Show I MASSACRE CONTINUES AT AI ADANA Horrible Scenes Enacted in Streets in Chris Anti tian Riots TWO MISSIONARIES FROM AMERICA DEAD Reports C Cause use Anxiety in United States and Hasten Turl Turkish sh Troops MERSINA Asiatic Turkey April 16 The The massa massacre re of ot Armenians at Adana continues The troops are arc powerless to control the tho situation and some somo of ot tho the soldiers are JoIn joining ng the pillage of tho the city This information was received here by telegraph graph from Adana this aft aft- BERLIN April 16 A A dispatch received re reo today at nit Mersina from rom Adana dana says that city has been aflame alam since last last- sd e Wednesday y evening and that horrible massacres are being c carried crrie out on tho the streets This information f at was convoyed convoyed con con- voyed to Berlin in a private cablegram from fOrn Mersina CONSTANTINOPLE April 16 r Li In Information formation received here today from Adana in Asiatic Turkey declares that two American missionaries have been killed WIled in the Armenian anti outbreak at that pl place e. e The Tho Moslem fanaticism against the Christians of Adana appears to have broken out ont afresh Tho Moslem fi fighting fight ht ing U commenced yesterday and continued throughout hout the ni night ht One Ono report says l that sixty Armenians lost their Ih lives s sand and that man many houses have been looted and burned Tho The Bible Dible house is also without direct direct di di- information The Tho missionaries mil of tho the district are aro at pre present nt at Adana daDa for forthe tho the rt regular gular district meeting Thc They are Mr Ir and Mrs rs William Chambers the tho Misses Webb Mig Mis Ii Wallis and Miss Borel Bore Mr Ir Christy is at Tarsus Mrs r Chambers is a sister of Talc tt Williams of the tho Philadelphia Press The government go has hIS given assurances that it is doin doing its ih best beet to rest restore oro order order or or- der at Adana and to protect foreigners additional onal troops are aro bein being sent in There Thoro i is no confirmation of the death of tho the two American missionaries Their names are aro not given iven in the di dispatch die dis patch pItch received here The British vice ice consul at Mersina has proceeded to Ada Adana n a. a Not at Mersina Tho The first news of this Christian anti outbreak said the scene f was was' Wasl M l but this was erroneous Tho rho trouble occurred at Ada Acla Adana a a. a which is about thir six ty-six miles inland from Crom Mersina The early arly reports were declared to ha have ve been exaggerated and messages es recci received here bere yesterday e evening said faid that only ton ten Armenians had been killed that ll martial artial law low had been at Adana and md that reinforcements of troops were bf being sent in from Beirut This late intelligence refers to disorders that took place after tho tIme situation was supposed to have quieted down American Consul Goes es has had no di direct direct di di- news of the reported killing n o of the two American missionaries He Ho has instructed instructed in in- tho the American vice vicer consul at nt Mersina na John Debbas to proceed immediately immediately im im- im mediately to Adana and to report retort on the situation Railroad communication between be be- tween Mersina and aud Adana appears to be interrupted Adana Mann is a station of the American I board of commissioners commissioner for foreign n missions mis mis' missions with a n orkin working force of five o missionaries mis mis- an and two thirty-two native workers work work- ers ers- an Out station of the tho synod o of the ormed Reformed Presbyterian church in North America and a I Dible Bible depot and sub sub- agency of t the e Am American ri nn Bible society The American missionaries there under un tier der the control of tho American board of missions are the tho He William William Wil Wi- liam ham Chambers and aDd wife and md the tho Misses Webb two sisters Adana AdaDa is a n city of people and andis andis andis is the thc seat of government o of the tho province pro i ince co of ot the same sarno name Dame The people are arc mostly dans but th there re is a considerable number of Christians Christian in including jn- jn in- in eluding Arm Armenians and a 1 small Greek community CHICAGO CONGREGATION MAINTAINS MISSIONARIES MAINTAINS MISSIONARIES CHICAGO April 16 AssocIated Associated Press Continued on pa page e 10 MASSACRE Continued from page pace 1 dispatches from rom Constantinople created alarm In Congregational church circles s to to- to day Among th the tho Rt at AdMit Adana some somo om of oC whom hom ar are orp re TC tel slain arc tho the Rev nc William N. N Chambers and nd his wife wife- who nr nrC maintained hy by h the First Con Congro- Congro rc- rc church of ot Oak ORk Park an nn stO suburb of or this ell city under the auspices of or the American board of or com corn commissioners missioners for or foreign missions Mr Ir Chambers Is s 70 years o of n ego ago c and has been In Turkey 1879 Mis 1 Elizabeth S. S Webb and Miss Mis tan Mary G. G Gehb Webb sisters sister whose T o homo home I la Is In Missouri Mis Mis- Missouri Ils- Ils also are ara at nt Adana |