The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-05-01
AMERICANS SHOT
IN AOANA STREETS
FIGHTING FLAMES
Graphic Description of Deaths
of Missionaries Rogers
and Manrer.
TRYING TO SAVE GIRLS
IN BURNING BUILDING
Stephen R. Trowbridge Sends
Account of the Moslem Out
RACES to Grand Vizier.

CoNSTANTINOPLE, May 1.--Steph-
American Board of Commissioners for
Foreign Missions, was the only Ameri-
can or European to witness the killing
in Adana of D. M. Rogers and Henry
Maurer, fellow missionaries He has
supplied the following account of the
occurrence, dated Adana, April "A, to
to representatives of the grand vizier.
Mr.. Trowbridge says:
:. Firing and fighting began April IA
between Moslems and Armenians,
which resulted in number Of casual
ties on both sides. BY nightfall 1t was
clear that incendiaries were at work,
for several districts of the city were
covered by clouds OF smoke which rolled
out far into the country. where vine-
wards and country houses also were
burning All night long the reports of
firearms rang out from all sides. The
roofs and parapets Of houses. midarets,
windows, with shutters, and other am
buscades were used. The most persist
ent and dangerous fusillade came from
one of the minarets On the border of the
Armenian quarter.
Driven from Girls school,
s"The next morning, April Is, the con-
fiagrations had spread to such an ex-
tent that we were obliged to watch
closely the environs of the building Of
the girls school and the residence Of
William N. Chambers. AL the streets
We're deserted, and the firing from
ambuscades was kept up all the morn
ing.
"a fresh outburst Of smoke near the
girls school showed that we were
threatened by fire. The wind famed
the flames and drove them from house
to house in our direction. Up to that
time no one had dared to go on the
streets because of the shooting from
one end by Moslems and the other by
Armenians. Moslern pillagers, armed
! ana In desperate mood, were lootinS the
houses opposite the buildings on fire
THE real danger that pressed upon
our minds was not the possible loss OF
the school building, but the perilous
| situation in which our American
friends, the hundreds of Christian
refugees and the eighty schoolgirls
would find themselves in case the
building burned. In every direction
there was rioting and shooting. There
was no refuge. except possibly In the
Protestant church, some distance away.
and even this was threatened from
three sides by the confagration.
Rogers aud Manner shot.
so we came back to the school and
asked for volunteers. We had worked
considerable time. without being
harmed by the Moslems when the Ar
menians at the other end of the street
commenced firing on the houses where
the looters were at work. Suddenly two
shots rang out not more than eight
yards from where we were working
Mr.. Rogers, who was In the street
bringing water, was mortally wounded.
He called to me by name. and then fell
In the middle of the street. The other
bullet hit Mr.. Maurer in the LEFT lung
near the heart, a wound that caused
him to suffer great pain.
Immediately after these two shots
several other bullets from the Moslems
who had fired them whizzed past me. l
dropped almost fiat on the roof and
made my way to the edge. whence 1
could see Mr. Maurer climbing down
the ladder with the greatest difficulty.
could also hear Mr.. Rogers groaning
Soldiers Too Late.
"Just then the British vice-consul at
Mersina, Major Daughty-Wylie, ar
rived with twenty Turkish soldiers on
q tour of the city. They rode up and
found Mr.. Rogers and Mr.. Maurer lying
wounded In the street. The entire
neighborhood was deserted The soldiers
were ordered to the roofs to fire In
several directions, but by this time the
uurderers had disappeared.
''Mr. Maurer died a few minutes later
in the school building. and Mr.. Rogers
lived only few minutes longer than
Mr.. Maurer. He did not regain con-
sciousness."