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Show FEARFUL DEATH RATE REPORTED N'ew- York April 9 "A fearful rate of mortality among the lO.OtiO refugees refu-gees crowded into the yards of the American mission at T'mmiah in which, it is said, five thousand persons per-sons could scarcely find accommodation. accommoda-tion. Is reported in a communication received here today through the state department at Washington by the Presbyterian board or foreign missions So great was the menace. It is said in the communication, that for a while it was unsafe for any one to leave the premises and consequent! 1 ihe bodies of dead could not be; buried Iter when the way was opened, the communication declares, ems mlssionarv was kept busy attending attend-ing to the burial of the dead. Forty Die Each Day. At tmvs on an average of fortv refugees died every day The f-ommunicatlon, which is a copy of one pent to F YV. Smith American consul at Ti fl is. Persia by Rev. Robert La Barre of Urumlah which described in detail the flight of Christians not onh from I-Tmtnlah ! but from all Azerbaijan provin.es after the withdrawal of the Russian troop. Thousands Left Behind. The communication says: "Of the thousands who were forced to remain behind, their HllagSB being so situated that flight was impossible, only the future can pive us a correct j roll of those murdered In cold blood and with cruel tortures by the Kurd, of Uie women and girls carried otf and of he children lost and the tarn i lies separated in the time of this terrible catastrophe. All who could, tied to the city and found the one shelter thai gave them the beat hope of snfon That was our American mission property, guarded by thej American fiaR." It is estimated." the communication communica-tion continues, "that In all 14.000 took refuge In our mission compounds at I rumiah. while :ioo0 more were given shelter ai the French mission Those a ho took refuge with us were unharmed, un-harmed, while villages were being plundered and burned and while hun dreds of lives were being lost " The communication then described how Dr. Packard, missionary physician physi-cian at the risk of his life conferred with' the Kurdish chiefs and begged that the liven of the persons In a ::enrbv village, which was being he-Sli he-Sli ged might be given to him Missionary Save Many. "He prevailed" 'he communication savs. 'and In the middle of the night! broucht into the city with him more than 1000 men. women and children.' The eommunication points out that all these refugees have to be fed three tons of bread hejn Deeded UHin ID l f' Ill- Ill MUMI c l I . aun "We cannot turn these people out later to Starve and we could not turn them out to be slaughtered." the com-munli com-munli .11 urn onl Inues Mr La Bane asks that the Red! Tross society be informed of the plight nf the christians In Urumlah. He hat asked the board of foreign missions to furnish the mission with 50,000 for its immediate needs on |