Women were outraged and then butchered; a priest taken to the roof of his church and hacked to pieces; young men piled in with wood saturated with kerosene and set on fire; a large number of women and girls collected in church, kept for days, violated by the brutal soldiers, and then murdered. It is said the number was so large that the blood flowed out of the church door. Three soldiers contended over a beautiful girl. They wanted to preserve her, but she too was killed. Every effort is being made and will be made to falsify (excuse the blots—emblematic of the horrible story) the facts and pull the wool over the eyes of European governments. But the bloody tale will finally be known, the most horrible, it seems to me, that the nineteenth century has known. As a confirmation of the report, the other day several hundred soldiers were returning from the seat of war, and at a village near us one was heard to say that he alone with his own hand had killed thirty pregnant women. Some who seem to have some shame for their atrocious deeds say: “What could we do, we were under orders?” [Illustration: NAREG: ANCIENT CHURCH AND MODERN HOVELS. ] No. 9. [Later from the same place as the preceding extract. Evidence of a regular soldier who helped dispose of the dead.] E..., Dec. 17, 1894. The soldiers who went from here talk quite freely about matters at Sassoun. A. heard one talk the other day. He said the work was mostly finished before the E... soldiers got there. There was great spoil—flocks, herds, household goods, etc.—but their chief work was to dispose of the heaps and heaps of the dead. The stench was awful. They were gathered into the still standing houses and burned with the houses. They say that the work of destruction was wrought by the _Hamediéh_, _i.e._, the newly organized Kourdish regiments. Those regiments are one of the chief elements of danger to the country now. No. 10. [From a city some distance from the scene.] B..., Dec. 22, 1894. You may believe most all that the papers say about the mountains west of Moosh. I wrote you giving you a few more authenticated details. I hope that letter reached you. I give the outline here again. In August the Armenians were declared in rebellion. The regular soldiers and _Hamediéhs_ were ordered to the spot. Orders were issued from Constantinople to put down the rebellion. Both regulars and _Hamediéhs_ were used. The massacre began after the middle of August—about the 18th—and continued to about the 10th of September. The safe estimates put the number of victims at about four thousand, not less than three thousand five hundred, and, in all probability, more than four thousand.