The New York herald., 1876-09-04


a certain number of inhdcls he rs sure OF Paradise
no matter what his SINS may be- Mahomet pro-
baby intended that only armed men should count, but
tue ordinary Mussulman taxes the pfecept III i's
broader accepanon counts women and children as
well The advantage OF killing children IS that It can
be done without danger and that child counts for as
much as an armed man. Here IN Batak the bash-
bazouks, IN order to swell the count ripped open preg-
nant women and killed the unborn infants. AS wet ap
preached The midde of the town bones skeletons and
skulls became more numerous. There was not house
beneath the runs oil which did perceive human
remains and the street beside strewn with them
Before many of the doorways women were
walking up and down wallinp their funeral chant
one Of them caught me by the arm and led me INSIDE
OF the walls and there, IN one corner, half covered
with stones and mortar, we're the remains OF another
among tue stones and dust. And the mother fairly
shreked with agony and beat her head mady against
at heart, leaving her alone with her skel ton. few
steps further on sat woman ON q doorstep rocking
herself to and iro, and uilerlng moaos hear,rendIns
was buried IN her hands, while her nngsrs were
unconsciously twisting and tearing her HAIR as
she gazed INTO her lap, where lay three iuue
skulls, with the hair still clIngng 20 them HON did
The mother como 10 be saved while the children
from the village when the massacre occurred Per-
haps she had escaped with babe her arms, leaving
these to be saved ~ the father; or perhaps, most
fearful most pitiial thing OF all she had been terror
stricken that she had abandoned the three poor little
ones TO their fate and saved her lie by flight. Ii
this be no wonder She Is tearing her hair in that
terribly unconscious way AS she gazes at the three
little heacs lying In her lap.
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And now we begin TO approach the church and the
schOolhouse The ground Is covered here with
skeletons, 70 which arc cl'nglns articles OF
with iaint snkening odor, that grows stronger AS
We advance It's b.gnnlng 10 be horrible The school
is sids oi the road, the church tue other.
The schoolhouse TO Judge by the walls that in part
standing, inc, large building. capable o accom-
moo atng zoo or 300 chircn Beneath the stones anu
rubbish that cover the noor 10 the height o several
feet are the bones and ashes OF 200 women and chill
dren burned alive between these tour walls just be-
,sin h. inAth th,u- 10 l,r,ah Shal,n Hnro
were buried 100 bodies two weeks alter the
But the dogs uncovered them in parL The
horr,d cesspoo,' with human remains floating
about or lyiug half exposed IN the mud.
through the village, Is a sawm- The wheel pit be-
nc,tn rs full OF dead bodies noatng in the water The
banks OF were at time literally covered
with corpses OF men ana women, young girls aud
children, that lay there fostering in the sun, and
by dogs. But the plt'fu sky ned down tor
upon them, and ttle elled aud rose
up and the bodies away, and strewed them far
down It's grassy banks, through its gorges and
dark defcs beneath the thick underbrush ana the
shady woods as far Pestcra and evon Iaar BaZard
Jik, iorty miles distant We entered the churchyard,
but tho odor here became SO bad that it
almost impossible TO proceed We take handful of
tobacco AMI hold 1t to our noses while VIC continue
Investigations The church not very large one.
