The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-05
THIRTY THOUSAND
RUTHLESS[Y SLAIN
Details of the MasSacreS in
Adana Province Not Yet
Revealed.
SOLDIERS ARE L00TING.
SHOOTING AND BURNING
No Respect Shown to Foreign
Properties, Either Ameri-
can or European.

ADt.\N, MOIudN. MAY o. Via La lIdtS.
Cyprus, May 4.-Adana is still lawless.
More people were killed yesterday. There
are 10000 dead in Adana province as Il
result Of the massacres and $1,000 home
less and penniless refugees are wandering
into the vilayct
The deaths in Adana City alone are
| estimated at $500 Adana is tcrrorized
by 1000 soldiers who are looting shoot
ing and burning, No respect is paid 10
foreign properties. Both the French
! schools have been DESTROYED and il Is
| feared the American school. commercial
and missionary interests In Adana arc
| totally ruined.
The now vail has not yet inspired con
| fidenco. There is reason 10 believe the
authorities stll intend 10 permit the eN-
| termination Of all Christians. The troops
here are making pretensc of throwing
| water on the flames: instead of water
| they were using kerosene and are thus
purposey adding TO the con1a grafton. APP
| prehension Is fel; here regarding the
J American missionary stations al Badim
and Tsrsus All letters and kilograms
sent ont through Turkish channels are
| censored.
sickening Details
| Authentic details OF the atrocities COM
| nitted by the fanatical Mohamnlcdsns in
! the villages and farms In this district
are now coming in with Sickcning ahun-
dance; The worst particulars OF rhosa hes.
! set forth without doubt that at least
10000 persons lost their lives in this
province and some diplomats Place the to TO-
Osmanieh, Bassche, Hamadich, Kara
kristian, Kcoy and kezolook were actu-
ally wiped out Each of these places had
populations from 500 TO GOO people In
one town OF 1000 people there are less
than 100 left nearly all women and chill
drcn. It was the same thing with the
hundreds of chiftlikcs. farms, that dot
ter ter vas s. m unsparins, Even creeks and
| Syrians were struck down with the Al
menians. Entire families were burned TO
death in their homes. Hundreds of girls
and young women were maltreatcd and
carried of to the jaharems.
Ipcreditable Atrocities.
The correspondent was informed that
at one place party OF 100 Armenians
surrendered TO the soldiers, The prison.
ers were taken TO open field, where
the women were ordered TO stand apart
from the men. Every one Of the men
was then shot. In many cases they went
to death With ;tlLrir women clinginS 70
them. trying to save their lives. A large
number, Of women were injured because
brought down into this district from
Hadjin and arc now held as slaves.
Young Turks around, Tarsus today arc
trading Armenian girls for horses and
| modern repeating rifles. The entire ten
days seem to have been an insepsate or
gy Of lust and violence in the name OF
race and religion. In the massacres of
fourteen years ago there was no such
desire 10 kill women and children as has
been evidenced in the last massa Gre.
There have been numerous instances OF
numbering women and children with de-
liberation, and there are other instances
where women were brought out ono by one
and shot down, the byStanders clappinS
their hands at each fresh execution,
Famine Threatened.
The local authorities are giving -four
cents a daN for each refugee in TaTsus.
The government allotment is being sup
4 1.lT fro, nf Yl1,s A 1CTi n
mission, The local officials say they arc
soon going 20 discontinue their contrihu-
tons. and if this is done there will soon
be famine,
The yard OF the mission house looks
like; rison- penitentiary: When the
sina came up to Tarsus with a number
of. officers on a visit. he called. at the
mission house. my Cod, he said, this
sleep?"
| The men wander around all night try
ing to keep warm; The women and chill
| dred sleep at night on the floors Of the
schoolrooIns. Few of them have beds.
| In the meantime the Moslems, in the
wasted country round about, are, pastur-
| ing their horses and cattle on the green
| crops Of their Armenian victims.
No Mercy Shown.
| During the recent massacres. the Ar
| menian population of kozolook was put
! 10 death without mercy Word that the
/ Mohammedans we're killing -Arm"nians
| reached Nozolook before the actual at
tack on the place, and when tho first
! considerable party Of Mohammedans ar,
/ rived they found the Armenians well
armed and in good defensive positions.
| The Moha,nmcdans did not feel strong
| enough for, attack, they gathered re-
| Inducements until more than 1000 of
them, we'll armed, surrounded the vii
/ lage.
The governor of the district promised
at this stage OF the proceedings TO pro-
tect the Armenians if they would give up
| their arms This the Armenians decided
to do after a long parley. Then. under
preteuse Of taking them 20 a place OF
| safety, they were led out OF the village
under escort TO sn open field. Here the
men were ruthlcssly killed and the women
! maltTeated. a number of Armenian girls
were forced to marry Turks.
The local authorities. who promised to
| give an equivalent of six cents day to
each drStitut" person, gave only four
cents for a few days and have re-
duccd their donations 10 an equivalent Of
| two cents.
TIDED TIrEErT WING