Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-11-01
ARMENIAN MASSACRE HORRORS
Former Ambassador to Turkey Paints
Graphic Pictures.

One million Armenians, torn from
their homes without warning and driv-
en- with bayonets into the desert TO die
of thirst and starvation, is the picture
Ambassador Morgcnthau draws in his
story in the November Worlds Work.
Massacres, as we have been accustom-
ed to think of them, accompanied this
wholesale eviction, In all their -eustom-
ary horror, but they were incidental to
the Turkish governments larger
scheme of the mass murder of an en-
tire race. The following extract from
Mr.. Morgenthaus article gives some Of
: the details of this great holocaust in
history:
| The gendarmes would appear be-
fore an Armenian house and order all
the inmates to follow them. They
would take women engaged in their
domestic tasks without giving them a
chance to change their clothes. Even
women who had just given birth to
children would be forced to leave their
beds and join the panic-stricken
! throng, their sleeping babies in their
arms. To their frantic questions,
Where are we going?" the gendarmes
would vouchsafe only one reply, TO
the interior.
Roads Throngcd With Exilcs.'
For the better part of six months,
from April to October, 1916, practical
ly all the highways in Asia Minor were
crowded with these unearthly bands of
cXiles. They could be seen winding in
and out OF every valley and climbing
Iup the sides of nearly every mountain
moving on and on, the scarcely
knew whittier, except that every road
led to death. Village after village and
town after town was evacuated of its
Armenian population, under the dis
tressing circumstances already detail
cd. In these six months. as far as can
be ascertained, about 100000 people
started on this journey to the Syrian
desert.
PRAY for u.s. they would say, as
they left their homes-the homes in
which their ancestors had lived for
$500 years. We shall not see you In
this world again, but some time we
shall meet Pray for u.s.
When they had Travelled few hours
from their starting place the Kurds
would sweep down from their noun
tain domes. Rushing up to the young
girls they would lift their wells and
carry the pretty ones off to the hills.
Local vagabonds were permitted to
prey upon the Armenian girls.
For five days one band which orgi-
nally contained $4,000 refugees did not
have a morsel of bread or a drop OF
water. Hundreds fell dead on the
way the report reads. their tongues
were turned to charcoal and when. at
the end Of five days they reached a
fountain. the whole CONVOY naturally
men barred the way and forbade them
to take a single drop of water. Their
purpose was to sell 1t at from one to
three liras a cup. and sometimes they
actually withheld the water after get
ling the money.
Drank From Polluted Wells.
AT another place, where there were
wells some women threw themselves
into them, as there was no rope or pail
to draw up the wafer These women
were drowned, and. in spite Of that,
the rest Of the people drank from that
we'll, the dead bodies still remaining
there and polluting the water. Some
times. when the wells were shallow
and the women could go down into
them and come out again. the other
people would rush to lick or suck their
wet. dirty clothes in the effort to
quench their thirst.
ION the SEVENTEEN day a few crea-
lures reached Aleppo. Out Of the COM
bined convoy Of $4,000 souls just 15C
women and children reached their des.
tination."