Another Armenian Horror.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 256, 4 May 1896, Page 2

Another Armenian Horror.

A correspondent gives the following particulars of a recent horror in Armenia — an attack by the Kurds on a church in Kutterbul : — " The church, a stone building, was filled with f ugitives ; that night the Kurds began to shoot into the high narrow windows by which it was lighted. Seeing small effect from their efforts to dislodge the people and get ab the booty, about midnight the Kurds took up part of the vaulted stone roof, and, first throwing in [ firebrands through the opening there, poured down kerosene on the blaze, at the same time firing into the defenceless crowd of men, women and*children. " A frantic rusu was made for the door but it was locked, and could be opened with the key only from the outside. After much effort it was broken down, and the stifled, scorched, sorrow- stricken crowd poured out from the narrow egress only to meet a deadlier shower of bullets from the surrounding Kurds. Among the crowd was Jourjis Khathershaw, a graduate from our TheologiI cal Seminary in 1868. As he came out he was at once recognised by his beard and intelligent face as one of the clergy, and was seized, thrown down, and clubbedOne of the books which hpd been scattered about by the marauders was thrust L into his mouth, and he was mockingly j called upon to read the Church service. Firebrands were thrown upon him, and restored to partial consciousness by the pain, he began to crawl away; he was again clubbed, drawn back, and burned T to ashes. r " Another priest was killed before his ' wife and children, while a third and a fourth, after the most brutal treatment, ' were also killed."