There has been only one fresh massacre of Armenians this
week, at Eguin, in Kharput, sixty miles from Diarbeker, where, according to official Turkish accounts, six hundred people were put to death. Details of the massacres in Con- stantinople arrive, however, daily, and there is in particular a narrative in the Daily News of Thursday which should be studied by every one interested in the subject. It is the account by an Armenian porter who helped, under coercion, to remove the bodies of three hundred Armenians slaughtel ed on Wednesday, August Nth. These wretched men were all arrested by the police, and were shut up in a Serai, whence they were ordered out one by one into a group of officers and soldiers who, as the victim passed, clubbed him on the head and ran bayonets into his sides. The massacre lasted more than three hours, and as the victims died their bodies were thrust into the cellars, whence they were withdrawn at night by the porters and sent off in carts, holding twenty each, to the Armenian cemetery. "While piling the corpses we saw many an eye open and close, or heard an occasional sigh or groan, but it was night, and we were working with a band of sentinels and officers over us, and could do nothing for any unfortunate wretch who was not quite dead."
