The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-11-24
The Armenian Horrors.

pathes as it would had it happened
in his home land or had it involved
his own friends or kindred. single
homicide committed in our midst ex-
cites our shuddering horror viii the
news OF many homicides, thousands
of miles away, effec rs little in com
parison.
When we hear that 100000 Armen-
ians have persisted in the Turkish
massacres we are fiRed with indigna
ton against the wholesale murderers
and Wi h sympathy for their hapless
victims; but we do not fully take in
the situa ion, or duly measure the
immensely of this outrage aga nst our
common humanity. Imagination seeks
vainiy to depict hese scenes oftorture,
bloodshed and terror. the unspeakable
;tgonies that have attended this sat
tmnaia OF crime.
A young naval officer who sailed on
the war ship Minneapolis to the
Orient, where for a time it's duty was
toguard small portion OF the coast OF
Turkish Armenia, said when here last
summer, on his home vacations; "You
people vino live so far away from the
scenes OF these massacres do not at
all realize their horrors We, OF
the Minneapolis, got someid a OF them
when we saw their escaped victims,
man,ed. crippled, blinded, mutilated,
md reduced in day from affiuence
orcomfort to beggary. The sight OF
t be Sc poor refugees, who were constant
Iy coming into the town where we
were stationed, led rs to behold in
fancy some OF the dreadful things
that were going on beyond those
mount aims, and to regret that the
guns OF our ship could not reach further
inland"
Two young Armenian refugees who
have recently visited our city under
the prot ection of Booth Tucker, Of the
Salvation Army, as they tod the
awful story OF the ConstantInople
massacre, gave those who saw and
heard them realization OF its horrors
such as volumes Of written description
could not have afforded.
These young men, educated, refined
andevidently accustomed to the ways
Of polite society, were only fair ex-
amples OF large class of the Armen-
ian victims. Entertained in some OF
the best homes in our city, they have
left behind them pleasant memories
and have awakened i'll us still deeper
Indignation against that great assassin
who sits on the throne of CONSTANT
nople. 1t was only with the utmost
difficulty that they escaped from
their blood thirsty pursuers. One OF
them remained hidden in a well for
two days. while he terrible carnage
was going on around him.
These witnesses tell OF six
young Armenians, who We're induced
by squad ofTurkish police to follow
them under the pretehce that they
would be led to II place Of safety.
While on the route these men who
had promised to save the lives. OF the
students, fell upon five of them and
hacked them in pieces-one having
managed to escape. We learn with
pleasure that the parents and relatives
of the two interesting refugees above
mentioned, have arrived in New York.
Lady Somerset has promised them
her assistance and protection, and
they will become residents of our
country.
These are only isolated instances
drawn from the story OF whole
nations martyrdom martyrdom
attended by fiendish and inc onceivable
atrocities, which is going on in the
worlds latest and most enlightened
era, and in the face OF the great
Christian nations, who by one mo-
ment OF concerted action, could put
an end to all these horrors.
The fact that it is the oldest of
Christian people which is being ex-
terminated by Moslem hate and
barbarity. is q sad reflection upon
modern Christianity. In the 18th