The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1876-09-23
Turkish Horrors.

TIE deliberate suppression of facts by
which the Mohammeisn journals #
London hope TO diminish the effec. Of
the Turkish method Of making war.
comprI, us 70 horrify our reader. by re-
publishing the following telegram to
the DaGy .Se1ts in exfsaso
PHfLlPP0PoLIs, July 3l.-The in
vestigailou into the atrocities IL pr
csedlng rapidly Mr. Barring will prob
ably report that not fewer than sixty
village we're burnt and twelve thou
sand people killed There Is no proof
vet Of "a siugle Turkish woman or child
having b@en killed Except in three
Villages. rhe Bulgaraas offered no re-
s,stanco. H. oue insssace on.y the Bal
gafians attacked the Turks. viz in a
vill,ge Of mixed inhabltanss Proof
has been obtained Of atrocities corrss-
ponding iii the majority of cases with
tbs details III tn Daily Neses \ school
mistress. beautiful girl WAS arrested
for embroidering flag and brutally
maltreatsd She Was nicknamed the
Queen Of the Bulgsrians She has
been released ou bail but was in prison
six weeks on bread aud water. The
poor girls now Ill and broken hearted
TArAR BAZARDJIR. Aug. lst
| have Just seen the town of Batok
with Mr. Schuyley Mr.. Barring WAS
there yesterday Here is what saw
On approaching the town, on "a hill,
there were some dogs They ran away.
and we found on this spot a number of
skulls scattered about, and one ghastly
heap If skeletons, with clothing.
counted from the saddle = hundred
skulls, picked and licked clean, all of
women and children. We entered the
town On every side were skulls and
skeletons charred 10 ruins. or lying en-
tircIy where they fell in their clothing
There were skeletons OF girls and wo-
men. with long brown hair hanging to
the skulls. We approached the church.
There these remains were most fire.
quent. until the ground was literally
covered with skeletons. skulls and pet
rified bodies in clothing Between the
church aud school there were heaps
The stencil was fearful We entered
the churchyard. The sight was more
dreadful. The whole churchyard for
three feet deep was fostering with dead
bodies. partly covered hands. legs,
arms and heads projecting in CHASTITY
confusion. saw many little hands,
heads aud feet of children of three
years of age. and girls. with heads
covered with beautiful hair The
churcn was still worse. The floor was
covered with rotting bodies. quite un-
covered. | never imagined anything
so fearful. There were three thousand
bodies in the churchyari and church.
We were Obliged TO hold tobacco To our
two hundred women and children bad
been burnt alive. All over the town
there was the same scenes. In some
places heaps of bodies buried IN shall
low holes had been uncovered by the
dogs. The banks of the little stream
we're covered with bodies. Many bod
les had been carried 10 Tatar Bazardjsk,
u distance Of thirty miles. The town
had 5000 inhabitants. There now re-
main 200. Many who escaped had
returned recently. weeping and moan
ing over their ruined homes. Their
snrrowful wailing could have been heard
half u mile off Some were digging out
the skeletons of loved ones A woman
WAS sitting moaning over three small
>kulls with hairs clinging 10 them.
which she had in her lap,
The man who did all this, Achmed
Ara, has been promoted. and is still
governor of the district The newspa-
per accounts were not exaggerated.
They could not be- No crime invented
by Turkish feroci,y WAS left uncommit-
ted. Sevel Thousand bodies have been
lying here since May 18th, ro.,,ng in
the san. preyed upon 10y dogs; and SIR
Henry Elliot has never heard that the
authorities demand war contribution
from the remaining inhabitants OF one
hundred thousand pia>tres. The town
Formerly Iald a million. The harvest
is ro,ting IN the fields The owners are
in the churchvard. The survivors cat
tie have been taken by the Turks, who
refuse to restore II 1t is impossible Ia
get in the harvest IL ia not true that
The Turk. are sending help The in
habitants everywhere complain 10 Mr..
SCHUYLER that their cattle are not re-
stored. and that help Is not given The
statement that the Bulgsrians commit
tod atrocities is utterly unfounded and
shamefnlly f.lse Mr.. Schuyler thinks
that less than two hundred Turks were
killed. nearly all in open combat. There
Is no proof vet that single Turkish
woman ar child was killed or violated.
The reports If Mr. Schuyler and MIR.
R.rins will corroharatc this telegram.
There il urgent need of relief for he
starving and helpless families.
This telegram WAS forwarded 10 the
D8ig Nesss by us special correspondent.
for whose good faith many members Of
the House Of Commons instantly
vouch,d. who Is experienced in DANCE
rous Eastern travel. and who has the
highest character in the profession for
teinperance aud accuracy. He Is travel.
. ing with Mr.. Schuyler. the American
( C.>nsul. General. and Mr.. Schuyler eSi-
/ IDENTIFY assents 10 the accuracy OF the
/ telegram. which will - followed imme-
aistely hy his own report.