Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-05-05
MAssAoREs CONTINUE.

AOana lS Slllt ihWlesss hOtc pVOPtO
we're killed in the city Monday. There
are 80, 600 dead in Adsna province as q
result of the msssacres, and S5, 600
homeless and peDnileSs refugees sre
wandering in the vilayet.
The deaths in Adsna city alone are
estimated at D, 500. Adana Is terrorizsd
by 1000 soldiers, who are loOtiDg,
shooting and burning. No respect Is
paid to foreign properties. Both the
French schools have been destroyed
and it is fesTed that the American
school, commercial and missionary in
terests In Adaua are totally ruined.
The rew Vail has not as yet inspi2ed
confidence. There is reason TO belhev'
thai the au bOriues still intend t. PEI
NIT the extermiDation of all Christian
The roops at A ana are making pr
teuss OF throwing "Water" On th'
hame'; ius ead of water they use kero-
sene and thus ara purposely adding TO
the conf & anon. Apprehension is felt
at Adsns ga ding the American mis-
sionsry ala ions a. Hsdjin and Tarsus.
Ali letters and telegrams sent out through
Turkish channels are censored.
Authentic details of the atrocities
committed by the tanatical Mobammed-
ans in the villages and farms about
Tarcus are coming in. The worst psrtic-
ulsrs of these narratives cannot be
mentioned, but they set forth witbou
doubt that at least TO- 900 persons lost
their lives ia this province and some
estimates place the total casualty list at
25, 900. Many villages we're actually
wiped out Each of these places had
populations OF from 500 to 600 people.
In one town of 1000 people there are
less than 100 left, nearly all women and
children. The slaughter was unsparing;
even Greeks and SVrisns were struck
down with the Armeniaus. Entire
families were burned to death in their
homes. Hundreds of girls and women
we're maltreated aud carried of to the
hsrems, where the women were separat-
ed from the men,
The correspondent was informed thit
at one place party OF 100 Armeuisns
surrendered to the soldiers. The prison
ers were taken to an open field, when
the women were ordered TO stand apart
from the men. Everyone of the men
vas then shot la macy cases they
we're killed with their women ciuging
to them, trying to save tneir lives. A
large number of women were wounded
because OF their persistence. Sixty men
who we're brought down into this dis
trict from Hadjin are now held as
slaves.
Young Turks around TarsuS are
trading Armenian girls among each
other for horses and modern repeating
rifles.
The entire 10 days seem to have been
an insensste orgy of lust aud violence in
the name of race aud religion. There
have been numerous instances of the nur-
deriog of women and children With de-
liberation, and there are other instances
where women were brought out one by
one and shot down, the bystsnders clap
ping their hands at each fresh execution.
The authorities are giving four cents
day for each refugee 10 Tarsus. There
are about 4, 900 refugees here.
The yard of the American mission
house looks like prison pen. The men
wander around all night trying to keep
warm. The women and children sleep
at night on the floors of the schOolrOoms.
Very few of them have beds.
The Armenian population of the viii
! lage of Koz1look was put to death.
The governor of the district promised
to protect the Armenisns if they would
give up their arms. This the Arme-
mans decided to do after long parley.
Then, under pretense of taking them to
place of safety, they we're led out from
the village under escort to an open field.
Here the men we're ruthlessly killed and
the women subjected to msllreatmeut.
A number of Armenian girls we're forced
to marry Turks.