The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-08-24
BAZOUK BUTCHERS.
They Burnt Twelve Towns, Killed all
the Men, Ravished, Then Sold
the Women for Slaves, and
Hewed the Babes i'll
Halves.
bulgarian Correspondence of the Paris Figaro.
IIHM rIIE ASSASSINS OPERATED.

bulgarian Correspondence of the Paris Figaro.
HOW THE AssAssINs OPERATED.
This, in effect, was the way the Bashl
bazouks operated They presented
themselves before a Christian village,
and, according to the ''order of authorl-
ty." required complete disarmament.
After this order was obeyed Il massacre
of the men so disarmed was begun. In
| case The villagers refused to hand over
their guns, ETC., their village was i'm
mediately set on fire. Several villagers
who had never been armed, and which,
consequently, had no arms to deliver
fact well known to the murderers-
were treated in just the manner | have
indicated. The people of PeroutcIltza
answered that they would deliver their
arms to sokiers OF the regular army, but
not TO the Bushi- bazouks. Then the
attack commenced by firing the village
at the four corners. The fight lasted
four hours, and the inhabitants, sur
rounded by fire, took refuge in one OF
the two churches The authority" then
sent cannon, but the unfortunate peo-
pie held together, though at this point
they were willing to parley. At length,
completely outnumbered, they consented
church were shot down in cold blood
the instant they showed themselves
they then comprehended that the attack
was made with but one object, namely,
Il general determination, and they re-
solved to stand out to the last. Thus,
in word, there now remains of this
village absolutely nothing of the $50
houses-nothing, nothing. L defy any
one to find any other trace than por-
ton of the church, whose four walls are
riddled with bullets. and n piece OF
another wall few feet in height. The
only object remaining inside the church
was the half Il painting representing st.
Paul. / have sent it to you, and yOu
will be III possession of all that remains
of q township which paid 500, 900 francs
year for duties.
MASSACRE, SLAVERY, DEBAUCHERY.
And as to the population of over 1000
persons, they are now reduced to $50
old people and children, who mourn
among the ruins which cover all that
was dear to them. Not strong man is
left, not woman. All these have been
slain, and all those who escaped the
massacre have been carried away into
slavery to the other side of the Salkaus.
where they will be subjected to the
Pomacs, renegade Christians, still more
ferocious than the Mussulmans them
selves, and who are always on the raid.
The abandoned children who strayed
into the country have been caught and
sold at an average rate of 80 plasGers
eacll-a little less than $3-tIe little
girls. at least those who were pretty,
sent to Constantinople and placed upon
the secret markets for such bargains
which always exist. They will be scat
tered among the harems, where the
ladies always have little girls which they
raise to sell when they become OF age.
These are their little perquisities. You
will understand that the slave dealers
are expected from Mecca, a rumor
now being in circulation that the sale of
women is about to be recommended. 1t
viii be seen that the old Turk is just as
low as he was the mGmapt after the con-
quest; indeed, these people have not
advanced one step morally, and some of
the recent events have destroyed all that
European civilization has been able to
achieve in Atty years upon this essen
TALLY brutal population. One hundred
and twenty one villages bllaned, women
violated, and children hacked to pieces
The Baslibazouks take the latter by an
arm OF leg, give them one terrible cut
with their knives, and then pass on to
the next. Those considered most adroit
il this bloody work cut the little ones in
two across the waist at q hloW A priest
told me that some few days preflpus,
while lie was crossing a ord, one of
these half bodies injured the legs of his
horse. One priest was crucifed. anoth-
er was roasted alive. Further on he
saw women impaled on stakes drawn
from ricks of hay. Ny mind shrinks
FROM the remembrance of these horrors,
and / will conclude in the words of some
Of the eountrymen to me, Whatsoever
you may say TO your readers, you will
always be within the truth