New-York tribune., 1909-05-11
KILLED BY STRAY SHOTS
AMERICANS AT ADANA.
Mrs. Tro5cbrtdge Tells Horrors OF
the armenian Massacre.

Turkey by the family of Mrs. stephen Won n
Trowbrdge wife of the Rev. stephen Won ~
Trowbrdge formerly assistant OF the heN- - -
! s Parkes Cadman, Of Brooklyn, in Whlch hIS'
4 Trowbridge gives a realistic description OF lhe
! events before and after the massacre IN Auah"
The conditions in Adana appalling, says Iie
writer Moslems killed the Rev. Minor Kosers Hl,e
the Mennonite missionary, Maurer. six nundrea
! refugees in the Protestant church IN Adana "ei0
without food for three Gays.
| The massacre could have been stopped. but TURK
| ish officials wanted the Armenian popuauoh "4peu
! out. Mrs. TrowbriCge continues:
Wednesday Si9 moFning. April il the day before or
there suppressed excitement in the cn.S 5 o5-
! cause an Armenian mad killed one Turk and wound
ed two others. one Of whom soon died @ taaT3eT
During iie our first session Lawson Chambers and
Mr.. Gibbons out to look about the city & InSt
Of them until midnight. when the English C4nsn. sTa
found them at the SeFai nd navhg gemselves in the
midst of fighting mob in the market ana @ were Fore
rescued by some one who saw that they were loi-
About noon firing began about this section Of the he
the centre of the city the highest ground WITH WITH
Turks Beyond nd Turks to the north few to the
west, with Greeks beyond The station is near dn 1
by Armenian men and boys on the roots snootins i 2
m6se Ine bpts d ana 9os R ed snd his body dragged
through the streets near us by the MosieIhs u GA
! cite their people.
MANY FIRES WERE STARTED.
Shooting continued all the afternoon. Mr.. Cham
bers who tried to reach the vail and to send tele-
grams for help. found firing so bad that TN til. he
! had return. The school girls could not pc sen.
home Toward sunset things quieted down zsIaa and
began 3 to pour % into tne srs senG9i of the city and
At Q D. m. the 81 English Consul. Doughty-wey,
arrived from Mersine and left guard Of three sol
! day when thew ran away Possibly the instinct to
! loot and plunder may have made them want to get
| thought this to he an Armenian centre and were
| actually afraid fer their lives.
| Thursday rno DOuehty-WileV came
to the school about Il o'clock and left one Turkish
pie down off their roofs one French padre in the
Jesuit school close by Went up 10 sadsr 1aKe Ws
| did not dare move outside.
! You scarcely imagine how the people were
crowded into the schoolrooms In the three homes
| there were between eight hundred and a thousand
| After Iootins they set the buildings on fire. 4
Mr. Maurer fmrht f6e IRE for more than an hour,
and then Minor Rogers Joined them. Moslems loot
/ Ing nearby swore they would not harm them.
DEATH OF THE MISSIONARIES.
o5 sa rushed b R Rs ssd yhd w5h nos
T2@Sers and NJ Nj Nai'rer g,are killed r. was the
MoSlems who killed them. although shot was com
NiT Maurer ' was Just below him and Mr. Rogers
was handing up water. Stephen fell fiat. and SO
He lie got up and came in to US. but it was impos,
much excitemen 5f Pnd ld 5 ri3 Just then the
| consuls buge was heard. He came up with a
bodies. Miss Wallis the nurse, came over immedi-
| ately but it too late They had died almost
our 7abtieh disappeared OF Thursday night so
our 9niy sSard was 5and & OF young YOU ArIenanS mem m
al night, and we lay on the floor, with wraps on
shots directed this way made fourteen holes in the
| walls on Friday morning the crisis came The
! fire was spreading, and broke ont in house ad-
get the refugees ana the schoolgirls out stephen,
| Miss Elizabeth Webb and Miss Peck took them
over 10 the Chambers house.
TROOPS TO THE RESCUE.
a mob of Moslems had assembled on corner
near the school with plan of driving off the Ar
dHdng the @1 Wfo in sefy @ to the S Govern
ment house and Of returning for plunder and burn
at this terrible moment when the bugie was heard
lection. l thought Stephen was downstairs all this
time. but It seems that, after taking the school
girls to the Chambers house. he had gone to the
government Offices with two soldiers and demand
When stephen told the vail that two foreigners
had been killed he turned white and trembled.
stephen held Turkish flag in his hand and al
though Armenians tried to shoot the soldiers, Ste
lem ward. greeted with friendly sautatons.
After quiet was restored ten soldiers
putting out fires Before their arrival one of our
was ed in front OF f6e School door by tbe mob
and the school archives were scattered and de-
stEoyed,
You can see what weak man the vail is He
could have stopped the trouble the first hour but
! but: unlike the massacre times, the Turks have
SuHered uIedoIuliy, 100 me consul told the vail
on Thursday that. unless he took definite action
at once, he. the vail, and all the head officials
would have to answer by their lives.
Yesterday and to-day you should see the way
the militia getting about Every punderer is
shot down and fires have been put out. Soldiers
stationed on the outskirts OF the city shooting
and driving back Kurdish. Turkish and Circa ssian
villagers who had come for loot.
Word mas come that the Armenians In Hamidiyeh
and Osmaniyeh and smaller villages near bv are
completely wiped out. l suppose in those places
the Turks have not suffered much. Here many
have been killed. and fire has taken many OF their
homes. and Turkish and Armenian shops alike are
all destroyed.
DANGER OF DISEASE
The conditions in the city are terrible Mr. Cham
bers has been at the government offices to-day 10
ask for a health commission and a relief com
mittee. The fighting is over, the agreement being
that any man, Turk or Armenian, seen with arms
is to be deprived Of his arms but the danger now
lies in disease Refugees are leaving the Cham
bers home to-day many OF them to find their
homes burned and most OF them pIundered Of
everything Calls for relief Will 20 to America at
once and can assure you. from what the older
missionaries say, that conditions worse than
fourteen years ago.
Sunday evening. April IS.
DR.. Christie telegraphed tonight that Tarsus was
quiet, likewise Merstne and that thousands of refu-
gees in the college yard. Our hearts are sor-
rowing over telegram from Sis All the pastors
from HadJin, Sis, Zerabakan and two other places
whose names do not now recall were killed in a
Circassan village nine hours from Adana
To-day Stephen sent to the government offices
for pumps, and all smodering hres near by were
eNtingulshed- Soldiers patrong the streets
Government MD came to-day for the hundreds of
hungry native refugees in the Protestant school
buildings. This letter is be given to the English
Tn NJ 1I will