The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-01-29

wounds were sewed up dressed and
bandaged by a young lady belonging to
Ille mission, but one OF them. uieu at
midnight. while the other survived
THE massacre in the city was fear
ful beyond words to express. Three
christian quarters. covering large area,
We're burned. Two Gregorian Armenian
churches were burned, and in sone of
tneIn the women and children who had
sought refuge. there, perished in the
names. The Second and Third Evan
gellcal Churches We're looted of rugs,
mats and organs; the pulpits, windows and
doors We're carried away, and the inside
or the buildings was cut to pieces. These
chuseheS also would, no doubt. have been
burned but for the proximity of Moslem
houses; nous The venerable pastor of the ma
Of England, after suffering tortures. was
killed; The two head teachers of the
Amercan ANS acaln Academy one SsI Of whom ION was
ical Church, were killed. and one of them
was flayed alive and then cut to pieces.
to whom generally The alternative Of
Islam. or death was given. were most
cruelty slain. Children were diselnbow
elled, and the discovered heads of men
and women were kicked about by the
soldiers as balls, or were carried on
pixies through the streets.
saw from the windows of an adjacent
mouse her mother, grandfather, grand
m9tler mo 3, and uncle wi with his six-year-
on IRE and their bodies left to. be de-
voured by the flames a wife, with
her four young children, saw her hus-
band killed and the house they had built
with SO much hope and pride destroyed
by IRE In one family nine persons,
mostly women, We're wounded, one man
was killed, five Were seized and thrown
into prison, and the house was utterly
plundered.
"And this dire work of numbering. rob-
ping ana burning was done, not by
Kourds, but by the. regular soldiers of
the Ottoman Government, assisted by
menians were utterly passive victims.
without arms or possible means Of self
defense. So far as is known, not a Turk
was hurt in all the eight hours carnage.
The survivors are now in most
dreadful state of destitution. With nus
dered, houses burned the SURVIVORS of
many family. once in comfortable Cir
ceumstances, have not so much drink
I'm many cases the cold north winds
blowing from the snow-clad Taurus will
soon complete the, work of destruction
prisons are filled with innocent Arme
mans who are most vigorously treated,
among whom are physicians and. mer.
and Third Evangelical Churches.
zone of the prisoners was recently
ing after. ne had received three hundred
lashes. signed lying paper which the
Turks had prepared, and which accused
IIldliy IedulIl6 lATIl1euid1S OIL TSVOIuIlOn-
ary designs. The wretched survivors are
even now paralyzed with fear lest the
Turks, encouraged by the apathy Of the
Christian nations, may again begin to
slaughter. Let England, who at the
point of the sword annulled the treaty
of San Stefano. and in the place of Rus
sia made herself and the other Euro
pean powers the protectors of the Ar
menians. imagine, if she can. the pres
ent condition of the survivors.
In the presence of the tears and
grOans and PRAYERS of the shivaring
widows and orphans sitting in the ashes
of their ruined homes, who is the man
that dares apologize for the Turkish
authorities and plead in justification the
lying reports which those authorities
.SThe slaughter of $4,000 Christians
(seme 10000 in the single province of
Harpoot, the apostasy under the threat
of instant death of other thousands
and the utter impoverishment of some
hundreds of thousands-such is the con-
tribution which his Majesty the Sultan
has recently made to the soluMon of
his Majesty proposes to save himself
from the Intervention of Europe in be-
half of his Christian subjects.
Such is the preparation which His
Majesty is making preliminary 20 the
fulfilment of his promise to Lord Sails
bury on his honor 20, to carry out the
scheme of reforms.
"Such is the state into which England
Gall unwittingly), by her initiative in
celebrating and insisting on reforms, has
plunged. the Armenians. Is it to her
murdered. robbed. burned and martyr
ad7',