People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1896 — TELL OF ANOTHER MASSACRE. [ARTICLE]

TELL OF ANOTHER MASSACRE.

Fifteen Hundred Persons Butchered by the Kurds at Gurun, Turkey. Boston, Mass., Jan. 9.—A letter from a reliable correspondent of the Foreign Missionary society conveys the startling intelligence of the butchery of 1,500 people in Gurun, Turkey. From a total population of 9,000 Armenians at Gurun it is stated on good authority that 1,500 are killed. All Gregorian and Protestant houses were looted and twenty-seven also of the Catholics. Of the houses sacked 1,000 were burned, including the three Protestant chapels. Three priests of the Gregorian church were killed and another saved his life by accepting the Mohammedan faith. Girls and boys were carried off to serve the vile purposes of the murderers. It is said that mothers, to save their children from this fate, threw them into the river. Contributions to relieve the suffering thousands of Armenians in Turkey continue to pour in in this city. Yesterday the $9,000 mark was reached, and organizations are just being got into working order all ovpr New England. It is .expected that SIOO,OOO will be raised.