and it was surrounded by low stone wall, enclosing
small churcnyard about fifty yaras WIDE by seventy
rive long. AT rst We perceive nothing cuar,
and the stencil is great that We scarcely look
aUout but We see that the place is heaped up with
stones and rubbish TO the height of five or six feet
above the level OF the street. and upon inspection
discover that what appeared 10 be OF and
rubbish is in reality an immense heap OF human
bodes covered over with thin layer OF stones
The whole OF the little churchyard Is hcaped
four feet, and 1t hero that
the fearful odor comes Some weeks after the
ere orders sent to bury the dead But the stencil
AT that time had become 80 deadly that II was imp0ss
BILE to execute the order, or even remain in tho
ueghborhood OF the village The sent to perform
the work contented themselves with burying lew bod
les throwing little earth over others they lay and
hero tho churchyard they had Tried 10 cover this im
mensc heap OF fostering humanity by throwing
stones aud rubbish over the walls without daring TO
enter. They haa only partially succeeded. The
be projecting from this monster grave, heads,
arms, legs, feet, ana hands, IN horrId coniu-
lying here in this little churebyard alono, and we
could well believe It. 1t was fearful sight-a eight 10
haunt one through life. There were little curly heads
there that iestering mass crushed down by heavy
stones little feet not as Ions your finger, which
the flesh dried hard by the ardent heat before
out IL Tor help babes that had died wondering at
the bright CLEAN of sabres and the red hands the
herce-eyed men who welded them; children who had
died shrinking with fright and terror; young girls
had died weeping and sobblng and begging Tor mercy
mothers VINO disd trying TO shield their ltle
ones with their own weak bodies, all lying tbero
together. fostering one horrd mass. They silent
enough now. There cries no weep
ing, no shrleks Of terror, nor prayers lor mercy.
The harvess are rotng IN the fields and the reapers
church which had been backened by the burning OF
the woodwork, but not destroyed, nor even much
jured. 1t was low building, with low root, sup
ported by heavy irregular arches that as We looked
seemed scarcely high enough Tor tall stand
under. What we saw there was too irehtful for
than hasty glance. An immense number OF bodies
had been partly burnt there, and the charred
and bIackened remains that seemed TO fll
It hall way up 10 me low dark arches and
state OF putreactcn too irghtiul to upon. had
imagined anything SO horrible We all turned
away sick aud liant and staggered of the fearful
pest house glad 10 get into the street again We walked
about the place the things repeated over
and over a hundred times. Skeletons OF men with the
clothing and flesh still hanging and rottng together;
skulls OF women with the hair dragging In the dust
bones OF children ana OF infants everywhere. Here
they show a house where twenty people were
burned alive; there another where dozen girls had
taken refuge and been slaughtered to the last as
their bones amply tesuhed Everywhere horrors upon
horrors
There dogs in the place. as they had nil been
driven away when the inhabitants began to return and
only hung around the outskirts OF the village; but
Two cats, iat aud sleek, that sat compia
Gently upon the wa Is and watched with sleepy eyes
IL may be asked why the people who village
DO not bury these skeletons and these bones IN
stead OF allow ny them to be gnawed by the dogs and
cats Some OF those who have been able to identity
the bones of friends have made weak attempts at
buryiDg tnem But they have no spades 10 dig
graves with, and they are weak and starving.
Besides many OF the survivors women who
have made ruthless Efforts To keep the bodies of
loved ones covered with little earth. We had
ample proof hat wherever bones could be Identified
they were tcndcrly cared for. We many wellkept
graves decorated with flowers. We saw others that
had been uncovered by the ram or the dogs, leaving
OF Tho skeleton exposed that were still decorated
with flowers We even saw skulls lying the ground,
within doorway or garden wall, with bouquet of
flowers ly ing upon them, as though
caring for hcm and was yet loah to bury them away
OF sight saw ono halt buried, with the lace up
ward and It's hollow eyes gazing rcproachlully up the
sunny sky, with bouquet carefully p ced ia It's mouth
but most OF these skeletons and bones have nobody
to look alter them. or the 5000 or O. 200
people who made up the population OF the place there
are only 200 or l.50D left, and they have neither
tools TO dig graves with nor strength 10 use spades II
they had them.
TrRkIsu MADNESS AND BLIND FOLLY.
But why have the Turkish authorities not buried
them out OF sight2 The Turkish authorities will
tell you they have buried them, and that there
were very lew to bury OF all the cruel brutal Iero
cous things the Turks did the Of Baiak
Is among the worst or ali the mud, foolish things
they did leaving these bodies 10 lie roting
tor three months unbnried Is proba0ly the maddcst
and foolish. But this village an Isolated.
the way place. difficult OF access and they
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