Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-05-09

day. For while 1t was unsafe to leave the
premises, and none OF these could be buried
but later when the way was opened one mis-
sionary was kept busy most OF the time attend.
Ing to the burial Of the dead
Then there was the still more trying work
OF looking up captured girls and trying to get
them restored to their families, and other work
which only one who has been In such circum.
stances can describe. And from now on there
Is even more to do. For these people must be
sent back and started once more In their plum.
dered homes, many Of which have been entirely
destroyed"
In a long letter written by Mr.. Larabee the
same missionary, 20. F. Willoughby Smith,
American Consulate. Tifis, he gives two pic.
lures Of the flight OF the Christians from Persia:
II doubt whether the story OF this awful
flight can ever be told. Few tales that have
ever heard can compare with 1t In heart.rend-
ing interest The whole northern section OF
the Urumfa plain learned OF the departure Of
the Russian troops about 10 o'clock on Satur-
day night. January 2. BY midnight the terrible
exodus began and by morning the Christian
villages OF that district were practically de.
serted. People left their cattle in the stables
and all their household goods In their homes
just as they were and hurried away to save
their lives. II anyone possessed horse or a
donkey or any other beast Of burden he was
fortunate. and IL he happened to have ready
cash in his home he even more SO; but
well to do as man may be, cash Is not always
on hand IN the villages. and many who &C.
cording to the standards Vi the country were
rich started on their long journey with mere
pittance, and the vast majority of men and
women and children were on foot.
Il. An old man with two daughters. in.lny
and six grandchildren started on that fatal
night from the village Of Karagoes All were
afoot, and the women carried their little ones
by turns. while the old man stumbled along as
best he could, unable to carry any burned. He
at last gave out, lay down by the roadside and
died. The two women and their little charges
pressed on for day or two longer. when ons
Of them gave birth to baby, also by the road.
side. The mother tore off her dress, wrapped
the baby in the pieces and resumed the weary
tramp Fortunately Ger them, the two women
found their husbands -aitng for them in Rus.
sian Jufa but, alas! the new complications
arising from the coming OF the baby two OF the
other children we're separated from the party
and lost. Two days the parents waited in Julia
until wagonload of little waits were brought
IN by the kind-hearted soldiers. They found
their two little ones among the number, but so
emaciated by their hardships that they died
shortly afterward. People dying and children
being born by the way are common phases of
this journey. but It Is not everyone that has
had combination Of such misfortunea
q. Here ia another instance no less sad: ,
The pastor of our Cost congregation set out, as
others. In the dark alone with his wife and
married daughter and q fveyear-old grand. |
daughter, but became separated from them
very soon, SO that the women were compelled