Evening star., 1909-04-27
went to the telegraph Office to summon
the British conusl.
Slain and Mutilated.

the British conusl.
Slain and Mutilated.
ION the steps of the building We saw
three Armenians who had been massa-
cred. Their bodies had been mutilated.
While we were in the telegraph office
mob burst into the room where we
were and killed two Armenians before
our eyes The unfortunates were suppl
eating the protection of the vail when
they were struck down.
I'VE managed to make our way into
the next room. where we made repre-
sentations to the vail. This official said
he could do nothing. He was afraid or
his own life, and he made no attempt 10
protect us.
Somehow we managed to get to the
interior of the Konak. There we remained
at the side of the government officials Tor
the next forty-eight hours.
THAT afternoon the situation grew dls-
tinctIy worse. The Armenians withdrew
to their quarter of Adana. which Is SIT
uated on hill. and converted their
houses that held advantageous positions
into fortresses.
"There the fighting went on for two
days. The Armenians succeeded In peat
ing off their Turkish assailants-
"wednesday evening Maj. Daughty-
Wylie, the British vice consul at Mer-
sina arrived at Adana and established
headquarters in the house of a dragoman
of "A wealthy Greek resident where many
of the refugees were received. The wife
of the British vice consul. who was
brought into Adana under fire Thursday,
tended personally many wounded women
and children.
Bazaars Looted and Fired.
"Adana was a hell The bazaars were
looted and set on fire. There was con-
tinuous and unceasing shooting and Kill
ing in every part of the town. Fires
ragged i'm many quarters.
..MosIems from the neighborhood began
pouring into the city. Notwithstanding
our vehement protests the vail distrlouteo
arms 10 these men. alleging that they
were Turkish reserves
..Nai Daughty-Wylie at the head of
troops which he compelled the vail to
supply went to the railway END OIL tne
town and was successful In preventing
the villagers from coming INTO Adaha.
Later while the ma jor was attempting 10
pacify the town. he was shot ana ois-
sbled. ~
mission had assembled for district con-
ference in the center of Adana on the day
of the outbreak. They received and
protected hundreds of refugees IN the
American Seminary for Girls, and courag-
eeusly endeayored to pacify the warning
elements.
..On Thursday Daniel Miner Rogers
and Henry Maurer. American missionar-
les were killed under treacherous circum-
stances.
ION Friday the Armenans yielded
Since then there has been little murder
.Adana is in a pitiable condition. The
town has been pillaged and destroyed
There are thousands of homeless people
here without means of livelihood.
Corpses Lie on Streets.
cit is impossible to estimate the number
of killed. The ccrpses lie scattered
through the streets.
Friday when l went out / had to pick
my way between the dead to avoid step
ping on them. Saturday morning I count
ed a dozen carloads of Armenian bodies
in one-half hour being carried to the river
and thrown into the water. In The Turk
ish cemeteries graves are being dug
wholesale.
'The condition Of the refugees is most
pitiable and heartrending. Not only are
there orphans and widows bevond num-
ber. but a great many, even bapies' are
suffering from severe wounds.
1.-THE situation in Adana itself is un-
speakable.
"On Friday afternoon. go so-called
Turkish reserves. without officers seized
neer to convey them to Tarsus There
they took part In the complete destruc-
tion OF the Armenian quarter of that
town. which is the best part OF Tarsus.
''Their work of looting was thorough
sand rapid. 1t is said that they spread
with kerosene and fired the great historic
Armenian church at Tarsus. the most I'M
portant building in the city.
'.They demolished marble statues and
shattered important historic tablets. Ev-
erything portable was carried away. but
the church itself resisted their attempts
to burn it.
fortunately few persons were killed
here. This was owing TO the proximity
OF the American College. where 1000 des-
tifute and homeless persons had sought
and found shelter"
Missions in Asia Minor.
NEW YORK, April 27.-The Rev. Her
bert Adams Gibbons. who gives the first
story of an eyewitness OF the pillage and
slaughter going on in the interior of Tur-
key. is a teacher In st. Paurs Institute
at Tarsus a college of the American
board Of commissioners for foreign mis-
sions, Of which Rev. Thomas B. Christie
Is president.
The college was founded by Rev. Mr..
Christie. who was appointed missionary
by the American board Immediately after
his graduation from Andover CMass)
Theological Seminary in 1877.
Mr.. Gibbons is not over twenty-four or
twenty-five years old. and recently grad
uated from the University of Pennsylva-
MIA and Princeton Theological Seminary.
He studied for a year in Paris and then
went to Tarsus to teach in the American
College, as st. Pauls College is generally
known. His wife was formerly Miss
Helen d. Brown of Hartford. Conn.
Mersina, Tarsus and Adana are closely
linked In the mission work. 1t is under
the direction of the American board Of
commissioners for foreign missions. which
has sent large force of missionaries,
many of them accompanied by their
wives, into this district.
The Rev. William n. Chambers. with
his wife and three other American women,
conduct the work at Adana, while the
Rev. DIR. Thomas D. Christie. Mrs. Chris
tie and DIR, Gibbons and his wife have
their headquarters at Tarsus. There are
other nearby stations and fifty-two out
stations.
The extent of the work is shown by the
fact that the average attendance at the
station meetings is 14,63O. and the num-
her OF Sunday school pupils 15,O99. The
missionaries conduct IS churches. having
a regular membership Of 7,l33.
daughter OF the Rev. Mr.. Christie was
the wife of ID. Miner Rogers. the mis-
sionary referred to by Mr.. Gibbons as
having been treacherously killed.
SEEKING WoRKHOUsE SITE.