The Greene County Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 185?-1867, 1867-01-16

The convent having been cut off from
communication with the mountains, no
news could be sent To Coroneos, who
was absent on an expedition, aud there
was no hope Of relief from such over
wheming numbers if he had come
Three days the 200 heroes fought the
battle OF despair, firing from window
md loop.hole so energetically and oo.
stinately that the Turks speak of it as
like an European battle, the like of
which never was seen in Crete. The
third day a breach was effected at the
great portal ana an assault made, the
Armaouts and Cretan Mussulmans in
advance The gate opens with large
court, around which are arranged the
cells and rooms of the monaslic estab>
lishment and to these the Christians
withdrew when the troops had effected
an entrance, and kept up the fire from
the doors and windows on the enemy,
who was pushed in In increasing masses
AT this time, some participants say that
small mine or magazine exploded,
killing about $50 of the troops. who re-
coiled and lett the place in panic, but
were ordered in again, and the fight in
the court was kept up six hours, they
say from the time the breach was enters
ed. The ground of the court was COW
cred with the Turkish dead and wourd-
ed, but Tho Christians. too. wasted away,
aud finally seeing all to be lost and loI>
ger resistance impossible, some of the
combatants embraced in farewell, and
stabbed each other; the Ueguminos,
Gabriel, fighting to tie last moment,
blew out his own brains when he found
that the Turks were about to take him.
The rest retreating to the great town of
the Heguminos, where were most of the
women and children, and under which
was tho powder magazine, determined
to perish together rather than submit to
the brutalitles and outrages Of the Turks,
and fired the magazine, all being des-
troyed, with all the troops III the vicini-.
ty. In distant room were 80 sick and
wounded men and Gl women and child.
rem who escaped the explosion. One
priest Of a neighboring convent, who
had surrendered to the Pasha and re.
ceivcd protection from him, was mur.
dered by the Egyptians, incarnate fenas,
who spare nothing that is Christian.
The survivors; except six who were
shot down in cold blood because they
had European costumes on, were, by
mercy without parallel in the whole war,
made prisoners, andled, with insults and
abuse, to Reiimc, where many of them
arrived half dead, the stronger carrying
the children, OF whom many were in-
fants, left orphans by the disaster: some
only three or four months old
Otter the fighting was all over, the
Cretan Mussulmans with lighted tapers
went among the dead to see if any
Christian still breathed, and all who
showed any signs OF life were dispatch-
ed without mercy,
A few Greeks hell the stone mill of
the Monastery with such obstinacy that
the Turks were obliged to batter 1t down
on them, destroying everytl ing in it.
The losses ofthe troops are enormous,
the city of Retimo is filled with the
wounded, and the hospitals have rcceiy.
ed over 400, OF whom most will die, the
surgeons say, having been injured by |
the explosion, Not less than 5000 and
some say 1000 of the MussuImans have
been killed or badly wounded in the at I
fair, and au unwonted gloom is on the
faces of all their compatriots here-no
exultation of victory can be seen, and
they say that Mustapha Pasha ragged
like a wounded lion when the battle was
ovor-no one dared approach him. Ills
brother-in law Suleyman, his fayorlte,
was mortally wounded and many officers
killed or wounled. Thlrty-six hours
the army was, engaged in bringing IN
the wounded, and it is said that the
ground around the Convent Is strewn
with the Turkish dead
The Cretans take grim satisfaction
in the result. The garrison of Artadl
only suffered what most of them are
willing to suffer when it comes to the
worst. The religious hostility is such
that any other solution than this becomes
and the Christianity of
Europe is so like its Mohammedanism
that there seems little chance of their
falling out over few miserable Cretans
who could not bide the time of England
and France to have their three century
wrongs righted.
A terrible fire broke ont in Vicksburc.
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