The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-09-14

nation. A little further on we came
to an object that filled us with pity and
horror. II was
II SKELETON OF A YOUNG GIRL
not more than Is, lying by the road
side, and partly covered with the de-
bris of a fallen wall. 1t was still cloth
ed in q chemise; the ankles were in
closed in footlcss stockings; but the lit
tie feet, from which the shoes had been
taken, were naked, and owing to the
fact that the flesh had dried instead of
decomposing, were nearly perfect.
Th.rc was u large cash in the skull, to
which q mass Of rich brown hair nearly
a yard long still chung, trailing in the
dust. 1t is to be remarked that all the
skeletons Of women found here were
dressed In q chemise only, and this poor
child had evidently been stripped to her
chemise, partly in the search for money
and jewels, partly out of mere brutality,
then outraged, and afterward killed.
We have talked with many vomea who
had passed through all parts o; the or
deal but the last, and the procedure
seems to have been as follows: They
would seize II woman, strip her care.
fully to her chemiso, laying aside ar
ticlcs Of clothing that were valuable,
with any ornaments, and Jewels she
might have about her. Then as many
of them as cared would violate her, and
the last man would kill her or not rs
the humor took him. AT the next house
a man stopped us to show where a blind
little brother had been burnt alive, and
the spot where he had found his cal
cined bones, and the rough, hard-yis-
aged man sat down and sobbcd like n
child. The foolish fellow did not seem
10 understand that the poor blind boy
was better of now, and that he ought
really to have thanked the Turks in
stead of crying about it. On the other
side of the way were the skeletons of
two children lying side by side, partly
covered with stones, and with frightful
saber cuts in their little skulls. The
number of children killed in these
massacres is something enormous. They
were often
spITTED on %BAYoNETs,
and we have several stories from eve.
witnesses who saw little babes carried
about the streets, both here and ut Olluk-
kui, on the point of bayonets. The rea-
son is simple. When Il Mohammedan
has killed q certain number of intidels
he is sure Of Paradise, no matter what
his sins may be. Mohammed probably
intended that only armed men should
count, but the ordinary Mussulman
takes the precept in its broader accept
alton, and counts women and children
as well. The advantage of killing chill
dren is that it can be done without dam
ger, and that u child counts for rs much
as an armed man Here in Batak the
Bashi-Bazouks, in order to swell the
count, ripped open pregnant women,
and
KILLED II UNBORN INFANTS.
As we approached the middle of the
town, bones, skeletons, and skulls be-
came more numerous. There was not
a house beneath the ruins Of which we
did not perceive human remains, and
the street besides was strewn with
them. Before many of the doorways
women were walking up and down
wailing their funeral chant. One of
them caught me by the arm and led me
ipst,ln fhn uyn1ls aud thn.n ~ 4, u,
ncr, half covered with stones and NOR
tar, were the remains of another young
girl, with her long hair flowing wildly
about among the stones and dust. And
the mother fairly shrieked with agony,
and beat her head madly against the
wall. l could only turn round and
walk ont, sick Mt heart, leaving her
alone with her skeleton. A few steps
further on sat a woman on n doorstep,
rocking herself to and fro, and uttering
means heartrending beyond any thing
| could have imagined. Her head was
buried in her hands, while her fingers
were unconsciously twisting and tear
ing her hair as she gazed into her lap
where lay three little skulls with the
hair still clinging to them.
And now we begin to approach the
church and the school-house. The
ground is covered here with skeletons,
to which are clinging articles of cloth
ing and bits Of putrid flesh; the air is
heavy with a faint, sickening odor, that
grows stronger rs we advance. 1t is
beginning to be horrible. The school
Is on one side of the road, the church
IN the other. The school, to judge by
the walls that are in part standing, was
a fine, large building, capable of ac-
commodating 200 or 800 children. Be-
meath the stones and rubbish that cover
the floor, to the height of several feet,
are the bones and ashes of POO women
and children,
BURNED ALIVE
between those four walls. Just beside
the school-house is a broad, shallow
pit. Here were buried a hundred bodies
two weeks after the massacre. But the
dogs uncovered them in part. The
water flowed in, and now it lies there a
horrid cesspool, with human remains
floating about or lying half exposed in
the mud. Near by, on the banks of the
little stream that runs through the viii
lage, is a saw-mill. The wheel-pit be-
meath is full of dead bodies floating in
the water. The banks of
this stream were at one time
literally covered with corpses of men
and women, young girls and children,
that lay there fostering in the sun and
eaten by dogs. But the pitiful sky
rained down a torrent upon them, and
the little stream swelled and rose up
and carried the bodies away, and
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