The American Red Cross Bulletin (Vol. IV, No. 4, October 1909)American National Red Cross
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The American Red Cross Bulletin (Vol. IV, No. 4, October 1909)
American National Red Cross
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Providence that brought these two to Adana at such a time.
[Illustration: RUINS IN ADANA.]
Thursday afternoon it was reported at the Consulate that nine wounded
women and children from the ruined houses of the adjoining suburb had
been brought into the Turkish guard house near the Consulate. A message
to the guard house to ask if medical help could be given was answered
by the curt reply that no assistance was needed as all would be dead
by morning. There was firing on the street and murder abroad, but Mrs.
Doughty-Wylie, taking with her a Greek woman and Dr. Danielides, who had
taken refuge at the Consulate, went over to the guard house. The nine
wounded were on the floor of a small room, lying in pools of blood. In
an adjoining room were two wounded soldiers, one with a broken leg and
one with a flesh wound. After a trip back to the Consulate for dressings,
Mrs. Doughty-Wylie and the doctor dressed the wounds, caring first for
the wounded soldiers. The women and children were then brought over and
placed in a woodshed adjoining the Consulate, while the soldiers were
left to the care of the proper military authorities. This formed the
nucleus of the hospital relief work. There might have been ten instead of
nine in this nucleus but for the fact that even while Mrs. Doughty-Wylie
was at work in the guard house a wounded Armenian seeking its protection
was stabbed to death by the bayonets of the soldiers in full view of the
English Consulate. Of the nine, two died of peritonitis in the course of
a few days; two were discharged cured within two weeks, and others were
convalescing in the hospital five weeks later.
A tenth was added to the list of wounded in the Consulate that afternoon
by the wounding of Major Doughty-Wylie in the right forearm, who, in the
role of peacemaker, was frequently between the fire of the contending
parties.
_End of First Massacre._
Friday morning, about nine o’clock, the bugles sounded the call to cease
firing, and the first massacre ceased. Some four or five wounded men were
brought into the British Consulate, and the little hospital overflowed
into an adjoining Armenian house, where the patients lay in a little dark
room with a mud floor.
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