Armenians At The Twilight of The Ottoman Era Part 2

409 November 29, 1895 SECOND MARASH HORROR American Theological Seminary Was Plundered and Burned THOUSANDS KILLED, MANY WOUNDED Outbreak Feared at Van, Sassoon Not to be Relied Upon for Aid, and Russian Ambassador Can Only Threaten LONDON, Nov.... More

409 November 29, 1895 SECOND MARASH HORROR American Theological Seminary Was Plundered and Burned THOUSANDS KILLED, MANY WOUNDED Outbreak Feared at Van, Sassoon Not to be Relied Upon for Aid, and Russian Ambassador Can Only Threaten LONDON, Nov. 28. — The correspondent of The United Press in Constantinople telegraphs under date of Nov. 27 that a second terrible massacre has occurred at Marash, and that the houses there have been pillaged without regard to who their occupants might be. It is reported that thousands of persons were killed and many hundreds wounded. The American Theological Seminary was plundered and burned and two of the students at that institution were shot, one being fatally wounded. The hotels and boarding houses also were plundered. The Christians at Marash and in that vicinity, thousands of whom are destitute, have appealed for aid. A dispatch received in Constantinople from Aleppo under Monday s date says an outbreak is apprehen Less