New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-05-07
SAYS %, 900 WERE SL4IN.
Missionary Certain That -4dana Of
fciaEs 4cquieSced in Massacre,

Adana. Asiatic Turkey. April IS Cvia CONSTANT
nope. May 6).-The Rev. stephen r. Troworidge.
missionary OF the American Board of Commission
ers for Foreign Missions, estimates the number of
Armenans killed in the province Of Adana since
the outbreak of the rioting at twenty-three thou
sand. Continuing, the missionary said to-day;
a conservative estimate of the Christians killed
in the city Of Adana is three thousand. Not less
than twenty thousand persisted in the towns and
villages Of the province The surviving Armenians
in the entire province are largely women and chill
dren. They amount TO about twenty-five thousand
souls and are to-day without homes, shops tools
clothing bread. a most pitiable and WreIched
multitude is passing up and down the streets OF
Adana like lost people. They throng the Dig rae
tory wards where a dole of flour is given out by
the relief committee. Crowds of broken hearted
women and children coming in from the country
to even greater misery in the city
Mr. TroWbridge. writing further of the occur
rences at Adana. especially with reference to the
attitude of the Turkish authorities says:
We understand from consular kilograms that the
sublime Porte has assured the ambassadors at CON
stsnnopie tnd[ o, ffv casualties and the burning
OF houses, and that the Porte declaie tt al
a rurnor spread among the ArmenianS on Ap[ll -
that massacring by the LuThS az ar fdefence a
I,oIeI OF shots was fired from the roofs OF Shrs-
ian houses This in turn was interpreted IN the
Sfsia, quarters as an attack, and the word spread
like widfire that the Armenlans were III IeNol' anu
SHhseouent events have shown clearly that the
aCQuieSCed II II Ola not AZ any
vertebrate in the cruel and indlscrImlnate Assaults
mitch we're thereupon made by nre, rlle ana S""I u
mon the entire Armenian community, including our
T5r,testsnt congregation which. as a BODY. mas
-, wholly loval 10 the government Two Christian
6na~ters declared that horsemen came in at inter,
Ills from outlying and villages and reported
- tho military authorities follows: 'ttdIndleh i
,5rie5e5 or '"Osminiyeh is finished. meaning OF
tl,1rse that the Armenian populations OF these
,loces had been put 10 the sword. Inc MILITARY
6ficers received this information as matter OF
course - ,robo,,a+ar NINA rot c
- ,eg,lar soldiers began shortly aiter noon OF
Ill !. AZ the very outset of the stTuSEle lhese
Iders kept UP a cruel fusillade into all parts oil
the Christian quarter
Continuing Mr.. Trowbridge related how ne mad
coached the Governor Of Adana by dash across
,be civ, carving Turkish flag and accompanied
nv Two Turks The Governor finally conferred with
his commandment. who ordered one hundred and
1fty troops, under Osman BeyI TO be dispatched TO
the American school
Arnanians begging refuge at government mead
quarters were killed in the market place villagers
who brought prisoners to the government head
quarters were asked. Why did you not finish these
tyaours in the villages: why nave you brought them
bere2' Fifty Arlnenians thrown into the river
above Adana and drowned.
II * Nj TroH bridges conviction that pot eN
listed 10 destroy the fifty thousand ArmenahS III
Adana Province, nearly one-haf Of whom were de-
stroyed