Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-05-07
$4,000 DEAD AND
$4,000 HOMELESS
AFTER MASSACRE
ACCOUNTS OF HORROR IN TURKISH
PROVINCES HAVE BEEN ONLY
HALF TOLD.
ADANA Is STILL LAWLESS,
Ten Days in April an Insensate Orgy of
Lust and Violence in Name of
Race and Religion.
GREEKS AND sYRIANs MURDERED

ADANA, Monday, May (via Lar
naca, Cyprus, May 4)-Adana is still
lawless More people were killed in the
city yesterday. There are 10000 dead
in Adana province as result of the mas
sacres, and $4,000 homeless and penni-
less refugees are wandering in the villa
yet.
The deaths in Adana city alone are
estimated at $500. Adana is terrorized
by 1000 soldiers who are looting, shoot
ing and burning. No respect is paid to
schools have been destroyed and it is
feared that the American school, COM
mercial and missionary interests IN
Adana are totally ruined.
The new vail has not as yet inspired
confidence There is reason to believe
that the authorities still intend to per-
NIT the determination of all Christians.
The troops here are making u pretense
of throwing water" on the flames; liz
stead Of water they use kerosene, and
are thus purposely adding to the con-
fagration. Apprehension is felt here
regarding the American missionary sta
tons at Hadjin and Tarsus.
Details Are Sickening.
TARSUS, May 4.-Authentic details
of the atrocities committed by the ia
natical Mohammedans in the villages
and farms in this district are now COM
ing in TO Tarsus with sickening album
dance. The worst particulars OF these
narratives cannot be mentioned, but they
set forth without doubt that at least
10000 persons lost their lives in this
province, and some estimates place the
total casualties at $4,000.
Villages like Omanieh, Bazsche, Ha-
madi. Kariea, Kriestian, Keoy and kes-
olook were actually wiped out Each
Of NIL ho6 from
500 to 600 people. In one town OF
1000 people there are fewer than 100
left, nearly all women and children.
The slaughter was unsparing. Even
Greeks and Syrlans were struck down
with the Armenians. Entire families
were burned to death in their homes.
Hundreds of girls and women were mall
treated and carried off to the harems.
The correspondent was informed that
at one place a party of 100 Armenlans
surrendered to the soldiers. The prison
ers were taken to an open field, where
the women were ordered to stand apart
from the men. Every one of the men
was then shot In many cases they were
done to death with their women cling
ing to them, trying to save their lives.
A large number of women were wound
ed because of their persistence
Trade Girls for Horses.
Sixty men who were brought down
into this district from Hadjm are now
held as slaves. Young Turks around
Tarsus are trading Armenian girls for
horses and modern repeating rifles. The
entire ten days seem to have been an
insensate orgy of lust and violence in the
name of race and religion. In the mas
sacres of fourteen years ago there was
no such desire to kill women and chill
dren as has been evidenced in the last
ten days. Now, however: there have
been numerous instances of the murder
ing of women and children with deliber-
alton. and there are instances where
women were brought out one by
one and shot down, the bystanders clap
ping their hands at each fresh execu-
ton.
Mission Like Prison.
The yard of the American - mission
house looks like a prison pen. The men
wander around all night trying to keep
warm. The women and children sleep on
the floors of the school rooms. Very
few of them have beds.
In the day time the men sleep usually
curling up in the sunshine outside. There
have been four births at the mission
since the refugees came IN.