The Oskaloosa herald., 1909-05-06
10000 ON DEATH
s. LIST At ADANA
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City Now Terrorized by 1000
Turkish Soldiers.
TRADE GIRLS FOR HORSES
Revolving Story Of Fiendish Attacks
Sent from Tarsus--Women and
Children Are Not Spared
from Death.


the city. There are $4,000 dead in the
Adana provinces as result OF the
massacres, and $4,000 homeless and
penniless refugees are wandering in
the vilayet
The deaths in Adana city alone are
estimated at $500.
Adana is terrorized by 1000 soldiers,
who are footing, shooting and burn
ing. No respect is paid to foreign
properties. Both the French schools
have been destroyed, and it is feared
that the American school, commercial
and missionary interests in Adana are
totally ruined.
The new vail has not as yet in.
spired confidence. There is reason to
believe that the authorities still in
tend to permit the determination of all
Christians. The troops here are max
ms a pretense OF throwing water" on
the flames; instead of water they use
kerosene. and are thus purposely add
ing to the confiagration.
Apprehension is felt here regarding
the American missionary stations at
Hadjin and Tarsus. fm
All letters and kilograms sent out
through Turkish channels are CEN
sored.
Tales of Horror Told.
Tarsus. Asiatic Turkey. May s.
Authentic details of the atrocities com
mitted by the fanatical Mohammedans
in the villages and farms in this dis
trict are now coming in to Tarsus with
sickening abundance. The worst par
ticulars of these narratives cannot be
mentioned, but they set forth without
doubt that at least 10000 persons lost
their lives in this province, and some
estimates place the total casualties at
$4,000. Villages like Osmanieh.
Bazsche. Hamadieh. Kara. Kristian.
Keoy and Kezolook were actually
wiped out. Each of these places had
populations of from 500 to coo people.
In one town Of 1000 people there are
less than 100 left. nearly all women
and children II was the same thing
with the hundreds of chiftlikes, or
farms, that dot this wide and fertile
plain. The slaughter was unsparing;
even Greeks and Syrians were struck
down with the Armenians. Entire
families were burned to death In their
homes. Hundreds of girls and women
were maltreated and carried off to the
harems, where the women were sep
arated from the men.
Women at shootings.
s,F
that at one place party of 100 Arme-
mans surrendered to the soldiers. The
prisoners were taken to an 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 were done to death with
their women clinging to them. trying
to save their lives. A large number
of women were wounded because of
their persistence.
Young Turks around Tarsus traded
Armenian girls for horses and modern
seem to have been an insensate orgy
of lust and violence in the name of
race and religion. In the massacres
of fourteen years ago there was no
such desire to kill women and children
as has been evidenced in the last ten
days. There have been hume. ous in.
stances of the numbering of women
and children with deliberation, and
there are other instances where
women were brought out one by one
and shot down, the bystanders clap.
ping their hands at each fresh execu.
ton.
Massacre at kozolook.
The Armenian population of the VII
lage Of Kozolook was put to death un.
der the following circumstances:
Word that the Mohammedans were
killing Armenians reached Kozolook
before the actual attack on the place,
and when the first considerable party
OF Mohammedans arrived they found
the Armenians well armed and in good
positions standing on their defense.
The Mohammedans did not feel
strong enough to attack, so they gath
cred reinforcements until there were
more than 1000 of them, well armed,
in the mob.
New Cabinet Formed.
Constantinople. May 5.-The new
cabinet was yesterday organized as