Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-04-29

mission by the Turks The mission
.ories stated that these men were
treated paaiy' and added that it was
known whether the priests were
killed.
A report had reached the Presby-
terian missionaries at Tabriz that
Americans at Urumiah had been
forced to pay $4,000 as a ransom for
refugees who had fled to the mission
for protection. This report, 1t was
stated, had not been confirmed
These and other reports pertaining
TO Drumiah were related in two let
tcrs from DR.. w. :. Nanneman Of Sa-
lem, \. j., head Of the Presbyterian
mission hospital at Tabriz and chair
man Of the relief committee appoint
ed bya the American consul there,
500 MasSacrcd At once.
Writing from Tarriz under date Of
March IA, DR., Nanneman said:
About Ten days ago the Kurds in
Salinas. with the permission Of the
Turkish troops gathered all the Nest
orians and Armenian men remaining
there, it is reported. about 500. Four
| hundred were sent to Khosrova and
400 to Haft Dewan under the pre-
tense Of giving them Bread. They
were held a few days and then all of
/ them tortured and massacred. Many
of the women and children were ia
| ken away and i'll treated. This hap
Ipened a day or two before the ad-
| yaucng Russian army took Salinas. o
I'VE are very anxious about Jru-
miah \ letter dated March l from
| DR. Shedd Cthe Rev. Or. W. a. Shcdd
of Marietta. OhioD came through by
messenger two days ago. He said
| things were gcttingoworse Gulpashan,
which hitherto has not been dis
| turbed 10y the kurds as IT, had not
| fought against them, has been plum
| dcred and ruined. | think this was
| the only village WHICH remained. Eff
| ty-one of the most prominent men Of
/ this village were taken out at night
TO the cemetery and shot The women
ana girls who could not escape were
| mistroatcd. This was done by the
| Turkish soldiers
Forty Catholics Executed.
Forty men had been taken from
| the Roman Catholic mission in Uru-
miah city and shot There were 60
cases Of typhoid among the refugees
at the college.
Or Shedd asked the American
consul at Tabriz to come 10 Urumiah,
| but after consulting with three other
! Cousuls here il was decided it would
/ be impossible to get through. Mr.
! Paddock had tclcgraphed every pos
sihic place for assistance. We can do
nothing more
"Dr Shedd writes that not less
! than 500 had been murdered in Uru-
miah and not less than 1000 had
/ died of disease. This applies to Chris
| tians only. This is a very large per
] hgn q ha { III
| tians fled to Russia
Under date Of March 2l, Or. Van
neman wrote as follows:
I've are more anxious than ever
! about Urumiah. on the nth Turkish
! troops attacked our mission and the
! Roman Catholic mission and took five
native Russian priests from our COM
! pound and treated them badly. We
| do not know yet If they were killed.
| Mr. Allen was also treated badly be
! cause he had sent out three mossen-
gers. The gates of the Catholic mis-
| sion were burned and they were all
| i'm great danger. We received word
! from Ambassador MorEenthau that
| orders had been sent TO Urumiah to
protect Christians, but the order vas
! lust too late We are working to
| get all the remaining Christians away
! from Urumiah.
I Conditions Worse Than Known.
Some Of the native Christian
| preachers have been CrUcified and
! some burned, but these were of other
! denominations Or. Absolam's son Ca
| native physician) who had been
! buried three years was taken up and
! dshonored This was done 10y the
| owner of villages of which he was
! overseer This man has returned and
! is preaching a holy war.
If the Russian troops should be
! withdrawn again every Christian
would have to leave Tabriz.
Il do not believe the real condi-
ton of affairs is comprehended in
| America. II is practically the eXtermi-
nation of the Syrians (Nestorians)