The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-10-04

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and =, have been brutally deported
deprived OF all their possessions. &c
the deserts OF Mesopotamia. A great
number OF families have embraced
Accommodation to escape q certain
death.
ohieiai Report
June Is. 1915.
EXTRACT from an oficial report
The number OF people from ex
He'd to - 10 more than 5000: they
have been put In the Sandjak of -
or -. More than 10000 Arme.
mans that have been forced to emf
crate are thrown into the deserts
amidst nomadic tribes, leaving their
houses. gardens and titled lands 70
the Turkish mouhajirs. Deprived OF
all that they possessed. the unfortu.
nate people have not even any graves
for their dead.
AT - all the churches and
schools are full of exiled Armenians
Rich and poor. teachers and pupils
all are brothers there, victims of the
same blow. The inhabitants of the
city do their utmost to alleviate the
suffering. Those that are deported-
women. old men. children-are obliged
to cross the deserts on foot, under
the burning sun. often deprived OF
food and water. The most modest
complaint Is stified by the most bar.
baorus threats. Overpowered by IA.
ugue. exhausted by hunger. mothers
In despair leave on the way their new,
born children. often one-half year old
and continue their journey.
Even In this deplorable state rapes
and violent acts are everyday occur.
rences. The Armenians de.
ported from could not be recog
nized as result of their trip OF twelve
days.
Testimony Of Widow Of -.
, A week before anythink was done
TO -, the villages all around had
been emptied and their inhabitants
had become victims OF the gendarmes
and marauding bands. Three days be-
fore the starting of the Armenians
from =. after a weeks imprison-
ment. Bishop - has been hanged.
with seven other notables. After
these hangings. seven or eight other
notables were killed in their own
houses for refusing to go out of the
city. Seventy or eighty other Amen
ians. after being beaten in prison.
were taken 10 the woods and killed.
The Armenian population OF - was
sent on In three patches: was among
the third batch. My husband died eight
years ago. leaving me and my eight
year-old daughter and my mother ex-
tensive possessions. so that we were
living in comfort. Since mobilization
began, the - Commandant has been
living In my house free OF rent He
Vn0 ~ e. n a..
share the fate of my people took
tnree horses with me, loaded with pro-
visions. My daughter had some FIVE
Ira pieces around her neck. and / car
ried some twenty liras and four dia-
mond rings on my person. All else
that We had was left behind. Our
party left June 1 (old style), fifteen
gandermes going with us. The party
numbered four or five hundred per-
sons. We had got only two hours
away from home when bands OF viii
layers and brigands in large numbers.
with rifles. guns. axes. ect.. surrounded
us on the road and robbed us of all
we had. The gendarmes took my three
horses and sold them to Turkish mou-
hadJirs. pocketing the money. They
took my money and that from my
daughters neck. also all our food.
| After this they separated the men, one
by one. and shot them all within six
or seven days-every male above Is
years old. BY my side were killed two
priests, one of them over 90 years OF
age. These bandsmen took all the
goodlooking women and carried them
OF on their horses. Very many women
and girls were thus carried OF TO the
mountains, among them my sister.
whose one-year-old baby they threw
away; a Turk picked Il up and carried
II of. know not where. My mother
walked until she could walk no fur.
Their. and dropped by the roadside on
a mountain-top. We found on the road
many of those who had been I'm the
previous sections carried from -:
some women were among the killed.
with their husbands and sons We
also came across some old people and
little infants still alive. but in a pitt.
full condition. having shouted their
voices away. We were not allowed 10
sleep at night in the villages. but lay
down outside. Under cover OF the
night indescribable deeds were com
mitted by the gendarmes. bandsmen
and villagers. Many Of us died from
hunger and strokes OF apoplexy.
OAhFIh NFIt ny Aut lOdlhiuts 100
feeble TO go on.
One morning we saw fifty TO sixty
( wagons with about thirty Turkish wild
] Ows. whose husbands had been killed
| In the war: and these were going "a
| COnstantinople. one of these women
made a sign TO one OF the gendarmes
to kill p certain Armenian whom she
pointed out The gendarmes asked
J her II she did not wish to kill him
herself. a. which she said why not 20
and, drawing a revolver from her
pocket. shot and killed him Each
enc OF these Turkish hanums had Ave
or six Armenian girls OF ten or under
with her. Boys the Turks never
wished to take: they killed all. Of
whatever age. These women wanted
| 20 take my daughter. too but she
would not be- separated from me ~.
nally We we're both taken into their
wagons on our promising 10 become
Moslems. AZ soon az We entered the
ARABIA. they bcean 20 teach as how "a
be Moslems. and changed our names.
calling me - and her --
The worst and most unimaginable
horrors we're reserved for MS at tho
banks Of the Euphratcs and In the Er.
zinglan plain. The mutllated bodies
OF women. giris and little children