The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-04-30
RIVER FILLED
WITH BODIES
DEAD BODIES or MEN. WOMEN
AND CHILDREN FLOATING.
BEING CARRIED DOWN TO SEA
Conditions In the Country Around Ad.
ana are Terrible-Belated Cable
grams Tell of Dead Bodies Covering
Fields-Disease Appearing.


Adana, Tuesday, April 27.-Condi-
tions in the country surrounding Ad-
ana as a result of the recent fanati-
cal Moslem movements upon the
christian population are terrible.
Dead bodies are lying out on the
fields. Numberless Armenian farm
houses have been burned.
Conditions are more unsanitary and
dysentary is appearing.
River Filled With Bodies.
Merzina, Asiatic Turkey, April 81
Tuesday.-The river that empties into
the sea here is carrying down many
bodies of men, women and children.
They undoubtedly were thrown into
the river from the country above into
city.
The Fire at Adana.
Constantinople, April ga tele.
gram received here today from Adana
says the fighting which began there
last Saturday, continuing for two days,
that a terrible fire was destroying the
christian quarter of the city and that
further efforts were being made to
stamp out the Armenian population
Each Woman Wounded Four Times.
Adana, Asiatic Turkey, Saturday,
April 24.-The emergency hospital
here contains 300 patients suffering
from wounds, many of whom are wo-
to-each patient is four.
There is great and immediate need
for food and medical supplies. Prac-
tically the entire Armenian population
of Adana, $4,000 people, is homeless
without bedding or clothing, and the
food supply in the shops is exhausted.
Shot for Screaming.
Some of the wounded Armenian wo-
men have told Miss Wallace, an Eng
lish nurse who is caring for them,
that they were shot by the Moslems
because they screamed when they saw
their husbands killed before their
eyes.
Many Armenian girls were carried
off by the Turks as booty. A large
number of mutilated bodies have been
found in the houses of the city. Dur
ing the first five days of the disor-
ders, while fighting, Killing and plum
dering was going on on all sides, the
vail of Adana kept the Turkish troops
in the government house day and
night under orders. ON the sixth day
he ordered them to stop fighting
which could have been on the first
day.
American Missionary Talks.
Stephen Trowbridge, an American
missionary, said today:
"One man is responsible for the
disorders here, the vail himself. He
had it in his power to suppress law
lessness and massacre, but deliberate
ly refrained from doing so. He laid
simply we are not responsible
''The better class of Turks in
Adana," Mr.. Trowbridge continued,
"the members of the committee of
union and progress, are deeply griev.
ed and saddened at these dreadful
events. Some of them are ready to
join us in relief work for the Armen-
ians. One hey has already opened MS
house to refugees"
Americans Seize Guns.
The American missionaries allowed
no armed 'Armenians to enter the
mission premises. They confiscated
all weapons at the entrances to their
houses. During the four days NOT a
single shot was fired from the mis-
ed for the Armenians who had taken
shelter with the Americans upon the
condition that they would give up all
their arms and this stipulation was
strictly carried out.