The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-09-14

Away 20 the nOrthwsrd Ct the Pl=yLa
road the Russian force now makes its
appearance with battery ct artillery
20 c1t Of the Turkish retreat toward
Pieyne. Another attacking column Is
now seen advancing up the river Osma
from our extreme right. They are
scattered IL open order and steal aiCBS
unobserved by the Turks 70 reiLiorce
the party under the northern eud of
the bluff All this ;ime the Turks kept
up an incessant rife fire. but the guns
on hills at the back OF the r-doubJ
only fire occasionally, o. our ROO s
cannot be seen from that position.
The Russian artilIey thundered away
very rapidly and TWO batJaliu',S are
now advanced down the road nearly
to the edge OF the city. Til Rg>,ians
gathered under the blaff nov make a
rush forward, and secure possession Of
some Turkish trenches in front o. the
eastern face of the redouot, wijlin 100
yards Ct the ditch. II is n0w o clock
p. IN, and the decisive moin"ut ap-
proaches The men along tie Lovatz
front of the work open fire aud draw
the bulk of the Turkish fire in their di-
rection, when suddenly about fifty
Russians make a rush upon the east
ern fall of the redoubt and approach
within fifty yards of the ditch. They
were compelled TO return by the tre-
mendous Turkish fire after twenty
minutes of desultory fire The real at
tack is made up the slope facing the
eastern side of the redoubt The Rus
slams rush up i'll opeu order, keeping
steady stream of reinfOrcements fol
lowing the advance. a perfect deluge
of shells is poured upon the redoubt
from our batteries as the men move up
the slope, while the Turkish infantry
fire is ucieasing, and if it were we'll di-
rected every Russian would have been
shot down. AS it is, many fell. Our
artillery ceases firing as our men leap
into the bitches and Chamber cd the
parapet, while another column rushes
along the LovatZ face of the redoubt
to clear the advance trenches. The
Turks in the trenches fly to the west
ward, firing as they go, and eight fall
in under the Russian fire in the re-
dOLbt. The garrison rush to the gorge
in the western face of the redoubt.
There is traverse converting this gorge
and the Turks are jammed betweeI. the
traverse and the western parapet. In
a few seconds firing ceases, the day is
won, and the Turks are in full retreat
to the westward, where no force had
been sent to cut off their flight.
Immediately after the redoubt was
taken the correspondent entered it,
The roads adjacent to the plain were
thickly dotted with dead and wound-
ed. Up the slope, where the Russians
had charged the redoubt, | was sur
prised to find Sc few dead, the Turkish
fire having principally gone too high.
Inside of the redoubt were the corpses
of Turks and Russians thickly strew-
ing the ground, but at the western end,
where the Turks had been jammed in
in their efforts to escape, q space of
fifty feet by twenty was covered with
Turkish dead and wounded to the
depth of five feet. The living and dead
were lying on each other in a dense
mass, steaming with heat and blood.
Around this Moslem pile was a fringe
of dead, Russia; 5, showing that there
had been a fearful struggle on this
fatal space. The Russian soldiers
were standing upon this mass of hu
manity. | watched them working man
fully TO separate the living from the
dead. In half an hour they had made
scarcely any impression upon that fear
full pile. The road was strewn with
Turks, with here and there Russian.
Some Turks had been shot first and
then repeatedly bayoneted. The cor
respondent estimates the Russian less
at l, 000. The masses were not expos
ed as at Plevna Skill was substitut
ed for brute force. General Razmin
daieff, who commanded the assault on
the redoubt, was wounded in the leg.