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Show 1916 Turkey 29 we came side by side with one of these trains. It was made up of cattle cars, and the faces of little children were looking out from behind the tiny, barred windows of each car. The side doors were wide open, and one could plainly see old men and old women, young mothers with tiny babies, men, women, and children all huddled together- human beings treated worse than cattle are treated. "About eight o'clock that evening we came to a station where stood one of these trains. The Armenians told us that they had been in the station for three days, with no food. They said the Turks forbade their buying food. At the end of each train was a car of Turkish soldiers, ready to drive the poor people on when they reached the desert, or to whatever place they were being taken. Babies Thrown into River "They told us that twenty babies had been thrown into a river as a train crossed; thrown by the mothers themselves, who could not bear to hear their little ones crying for food when there was no food to give them. One woman gave birth to twins in one of those crowded cars, and crossing a river she threw both her babies and then herself into the water. Those who could not pay to ride in these cattle cars were forced to walk. All along the road, as our train passed, we saw them walking slowly and sadly along, driven from their homes like sheep to the slaughter. "A German officer was on the train with us, and I asked him if Germany had anything to do with this exile, for I thought it was the most brutal thing that had ever happened. He said, 'You can't object to exiling a race; it's only the way the Turks are doing it which is bad.' He said he had just come from the interior himself and had seen the most terrible sights he ever saw in his life. ' Hundreds of people were walking over the mountains, driven by soldiers. Many were dead and dying by the roadside. Old women and little children too feeble to walk EUPHRATES COLLEGE AND EASTERN TURKEY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, HARPOOT The college has a men's and a women's department. The theological department had students from Van and Bitlis as well as from Harpoot. The mission hospital does not appear in this cut |
