The New York herald., 1876-09-07

the ono .apteh killed with arms in
their hands. They took altogether during this
time somo twenty prisoners, and these were well
treated and cared for until the Turkish army came on
and released them. II shoud be remembered that !
am not giving the story OF one person alone In MAKING
these statements for since my conversation with the
schoolmstress we have been to Panigurishti have
compared her story With the accounts received from
other people, and find It corroborated in every pir
ticuar. To tell the TRUTH II scarcely needed corrobo
ration for the Turks themselves neither here nor at
Phppopolis claim more killed than the number above
stated
RISING OCCURRED 2D
On the 2th Hahz Pacha arrived before the palace with
regiment OF regular troops two or three pieces OF ar
tillery, and great number OF Bashi-Bazouks 1t
would seem that the insurgents only had about 200
men armed with muskets or rifles The rest had only
knives or pstols that before these troubles we're worn
by everybody One hundred and hfy of the best armed
had gone out road toward Iatar Bazadk to dis
pute the way, and 100 the otner road.
Tor 1t seems they did not have spies out to
by which way the army would como. When
Hafz Pacha arrived, he found ony 100 men to oppose
him, and these frightened a. the great superiority OF
tho orce brought against them, away at the first
fire. 1t does not even appear that they fired of their
wounded. The inhabitants, panic STRICKEN had in the
meantime attempted 10 fly, but the town had already
or cut down in The fields | had forgotten 10 state
that at the approach of the Bash-Bazouks the
Inhabitants of eight or nEe neighboring villages fear
STRICKEN had abandoned their homes and taken refuge
here, to the number OF 200 or 5000 and they now
filled the Streets crying and screaming with fright As
all resistance had now ceased or, raihsr. had
really been offered, Hanz Pacha had nothing to do but
march into the town. arrest the leaders OF the insur-
rection and restore order Instead OF this, however,
he brought up his artillery, and without summoning
The place to surrender commenced a bombardment,
RUTHLEssLY THROWING THE BURSTING SHELLS
into these crowds OF shrieking women and children
Until midnight the din of the bombardnept resounded
through the streets HATH Pacha was Offering himself
concert The hoarsa roar OF his cannon, The scream
ing OF shells the ear splitting explosions, mingled with
the feeble wall Of women and children made sweet
music to his ears and he prolonged the
night, lit up by the fires OF burning houses
and the globes Of tame which leapt from the mouths
OF the cannon. Ii was safe and harmless kind of
amusement There stern eyed men there 10
give nim back ball for ball and shell for shell, but
only women and children who answered with shrieks
aud groans; and he continued the joyous concert
until midnight Then the loud mouthed dogs OF war
ceased their clamor; they had done their work; |!
now the turn Of the sabre.
During the night and the next morning the troops
and the Bash Bazouks entered the place. and then be-
gan
SCENE OF rrLLAGE VIOLENCE AND MASSACRE
only equalled by that Of Batak Neither age sex
was spared The town was pillaged then fired; about
onetourth Of the houses were burned people were cut
steps, slaughtered on their own hearthstones.
old men and women begging for mercy
terror, pershed alike beneath the swift and certain
sabre. 1t is thought that 1000 people were killed in
OF the town. and the from the noghborng villages
who had taken refuge here But we were not greeted
here with the scenes OF horror that awaited US at Baak.
Hafz Pacha, unlike Achmet Agha had sense enough 10
have the bodies buried within the following three
days. and thus to cover up his tracks.
1t has been agaL and again that these acts
were perpetrated by the Bash Bazouxs only and not
by the regular troops and great deal is made OF the
statement as showing the massacres were committed
without the consent OF the authorities IL the state
ment were worth anything tho converse ought 10 be
true--that II the massacres were committed by the
regular troops then the authorities are response
BILE. Now, as it happens wherever there were any
regular troops to commit massacres they rivaed the
Bas BazOuks in atrocity. Here, as Mr. Schuyler
will show IN his report,
REGULAR AND IRREGULAR TROOPS WE'RE EQUALLY
pitiless and ferocious, aud Iafz Pacha is no less
guilty than Achmet Agha. The reason Is simple.
They all Turks alike and there ia nothing TO choose
These massacres were committed by the order of
the authorities, and that is why the men who com
mtted them have been rewarded with decorations and
promotiona
When we were in Panagurishu shown in
the ruins Of the church. before where had stood the
altar a black spot specked with calcned bones,
which lay bouquet of flowers This was the remains
OF priest Theodor Peon, eghty-fve years of age,
hopes of obtaining money, muiiated and NAL
treated in ways which only the fou' imagins.
burnt here before the altar In another place
shown a black spot where an old blind man,
Dondje Stregleyo beaten half to death, and then
thrown senseless n heap of wood and burnt alive.
There was AN old man here, Zwatko 30, adjieh by
name, public beneiactor, liberal contributor to
the school fund. who in winter supported hall the
widows and orphans OF the place, who was re-
nowned for his charities to Christian and Turk
alike. Ho likewise zsd tortured and maltreated.
His put out, and after undergoing the most
fearful torments, he was thrown on a heap OF wood
fainting or dead tho people do know which, and
burned They seized the priest Nestor and of his
fingers one by one TO cxtort money and as the poor
man had none TO give them they continued by
HANDS, AND FINALLY HIS HEAD
We we're shown In the yard OF neat little cottage,
embowered in trees. grave, beside which woman
young man Of eighteen, who had just returned home
from school when the troubles began after absence
OF two years and who had taken partin the outbreak
They had seized him. and in mere sportcut OIL his hands
by one in the presence OF his mother then killed
HIM. WHAT make these acts more terrible was that
many OF them were committed in the presence oil the
weeping relat ves-witc mother, brothers. sisters OF
victims. And they were repeated by the hundred II
would take volume tell all the stories that were
lated to us. But 1t was not only old and young men
who suffered; women, young girls, children Infants
were ruthlessIy slaughtered These Turks have no
pity, no compassion, no bowels. They have
not even the generosity, the pity of wild
beasts. Even the tiger will not shay the young OF
it's specics But these Turks, these strong,
bearded men, picked infants up out OF their cradles
with their bayonets, tossed them in the air caught
ing mothers. They carried little babes about the
streets the points of their bayoncts, with their
Of their guns and the blood streaming down over their
hands They cut of the heads OF children, and CON-
PEELED other children TO carry the still bleeding heads
I would have the reader remember that relating
facts that have been coldy and concisey noted down
in my presence by Mr. Schuyler facts that will appear
IN his report facts that told him by people who
went and moaned and wrung their hands, and fairly
their hair at the care remembrance Of the scenes
they were relating.
Hundreds Of women came TO US recounting what they
had seen and what they had suffered.
NOT A WON An IN PLAcE sEKns
outrage They all confess It openly. In other places
where these things occurred the women have shown
hesitation to speak In some cases they denied they
had been outraged, and VIC afterward learned they
confessed to others that thoy had been. At Avrat-
Alan delegation of ladies called upon Mr.. Schuyler
to make their complaints and be somewhat as
tonished to and they had very little to say. Upon
going away, however, they left him letter signed
by them all, saying that scarcely woman IN the
nj had
themselves to tell MIN but thinking that as
he was investigating here official capacity he ought
to know they had decided to write to him. Here
however, they did not hesitate to speak out Out
RACES committed publicly, generally, that