New-York tribune., 1896-02-07
THE BLACK HOLEn OUTDONE
rR1GuTFlL AND sICKENINC. HORRORS or
THE TURKISH PRISONS
ARMrXrANs PACKED LIKE BEASTS IN PENS AND
KEPT FOR MONTHS WITHOUT TRIAI-No
LIGHT 40 AIR. no ROOM TO REST IN
THE FOuI. DENs-'1T Is LIVING
GRAVE. VISIBLE HE'LL.
WORLD WITH

OFT GOD"
London Jan e9-The United Press correspond
ent in Constantinople. writing under the date Of
January -. says
The work u making out the statistics about the
countless smaller villages goes on slowly. but
shows that the worst had not been realized.
careful list OF those killed at Adaiman. near Ain
tab, shows IN" number 10 have been 1880, but
few u whom were women and children. Soldiers
were called out after three days work was done
and are now protecting Christians Two strong
houses In Adalnan were filed with the promi-
nent and weather. class Of Christians. who thus
inclosed resisted attacks. The buildings Were
undermined and fired with Kerosene and cotton
and general holocaust the result. over
thirty persons were ia each dwelling. Both
houses contained members of the local governing
board. OF the four churches two were ruined and
two burned. 1t should be- noticed In all these ac-
counts that buildings were often spared through
fear that the fire might be communicated 10
Mosem dwellings
A large number OF villagers had fled for safety
into Furnez near Marash. and finally there was
a great slaughter Of everybody In Furnez Itself
no authentic details Of which can be given: but
some three hundred women and children We're
brought 70 Marash where they We're slowed at
ward divided among the committees Of the city.
seventy-nve falling t. the Protestants who re-
ceved them into their already impoverished
homes. At Marash the relief Is given at the rate
OF four cents a head each week.
Just before the last massacre at Oorfa the
Christians there paid 500 for the Government 10
send two kilograms to Constantinople expressing
their thanks and love TO the Sultan. These tele
grams had been wrung out OF them by the threat:
III you do not siga you rrbes."
"A COMPLETE IDEA OF HE'LL"
A college gr lduate who II few years ago. was
put into the Marash prison used often to say
that no further experience was needed to set
before a complete idea Of hell. There IL
| more comfort In hundreds OF the stables in that
| city thar in this overcrowded receptacle OF
| hundreds OF men. who are thrown into it with
or without reason. many Of whom kept
| In there without trial for months Preachers,
| priests. educated men and the lowest criminals
are set In together almost az closely cattle
| In freight train No food Is giver to
them by the authorities. but the friends Of each
one must bring it day by day. 1t first goes into
the hands Of the Turkish guards, who eat as
much as they Wish. and then give to their
| friends whom the Government crowds upon
the prisoners for support. and the part remain
ing is handed over to the prisoners. During the
late disturbance. when $50 men were massacred.
not a Mosem arrested but Christians were
seized without show OF reason. and there
they continued In that BLACK Hole of Cal
cutta' month after month. without any pros
pect Of trial. and still less Of any show Of justice
when they are examined. The fact that a man
| Is a human being seems to have no place In the
criminal code II the land and yet an educated
Turk can discourse intelligently upOn the
humanity that is common to man as any other
educated European.
| The following communication is directly from
| a man who has been lying In that hell-hole for
over q month"; and Is no more worthy Of such
treatment than thousands of the readers Of this
| letter. 1t is given as sent. with the exception
| of few words of explanation nterspersed to
| make II fully Ineligible to Occidental readers:
"Our condition in prison passes description.
| Only he who sees can understand 1t. Most Of
| the occupants OF every room are Christians,
but many are Mosem. Life would be a shade
more tolerable II the subject race were not COM
PEELED thus to associate with the dominant race,
| whose temper, tastes and habits differ
ont Into small room twenty persons are
crowded. Except few Moslems. not a single
person has room enough on the bare floor to
| hours in the night the doors of the rooms are
! all locked. Hence every corner OF the room
becomes foul, and the stencil from this con-
tlnuoIs condition. well as the odor from the
| little charcoal which Is burned In an open
: brazer by day. is uncndurable. In one OF these
| small rooms sometimes twenty cigarettes are
smoking at once.
CHRISTIANS FORCED TO FEED MosLEMS
"Out Of the small amount OF food which
reaches u.s. the Christians are obliged to feed
the Moslems confined there. Instead of eating
themselves the Christians are compelled TO
! supply food to these men. The oppression or
the dominant race continues even here. 1t Is
! Q tyranny within tyranny. In every room