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From: "Fran Warren" <>
Subject: February 19, 1896 Van Buren Argus
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 13:24:06 -0700


Van Buren Argus

Crawford County, Arkansas

February 19, 1896

SAD NEWS FROM ARMENIA

Milwaukee, Wis., Feb. 14.- Ciragos Tomanian is a young Armenian of this city, who has just received sad news from home. The young man has a letter from his uncle, written December 21, 1895, in Ouzounaba, Palau, Province of Diarbekir, Armenia in which he says:

"I write you the horrible happenings which are unequalled in the history of our village. They have burned our church and our home and robbed us of everything. They have killed nearly everyone. Those who are left have changed their religion and have become Mohammedians. This is not all. Your brother’s wife and your little boy are dead. Your wife and mother have thrown themselves into the Euphrates to save themselves from Turkish outrages. Your sister still lives, but I wish she might have been killed, for they have taken her and married her to a Kurd and have changed her to a Mohammedan. Your young brother also is left. He is wandering about almost insane through fear. The massacre started November 28, 1895, and continued for three days. I myself ask the help of God, as I se nothing more to help me. I am wondering about hungry and exposed to the winter. I am poor and in need of daily bread, but I know you cannot help us. Aid would not reach me.

Fran Alverson Warren
e-mail:
479-369-2703
http://www.crawfordcountyarkansas.net/

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