The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1916-02-10
A7ROC|TY
Of TURKS TOLD
BY MISSIONARY
Dr.. Jacob Sargis Describes Do.
ing to Death Of Fellow
Physician by Moslems: Al.
menis Scene of Outrages.
IAssocis,ed Press correspopdenc,l

escopinp death n, the I'M of tho
Turks aud Kurds in TRUMAN. Persian
Armenia. ASSERTS that among the out.
RACES committed auainy, the Christian
refugees was the burning to death of
nm American doctor named simon or
Shimmun. as n, was known there. His
identity was not further established.
but the story of the outrage, as told By
Dr Sprgis. wa, A. follows;
pr. Sh.mmun was I'm the village of
Supurgham when the Turks attacked
that place. He was among those ~ lte
took refuge on "A mountain near the
lakes. lie was CAPTURED and told that
since ne had been , good doctor and
had helped the wounded, they would
not xiii him hut that he mus, accent
he Mohs mmedan faith. n. refused
nm almost all Christian. did. They
poured oil on him, and before appl,ins
the torch. they gave MIN another
cha nee to forsako his religion. AKA, N
he refused and they So, his clothes
anre. While running Ia agony from
the ia mes. the Turks shot him several
times After he fell to the ground I'M
conscious they hacked his head off
Mr.. Allen, an american missionary.
who wen, from village To village bury
,nr Inc yictitns OF this butchery. found
Tn, body of Shimmun half eaten by
dogs.
The Catholic mission ,her. took
$50 Christians of ali sorts and kent
I them IN , small room and tried To
.ave hem. bu, at l.as, forty.nine of
them. among them one BISHOP Dinkha
of the Eplscopnl mission. were bound
! together one night. taken To- Gagin
mount,in and there hot down
Dr. Sargis was born ia Persia bat
ent to America IN 1893, and was cd
ucatcd there 10y assistance OF pr W r.
Oldham. iormcr bishop OF india. He
IL a Graduate OF OHIO wesleyan u
ohio Medical university and Was Tor
u timeses,dcnt physician Of the Prot
cstant hospital nj Columbus. -.
Dr.. Sargis Was doing relief work in
Trumias on January | last year when
the Russian army retired from that
city. followed by 1900 refugees from
urumiah and y hundred surrounding
villages. The hardships aud suncrinHs
endured by those refugees were de-
scrlbei IN Associated Press dispatches.
There we're still left In TRUMAN and
| the villages 5000 persons, chiefly Ar
! menian refugees when the TURKS and
Kurds entered Tho latter AT once be.
gan the work of determination Of the
Christian population In one tow a
alone. Gulfarchin In n night. az
cording To Dr. Saruis. seventy nine
mes and boys were tied hand to hand,
taken to q hill outside the village and
shot Their wives and daughters were
distributed among the TurNs, hurds
and Persian Mohamm"dails.
DR.. Sargis' story continues:
"On the second day after the Turk
ish officers can. they had n good many
wounded and sick. As soon az thcy
! heard that wa an able physician.
| they DOL me. gave me a b~odyguard
and nut m. IN chPrge OF the TRUMAN
, hospital. THAI, was how came to
learn mos, of their secrets, | helped
their wounded and sicA. oac day
! there were sixty men brought from
nashknL all weil-to.do citizens. som.
| of them noted men of that place. they
| v.rc used ns beasts of burden. force |
Ia carry rolls Of barbed wire into uru-
| miah. The next day they wer. all
taken to the castle OF Isrnayil and
| every one was shot or hacked Ia death
About that time Nuri. the governor
| of GaVr. told me thai he had received
| word from the Turkish commander. To
XIII all the Armenian soldiers IN IN.
Turkish army. lie said that for my
sake he would not de 1t, but that some
BODY else would, Twenty-ninc were
killcI about fifteen miles from tru-
miah a. Karmad. We had eight at
| them in the city. fine fellows. some of
J them educated in Beirut. They mad
been disarmcd. and one night they
took them to the suburbs and shot
them. But one of them, named As
lam. escaped lie dropped with the
| others but was no hit. After the
| butchers left he ma IL his way 90 the
! Presbyterian mission college. | was
notified and asked Ia take care oi him.
kept him unit. the Russian army
! caine. lie Joined and is nov lighting
with them.
In the First Turkish corps, com
manded by khalil Bcy. there were
about zoe Armenians. one of them.
! Gulbankyan. u graduate of Beirut.
| told me tina, they were all doomed To
Ne b~utchercd when they appointed
| me head physician OF the hospital they
| gave me plenty OF helpers, including
seven Christian nurses. six Arabs and
| IN. n,a.k EnlhunkNa tnId M. thai