The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-04-27

current in the Turkish capital Il
that Abdul Hamid is dead. The =
troops who are said to have taken y
him from the palace last night *
found him unconscious on the y
floor in all inner room of the +
harem. T.
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Constantinople. April 27.-Abdul
Hamid has been deposed as sultan
of the Turkish empire and Mohemmed
Rerchad Effendi. his brother. has pro-
claimed his successor. A salute OF
1O1 guns fired at 2 o'clock this after
noon announced to the waiting popu-
lace the change in sultans.
"wednesday evening Major Daugh-
ty-Wylie. the British vice consul at
Mersina. arrived at Adana and es-
tablished headquarters in the house
of dragoman. wealthy Greek resi-
dent, where many refugees had been
re eceived. The wife of the British vice
consul, who was brought into Adana
under fire on Thursday, tended per-
sonally many wounded women and
children.
"Adana was a hell. The bazaars
| were looted and set on fire. There
was continuous and increasing
shooting and killing in every part of
the town and fires ragged in many
quarters.
On Thursday Dancle Miner. Roger
and Henry Maurer, American mis-
sionaries. were killed under treach-
erous circumstances. On Friday the
Armenians yielded, since when there
has been little numbering. Adana is
in a pitiable condition. The town
has been pillaged and destroyed and
there are thousands of homeless peo-
pie here without the means of livli-
hood. 1t is impossible to estimate the
number of killed. The corpses lie
scattered through the streets. Friday
when l went out I had to pick my way
between the dead. Saturday morning
counted dozen cartloads of Ar
menian bodies in one half hour be-
ing carried to the river and thrown
into the water. In the Turkish ceme-
taries graves are being dug by the
wholesale. The condition of the refu-
gees is most pitiable.
THE situation in Adana itself is
unspeakable. On Friday afternoon
250 so-called Turldshs resesrves,
without officers, seized a train at
Adana and compelled the engineer to
convey them to- Tarsus where they
took part in the destruction of the
Armenian quarters which Is the best
part of Tarsus.
The deposition was made through
the regular form prescribed by the
tenets of the Mohammedan faith.
Sheik vi Islam, the head of the
church, issued the decree of deposit
ton. The deposed sultan has been
removed from the imperial palace OF
Yildiz and conveyed across the Bos-
phorus to point in Asiatic Turkey.
| Troops under the command of
Young Turk officers entered the sui
tan's palace last night and took his
majesty prisoner. Later. close
ly guarded, he was removed to Cher
aghan palace OH the BosphOrus.
May Be Revolt.
Fifty Turkish officers have been ar
and dispatched under escort to
Trebizoznd. The exact significance of
this action is not yet clear, but it is
feared that it means the beginning of
revolt OF the provincial troops
against the Young Turk officers.
There was a fresh outbreak of
fanaticism and murder last night at
Adana, accompanied by looting and
incendiarism. The situation there is
critical.
Story Of An Eyewitness.
Adana. Asiatic Turkey, April ~
Rev. Herbert Adams Gibbons of Hart
ford. Conn.,, missionary OF the
American Board of Foreign Missions,
stationed here and at Tarsus. was an
eyewitness of the scenes of terror and
destruction as the center of the Mos
lem uprising. He gives as follows the
first graphic story of the scenes of
the massacres and ;ncendiarism.
The entire villeyet of Adena has