night, though
only by the, ladies working far beyond
heh strengh b WaS iad the same the fol
called off to the city. Iet the work
was, done and well done-as well as the
limited room and resources of the hospi-
tai allowed.
Wounded men came in by the score and
al hands had to do all that they could
eight have died in the hospital. The dead
IN all are about 400 or so. A large number.
though small in proportion to the killed.
We're wounded. Very many houses were
I should think it would reach up into the
single man lost 5000 and another four
ffths as much. AS a venture l should
say that the Sun SUN 900 actually s plunderedl
| uncollected accounts. etc., which are
probably done for are included. will be
very much more. The business of the
Christians is at least temporarily crushed
OF course If you translated the above into
| figures which would represent equal
amount of labor and savings in America,
it would be sum six or seven times as
large.
There are, many of the slightly wounded
who slept on the floor with nothing un-
der them. There We're many very ser
iously wounded and in an outside room
at all. but whose houses were plundered
of everything and they were so in terror
Their hoage that haS hthy we're s9qd m not eTe Say
stricken Most of them had seen friends
killed before their hi eyes: Al around were
to continually bring to mind the horrors
of the few hours previous.
In happy America "terror-stricken'' is
agine, but / doubt if you can. That
night we were all in the midst of death
and not knowing What the morrow would
sion was very great, but later 1t was
less. Now it is variable. For instance,
yesterday and today there was cnsid-
and 18th of November there has heen
considerable of rising, but each time
it was quickly put down by the mill
The Gregorians and Protestant Arrne-
mans work. as one in their relief work
~ wi wped OUT Adiaman diaas and and psvr severeh
of the Moslems there AS far as this
| subject is concerned i, may say that
Aintab has given us a large amount Of
SURPRISES. Moslems who were supposed
to be friendly to the Christians, either
while others whom all Christians consid-
cred to be very bad saved in some cases
whole neighborhoods, in Others single
numbers of Moslems interfered to help
Christians and that had they not done
50 the loss Of life and property would
Adiaman seem to be nearly destroved.N. \.
In -Sehesne and Nezzib and Beredjik the
Moslems have protected their Christian
ne ghbnrs against all attacks. In Kills
and Hassan Begli also the people have
been protected by the government. In
Aleppo Beilan and Antinoon there ap-
pears to have been no trouble
Now we are face to face with great
financial trouble All resources are going
to feed the hungry and no matter how
much help comes from abroad we wiz
still have to exert ourselves to the ut
most, and Armenans who have anything
must give it to Armenians who have
nothing to save them from starvation.
A little extra help will be worth very
much more than resolutions which do no
good, and if they are seen only tend to
make trouble.
MRS. LYONS IMPROVING.
Her Son Who Shet Her sticks 10 His