| Show MASSACRE NEW YORK nov NOT I althe abe following statement in taken from private leiten f received by agent ajlman in ID this abi otty city la in regard to 0 o the lie recent disturbance in treble ind ad turkey the excitement in ond began about october 2nd and when an attempt was made on the life of the ex vall vail of van vad he was waa shot and wounded by an armenian armenian revolutionist who has not yet been captured and la in supposed by me lne government to be concealed somewhere in the city until monday october jtb matters seemed to be quieting down when RD ao incident stirred up the excitement anew on the previous oun oue friday night the son of a leading turk of the t tawn w v was wounded on the street some say bay by one of his hie own companions j there others that he be was shot by so an armenian whom be was trying to arrest on monday be died and the funeral re be excitement in an intensified form and loud and many were the threats threat of massacre that thai night anu and hundreds of the Armen Armeni armenians ians aos rushed to places lof safety the next morning october ath aih all dispersed in the hope bone that the danger was waa passed men went to their shops hops and were encouraged to open them themas as not done for two or three days previous suddenly like a clap ot of thunder in a clear sky the trouble rouble began uc people walking along the streets were shot esely down men standing or sitting quietly at their shop doors were instantly dropped with a bullet through their beaus or hearts their aim was deadly and I 1 have heard of no do wounded men some were gashed with swords until lire life was extinct they passed through the quarters where only old men women ano anci children remained killing billing the men and large boys generally per the women and younger children to live for five hours this horrid work of inhuman butchery oo on the crack lag ing of musketry mae ketry sometimes like a volley from a platoon of but more single shots frum from near anil and distant spots pots the abe cracking in of doors anti and the abud of sword blows blown sounded on 00 our ears then the sound of musketry died away and the he work of looting loosing began every shop hop of an armenian Arm eolan in 10 the market was gutted and the victors la in this cowardly coir ardly and brutal way glut ted themselves with the spoils for hours bales bale os OB broadcloth cotton goods and every conceivable kind ot of met mer chitti dise pawed passed along without molestation to the bomes 01 the he spoilers pollen agthe abe intention was evidently to impoverish and as ai nearly as a possible to blot out oat the armenians Armen ians of this town so bo far as ai appearances appearance went the police anu and soldiers distinctly aided IS JB savage work not one of the she permetra tore ton of woss these outrages has been arrest ed d or disarmed but all have moved about with the utmost freedom to ac com their not nefarious arious purposes on trio the other head babodi many of the armenians Armen ians are in prison while I 1 write the wails of the newly bereaved fall on my earr some borne in suspense au wait to know the laie JULIO of their missing one othlen it rejoice at greeting WOM them again throngs fill the schools under forel itri prot tolon and the consulates there Is no toiling telling bow many have perished four hundred Is a moderate estimate probably that thai figure will rise knob higher and bow bo far the massacre masamore will weep sweep through the villages remains to be seen almon LONDON nov 1 la A dispatch from constantinople to the she times which will be published tomorrow to worrow says ny that having put the armenian question on the track or of settlement ettle menti alamil pasha has bae asked the sultan to him of the grand which has bai exhausted him blin anu antl which demands the physical and mental energies of a younger mon man the sultan in reply peremptorily declared that he be could not dot dispense with his services the dispatch adds that official news newe has been received in constantinople of 01 fresh freab disturbances in Erzo Er or fah fab and fifty persons have been killed and wounded at |
