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INFANTS PLACED IN HOT OVENS AND BURNED ALIVE BY TURKS - THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER, FEBRUARY 20, 1916
February 24, 2015
Infants Placed In Hot Ovens And Burned Alive By Turks, Says American
Missionary Rev. E. A. Yarrow
Special Dispatch To The Exquirer.
New York, February 19.- "One of the most diabolical massacres that
ever took place in history is going on in Turkey. It seems to be almost
incredible that the human mind could conceive or the heart perpetrate
such awful slaughter as that to which the Turks have resorted."
This was the statement to-day of the Rev. E. A. Yarrow, a
Congregational missionary recently returned from Van, Armenia. He
recounted his escape and experiences to 200 members of the alumni of
Mount Hermon School, the institution founded by the late D. L. Moody,
at Broadway Tabernacle.
"It is not enough for the Turks to kill and maim, but the manner in
which they put to death helpless noncombatants-women and children-is
past understanding." said the missionary. "Scarcely any victims
of their ruthless pillaging are put to death except after the most
heartless torture.
"As an instance of their fiendish methods, they left scores of babies
to be burned alive in ovens under which raging fires had been built.
The infants had been wrenched from the arms of their helpless mothers,
who were dragged away with the fleeing Turks at the approach of the
Russian army.
"One by one they sent out from a hospital where their own wounded are
being treated Armenian nurses and shot them to death in cold blood. A
single wounded Russian prisoner too ill to be transported, was killed
as he lay in his coat rather than have him rescued by his comrades.
"In attempting to minister to the wounded and dying, Americans of our
mission contracted typhus. On every side there was sickness and death."
Dr. Yarrow almost dead from typhus, with other members of the mission
staff, managed to get away just as the barracks burst into flame
from an axploding shell. He survived the forty-mile trip in an army
ambulance and finally arrived at Tiflis, with thousands of Armenians
who sought refuge there.
http://www.horizonweekly.ca/news/details/62226
February 24, 2015
Infants Placed In Hot Ovens And Burned Alive By Turks, Says American
Missionary Rev. E. A. Yarrow
Special Dispatch To The Exquirer.
New York, February 19.- "One of the most diabolical massacres that
ever took place in history is going on in Turkey. It seems to be almost
incredible that the human mind could conceive or the heart perpetrate
such awful slaughter as that to which the Turks have resorted."
This was the statement to-day of the Rev. E. A. Yarrow, a
Congregational missionary recently returned from Van, Armenia. He
recounted his escape and experiences to 200 members of the alumni of
Mount Hermon School, the institution founded by the late D. L. Moody,
at Broadway Tabernacle.
"It is not enough for the Turks to kill and maim, but the manner in
which they put to death helpless noncombatants-women and children-is
past understanding." said the missionary. "Scarcely any victims
of their ruthless pillaging are put to death except after the most
heartless torture.
"As an instance of their fiendish methods, they left scores of babies
to be burned alive in ovens under which raging fires had been built.
The infants had been wrenched from the arms of their helpless mothers,
who were dragged away with the fleeing Turks at the approach of the
Russian army.
"One by one they sent out from a hospital where their own wounded are
being treated Armenian nurses and shot them to death in cold blood. A
single wounded Russian prisoner too ill to be transported, was killed
as he lay in his coat rather than have him rescued by his comrades.
"In attempting to minister to the wounded and dying, Americans of our
mission contracted typhus. On every side there was sickness and death."
Dr. Yarrow almost dead from typhus, with other members of the mission
staff, managed to get away just as the barracks burst into flame
from an axploding shell. He survived the forty-mile trip in an army
ambulance and finally arrived at Tiflis, with thousands of Armenians
who sought refuge there.
http://www.horizonweekly.ca/news/details/62226