Show t 8 STORY MASSACRES f i ii i IN ASIA MINOR Miss Elizabeth Webbs Experience Experience ence During the Hor Horrors Horrors Horrors at Adana MURDERED MEN BROUGHT INTO THE MISSION SCHOOL BRITISH CONSUL ONLY PROTECTION TION DAYS AND NIGHTS WAITING FOR SUCCOR vi a Asiatic Turkey May 1 via May MY Z Elizabeth Elisabeth H 11 a of the Amerian Amena Ameri Amen boara from Bunker Hill lIlli III lit has an In a written a It narrative of her experiences or r 11 mission board during the first fiRS jay avs f th the massacres ma in Adana Adams when girls girl school to which she was at attached attach th ih h gi tach 1 was WS in the greatest danger and h hP hO lives of the students were threat threatt nd t from all aU sides 9 She says our friends came to school chool as usual on II Wednesday April 21 1 although we weh h ard that there was waa a great deal of unrest in the city Soon firing began ind nd before noon things 8 were in such a au au u u condition that we e were afraid i s nd the day scholars home The Theirl juris irl were ere too excited to study We Tur elves tried to go on with our out an anIual anua ua meeting m ting but bat the reading of the re reTorts Torts was as interrupted by b the scream ng in the streets and the Two of rif our Turkish children were pres nt n and we thought It would be Ef ble bI to send word of our danger by a Turk who had bad come to take them thorn home note notes to their father and andi anda but there theren a i the governor were n re v no responses Night of Terror As night came on fires tires began to flare figie f ar up in all directions and we were ere that the would break into the school Finally about 9 to our nur relief the English consul arrived If k had heard of or Ute the disturbances and ad had tome come from Mei Mersina n to investigate Th consul is Major Majer Daught Wylie H 11 stay sta only a moment but he hel l J ft tt three of his own guard of Turkish to take care C re of us ue usAll All 1 through the night we actually med to be in a state of siege The three e kept firing their Martinis and d the fire was returned from the minaret bouse boue t the th mern H g our or gu uart r that men en enn n ii 1 the minaret fire t thad had ad been returning were Turkish sol eel soldiers diers dier and that others who had been firing upon us were friends whom we MI by name Finally in spite of o the live fact that the consul had said they must main until he h returned the guard limbed the wall and ran away In T the meanwhile the fires about the it ity had increased and the sound of shooting hooting could be heard from every i int At last the consul passed pas ed He Heas Heva Hea va as a able to spare spaTe only one man Soon the consul onsol left us fires tires broke out ni the th adjacent streets We e had hung flag ag on all sides of oC the building but This tins did not stop the thousands engaged iii In the riots from firing their weapons a though apparently they were not di dl dieted eted dd against us u Dead Men Brought In Our only safety seemed to be to hook the flame flames We e women woman and girls a riled nied water while the men cut down tn Ih fences Ines fenC s A shed on OR the lbs east side of or Ih I street treet was also torn dews About tK thi time we e wee horrified JM to learn hat Mr r Rogers and Mr Ir Maurer had h ven n shot hot while fighting the fire They TP re brought into our dining room Mr Maurer r already was wu dead and Mr Rog fr S only lived a few minutes The Rev st nh n R Cambridge who 00 was near cm at the time escaped although a aIU IU t took off his hat hatOur hatOur Our ou guard of one te man next r things looked pretty dark I Ito Ii Ia i a Pl to my toy room where the girls were For me to tell teU them what had happened d would only came a panic so 90 I 1 aid id We have done all we can now t I u pray pra u Kf fore I J had finished praying the up of the consuls OIs guard and the theM M h officials officiate whom he M was g e sounded in the street Widow Waiting for Her Dead 1 tort fort he be could not spar 81 s 8 art rJ for us U but promised to send one mediately It I was a terrible n a women omen and girls girte gi atone alone alonet t building a murderous blood Tty iru mob nob outside with knife and andt t for fr the Americans America To add to the ther thery r ry there were the dead on the floor J ami the widow of oC one of oC them bem Tr 11 R gers with an Infant ten weeks d i fort we had been finally died out eat but fires could couldn n fl i ir in all parts of the city and the thed d I rr f shooting was W constant The TM Iad h d promised ed ue us a guard t t n ne came The Ibe following day we wear went ar TH nt that Major had ht hoot in m the arm urn T TIa at night young men from the Gre Gren Grea ran a n Ii and Protestant conference pa paL pad L fd J d the th streets around our building T was ws grave A great crowd Continued on Page 2 GIRLS STORY OF MASSACRES IN ASIA MINOR Continued from Page 1 composed of or soldiers and others bent on plundering had bad gathered at the rear of oC II I our house houe for or an attack Our only de defendant j I was as a guard of or I 1 young Armenians A steady Ore fire was i kept up tAt oil both sides side but hut that of our i iy young youns y unS men melt was as intended only OBly to frighten the crowd and If It to drive them away aJ Our Armenians called to these below We are brothers brothen dont fire f awl and iUt asked I them to send one man to confer with a representative of our nor side I Surrender Meant Death i io This was agreed a reed to but in place Jace of o one man inan hundreds started to come They demanded that we e give She up our arms anna but with nith that angry mob this meant certain vertain death Finally Mr lr talked with them from a window Indo This too failed The greatest te t danger dallIer of coui OUIe couise e was s for the girls and anti we 1 decided to take them Um to Mr Cham Chambers hers bers n hou hoa house Seemingly without fear they marched out in order two and two o across the street to the house of ot Miss Wallace the English nurse where they the arrived in safety I cannot describe de the Ute crowd cowd the t noise nol e and confusion in this house houte and andard andard yard ard Refugees crowded crowd ad everywhere Mr r returned from the school to say laY that the only hope of ot safety to any Americans seemed to be beto beto beto to return to the school staying there alone aloIN separated from the Armenians Armenian He declared that we were ere powerless to save ave the Armenians After we e left the school Miss Wallace Mr Ir Chambers Chamber and a young Armenian preacher at attempted attempted attempted I I tempted to cross the street from Miss Misa Wallaces to the tM school Just at this time a mob rushed around the Ute corner orner I The infuriated Turks Turu recognized the tM preacher as an n Armenian and although Mr Ir Chambers threw his arms anns about him they shot him dead Not ot a single Armenian would they leave alive tine the th assassins shouted as Mr Ir Chambers dragged the body of the murdered I preacher into the building I Finally Stopped I Miss Webb related how ItOw Mr Ir bridge persuaded four to go 0 with ith him to the tI government house to demand protection Two of them de do deserted sorted him on 00 the way declaring they the were afraid of bein being killed by assassins I Everywhere w was as confusion at the gov gO government j eminent house houle and after a long delay delaya I a detachment of 10 troops was ells dis dispatched I patched to their relief In concluding her narrative Miss Webb says I IThe I IThe The British consul sent ent a to the governor on Friday that if this thin thing was not stopped he would demand of or the government and the commander of the troops a satisfactory explanation Whether or not ot they were powerless to I t stop the dreadful work before this I do donot donot I Inot not know kuo but an any way wa It was then stopped topped S Miss Elisabeth Webb gives the vivid narrative of the Ute fighting at I Adana was S sent to Turkey In 1886 by bythe i Ute the American board of commissioners for tor foreign missions She was ws w s born at Bunker Hill Hili III Ill and later latar moved to Missouri She is a graduate of Drury college e Springfield Mo Io I |