The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-01

themselves upon -Eeir mercy. uur each
CAV after shutdown they were driven OF. I
together 10 De slaughtered. their cries
ming the air one lOug line vi PRISON.
els bound togeth her, was le1 90 : trench. I
ana mere cut down, one after the other. .
lu cold blood. 10 tumble into the ditch
and be buried dead OF alive
The larger Armenian cities were The
scenes OF lnurscllc1ole dl41o-isrn. ID one
instance the soldiers requested as many
as 5.Hln Christ iaus TO crowd into @ church.
pretending that they would lie protected
The doors and windows were then bar
headed. 10 prevent escape. me building
hooded with kerosene from the roof. and
Hfel' only about sixty persons escaping
from this fearful holocaust
CHRISTIANS were crowded into their de-
SRol-el homes ana their houses nrrd,
while the heuds without flung back upol
their bayouets those who tried 20 iy from
While the cruel Kurds prefer TO XIII
people with bullets and daEgers. the
Turks delight in torturing them ro death,
cutting their veins open, souEins oul
tearing Off their ears. severiug their hands
ana their feet uaying them alive aral1-
ing ana burning them with red hot irons.
tearing out their teeth, cutting OF their
fingers and toes, one az a time. siicill
Off portions of flesh. then leaving them
10 linger till relieved by death
One witness testified 70 seeing a Turk
ish officer bind an aged Arme MAN head
d0wnwards, then slowly cut him through
with an axe, while from the same hiding
place he saw soldiers torturing Two
priests. one of whom vas his own father.
AiJer falling 20 force them % deny their
compelled them TO dance while they beat
ana gashed them hrutally. and after
death the body Of one was found with
neither eyes, nose, ears, lips nor skin
left upon his head.
Long trenches were dug, and hundreds
OF wounded, dying ana dead were nuns
in together 10 get them out Of the way,
but dreadful as such burial alive mus,
be, IL was a mercy compared 10 TURK
The most horrible death imaginable
would be delight, and the most terrible
i'm comparison 10 q Mohammedan trial or
captivity for a Christian prisoner
The Christian conception Of perdluon
becomes a paradise Whtn compared 70
the combination pest holes torture pens
and dungeons of death called prisons,
into which refined Christian captiVes are
Piteo1s means Of mangIed beings, with
shattered arms, and broken legs, ana
groans and shrieks of the tortured who re-
fuse to reuOunce their faith or betray their
friends to the same Internal fury, the de-
mCniacal laughter of the dull eyed bestial
Turks tOrmentiug some Christian boy or
girl pleading in vain for mercy, till these
hends actually outrage him or her 70
death, the dying delirium of some fever
racked sufferer, and the expiring gasp OF
some poisoned prisoner convulsed i'm
Sentry boxes lined with sharpened
spikes into which helpless victims are
thrust to stand for days mOtiOnless, With
out food or drink, to be revived by brutal
blows when falling faint upon the bloody
floor tn carried out UNCONSCIOUS or dead.
Women are dishOnored before their hus-
bands, and daughters violated before their
fathers, and children outraged before their
parents, who are often bastinadOed till
their agOniZing cries cause more awful
anguish to the tender loving hearts of
dear one than physical agony could infict,
as in the following instance of official
record.
living cross and so cruelty tortured that
the victim tried to beat his brains out
against the pillar to which he was tied,
but was prevented.
Being commanded repeatedly to betray
his fellows and renounce his faith, he re-
piled:
81 cannot dehle my soul with the blood
OF innocent people. / am Chrlsuan!
Then pincers were brought to tear out his
teeth. Amid roars Of merriment, his
moustache was plucked out one hair at
time. A red hot iron was then held against
the palms of his hands and applied to his
| breast, back, face, feet and other parts.
Then they forced his mouth open and
| burned his tongue with red hot pincers.
| When he tainted he was revived, but re-
manned firm, and refused to recant or in
criminate the innocent When the women
and children tried to fly for help they
were crushed back and compelled to hear
his heart-rending cries till they tainted,
| terrified, but this was only a case on rec
! ord before the massacres began, in the
village of Semal during the regular con-
dttion of affairs, under full official con-
troll.
This case is contained in an official re-
port of the British vice consul of Ere
rOum, copies of which are kept by the dip
lomatic representatives Of the powers at
Constantinople, and occurred in ordinary
times before the great massacres began,
because this man would neither renounce
his faith nor falsely accuse other Christ
! ians of conspiracy.
If demons from the Internal regions
could outdo the diabolical tOrments of Mo
n1WV don inn sfg
genuity and imagination must be impo-
! tent
The commingling of cries of exquisite
anguish, and rOars of deVilish laughter.
the singing of the Vilest songs of de-
| bauchery, drowning out the death groans
and prayers of the victims of these awful
orgies; the pestilential stencil, the putrid
| filth of reeking offal and living vermn,
the polluted water and poisonous air, the
fiery fever and foul infection, the loath-
some diseases of lustful outrages, more
dreadful than leprosy, the delirious raw
| ings of living and dying victims. rendered
maniacs by uncomfortable crimes.
Here we must stop with the hope that
the English language may never be de-
filed with descriptions of such witnesses,
and that the Christian women and chill
dren OF the world may never know or
even dream of them. But wholesale i'm
prisonments and massacres may be more
merciful than the normal condition" of
affairs for the Christians Of Armenian as
massacres unremitting must exhaust
themselves, while their constant persecu-
tiOns are continuous.
Unremitting robbery, ceaseless outrage.
continual torture, till the cries of the per-
ishing people vainly implored protection
from the powers that had rendered them
defenseless to betray them to their tor
mentors.
The response this reign of terror, and
era of determination
Despair, disease, starvation and death
stalking through the length and breadth
of the land dreadful epidemics, sickness
and famine finishing the fatal work among
the heart-broken, perishing but heroic
remnant of their nation.
WAYCROss GLEANINGs.
4 Call Extended to Rev. ID, A. HrOvvy,