Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-08-17
THE EASTERN WAR.
Massacre and Devastation.

AfoNObNs aug 10
A Karabunar correspondent says APP
palling accounts continue to come in Of
the misery of the fugitives from the dis
trict devastated by Bashi- -Bazouks and
Bulgarians. Thousands of women and
children are homeless and perishing for
want of shelter, medical attendance and
food. The correspondent speaks favora-
bly, of the Turkish regulars, but severely
blames the Government for employing or
not controlling the irregulars, who com
NIT the worst excesses. Even fugitive
women and children who come for pro
lection to the Turks have to be guarded
by the regular troops lest they should be
further injured by these savages. The
Bulgarians are behaving much in the
same way as the Bashi-Bazouks. 1t will
be impossible for Christians and Moham-
medans to ever live together again in
the disturbed districts. Even Philo Rus
slams severely condemn Russia's conduct
in first instigating the Bulgarians to revolt
and then leaving them to the mercy of
the Turks, whose right to treat them as
rebels is hard to question.
The Turkish Legation complains of the
Russians near Kars firing upon flag of
truce and wounding Osman Effendi.
Twelve unarmed Mussulmans of the vii
lage of Soukoulou, near Erski Saghra,
surrendered to the Russians, and seven
of them were massacred by Bulgarians
and three by Cossacks. At Batak, a viii
lage strictly Mohammedan, district of
Sistova, 100 houses were burned, and 100
men and 800 women perished. 1t is be-
lieved that seven inhabitants survived.
At Balovan, Mussulman village, district
of Tirnova, $50 houses were burned.
Several hundred men and 1900 women
persisted. One person, it is believed,
escaped. AT Caba Bonnas, 100 houses
were burned, and 200 men and 300 women
perished. Two persons escaped. Al
Kestambal $50 houses were burned; BOG
men and 600 women perished. Al
Chems, a mixed village, go Mussul.
man houses were destroyed. One hun
dred and twenty men and 300 women
persisted. One person only es.
capped. At Tundja, mixed village,
100 houses were destroyed and $50 men
and 400 women persisted. There are
three survivors. The villages aban-
doned upon the approach OF the Russians
were given to the flames and nearly 5,0OC
houses were destroyed. The legation con
cludes, from information received, thai
the Russians have adopted an uniform
system to try to seize defenseless villages
and, after destroying them with cannon
shot, to massacre the unarmed inhabit
ants and carry off the women. The Rus
slams threaten Christian villages with
the same fate if they do not surrender
or if their inhabitants refuse to be en-
rolled.
A Bucharest correspondent telegraphs
l have written the following as received
it, and from the terrible accounts which
fugitives continually bring over the Balk
kans l fear it must be only too true
July 81, the day of the Russian evacua
tion of Eski Saghra, the Turks ordered
that all Christians, men, women ant
children, should be shot as they left thei
houses. Those who remained within
were burnt alive. An order was given Il
burn down and destroy every particle o
Christian property. Many leading Turk
ish merchants took part in the affair
One dispatched large number of Bashi
Bazouks all over the Tszcherpan district
This district is one of the riches
in that part of Turkey. 1t contain
a very large proportion of Chris
tians, over thirty churches, ant
400 schools and colleges, all of whicl
have been burned. The destruction ex
tended to the villages of Boghdam
Mahalesi, Rani, Mahlesi and many others
in all about sixty, containing from Isl
to 200 families each. Scarcely fifty per
sons escaped alive. The Bulgarian fu
gitives at Gaprovo and Selvia estimat
that from 10000 to $4,000 Christian
have been massacred in the Eski Saghr
and Tchirp districts alone. Soldiers wer
posted along the road from Eski Saghr
to Kazanlik, with orders to shoot every
body passing.