The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-09-26
CIVILIZATION IN THE 18TH CENTURY

When one reads the appalling horrors
of Turkish warfare, h warfare only pos
siblc under the moral support OF Eng
land, it is not surprising that Gladstone
should condemn in the presence Of
5000 people, the course Of Great Brit
ain and the terribly brutal atrocities Of
Turkey The correspondent Of the Lon
don Daily News, writing from Tartar
Bolordji<, thus describes in vivid IAN
gungc the great crime Of the Turk
As we approached, our attention was
directed to some dogs on slope over
looking the town, We turned aside
from the road, and passing over 'hc de-
brig Of two or three walls, and through
several gardens, urged our horses up the
ascent toward the dogs They hurkcd
Mt ~ in an angry manner, and then ran
off into the adjoining fields. | observed
nothing peculiar rs we mounted, until
my horse stumbled, When looking
down perceived that ne had stepped
on II human skull partly hid among the
grass. 1t was quite dry and hard, and
might to all appearance have been there
for two or three ycnrs so well had the
dogs done their work, few steps fur
thcr there was another, and beside it
part Of skeleton, likewise white and
dry, AS we approached, bones, sItclc.
tona and skulls become more frequent
but here they had not been picked SO
clean, for there were fragments Of half
dry, halIputid flesh still clinging to
them, At last we come to kind of
little plateau on shelf ON the hillside
where the ground was nearly level, with
the exception of n little mdcnlalion
where the head of hollow broke
through We rode towards this with
the intention Of crossing it, but all sud
denly drew rain with an exclamation of
horror for right before us ,,nosl he.
meath our horses Eva. a sirht that
mate u. s}l"dcr 1t was - heap Of
,sNtHtit' mtcrminglcd with bones from all
PARTS Ol the human body skeletons
lcnrIy entirely rottcn. clothing human
lair and putrid flesh lying there IN one
oul heap, around which the grass was
Towing luXuriantly. II emitted Il sick
ming odor like that Of dead horse,
md it was here that the dogs had been
,crking II hasty rcpast when our I'M
timely approach interrupted them
In the midst of this heap ! could dis
inguish one slight skeleton form still
enclosed in II chcmisc the skull wrap
oedaround with Il colorcd handkerchief
md the hony ankles cucnscd in the en-
iootless stockings worn 10y
the Bulgarian girls We looked about
us. The ground was strcWcd with
bones in every direction, where the
dogs had carried them off to gnaw them
ut their leisure At the distance of one
yards beneath us lay the town,
As seen from our standpoint it remind
I'D one somewhat Of the ruins of lIcrcu.
Ianmm or Pompci There was not u
roof left nor Il whole wall stnndmg-all
was mass of ruins, from which arose
MS we listened low plnintiyc wall, like
the "kccning' of the Irish over their
dead, that filled the little valley and
gave it voice, We had the explanation
of this curious sound when we after
wards descended into the village We
looked again at the heap of skulls and
skeletons before u.s. and we observed
that they were all small, and that the
articles of clothing interminglcd with
them and lying about were all parts of
Nomop's apparel These then, were
all women and girls, From my saddle
counted about hundred skulls not
those that were hidden be,
meath the others in the CHASTITY heap
nor those that were scattered far and
wide through the fields. The skulls
were nearly all separated from the rest
IF the bones, the skeletons were nearly
Ill hcadlcss. These women had all
been bchcaded