Show colored statesman Stat esmau called home his demise was sudden letter on the armenian atrocities washington DO feb SO fiedar ick douglasb Dou glasa tha noted Iret dinan ora tor and diplomat died a few initiates before 7 tonight at his residence at Aua coata a of this city of feurt failure his death waa entirely unexpected aa he had been enjoying the best of health during the afternoon he attended the convention of the women of the united now in progress in thia cit yand chatted with annaa B anthony and others of the leading members with whom he bad been on intimate terms fur many awa when he returned home he ing of any feeling of illness ill nesa he expressed himself as beine a little exhausted from the climb up the leading aiom the street to bit hauae which ia on a high terrace he aaa down and chatted with his wife about the women at the convention suddenly he clapped bis bands to his heart and fell back unconscious A doctor was baa tilly summoned and arrived within a few moments bat the efforts to him were boneless from the first within twenty minutes after the attack the faint motion of the heart ceased entirely and the great ex alave statesman was dead armenia Air ocies ST louis mo feb 21 tha republic published the following from moosa asia minor eia minor Jan tha number of our dead countrymen in the four towns visited by pasha will not be far short of thia is from tha bodies counted and known to have perished we cannot ell bow maev others may be the first town entered by waa it contains four villair oa chinik mears and djay when ocr people here herd of tho arrival ol 01 the banha father johannia with forty of the leading townsmen went to meet him to beseech baye mercy upon them they were nr rounded by soldiers long before they could baaba and every one wai killed their bodies were put in the church and burned then they proceeded to burn the villages tha number killed in chinik proper numbered and from the rest of the villages those who are now in the villages Til lages surrounding this town but tha villagers are themselves very poor nd may go hungry Moo shir baaba left chinik to go to the next town in the district abig town is alyon and has fourteen fourte sn villages the people beard of bis corn ing and that ha bad twenty four companies each of four hundred men besides twenty three cannon chev know that it wag useless to appeal to him so they fled to the village of obi because of its rocks and steppes Bt eppes and there they coald better escape him they stayed ia the mountains for almost twenty days aad when all food waa roue and there waa nothing left they fled as beat they coula two thousand bodies were left at chi gali gazan was next and because the town had twenty four villager vill agea around it mohabir brought burds kurds ah caider and irregulars irre eulars numbering 30 00 the town was for abe people with all abe food they could carry had fled to ane mountains they stayed in their for thirty days and at last with a frenzy born of hunger and despair dee pair they made a terrible rush down abe mountain side fand attacked abe tyrants instead of waiting to bo killed patriot bartan was like a got and killed ten men with his own glord before he fell dead father bedoar was a soldier too and encouraged his children and when be was at baat killed bia body wag cut in end given to abe doga Alag was the last town that tho bloodthirsty blood thirsty tyrant visited and thi place contains villager vill agea gerein chaden Monr avar eonik and Davi drig the hoopla had for abe hobt part made their escape but when and his soldiers went th air way 1300 bodies were found many more were burned but their number cannot be known cloet of tha bodies efera left where they were butchered and those who would travel to this place must rink their lives through the pestilential odora that go up from BO many dead all who from district came to the villages of the plains of moosh and hungry destitute and broken hearted trev look for hopa and help and sympathy from the civilized world to whom tha news of their terrible lot may come |