The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1877-09-19
RUSSIANS ROUTED.
A Combined Attack on PIE
WA Repulsed.
FIGHTING DEpERATE And
BLOODY.
The R0manialS Also RGtGd With
Heavy Loss.
ANOTHER CHAPTER OF oUTRAGEs.

CoNsTANTINoPLE, Sept. l6.-Tht
Grand Vizier informed Minister Lay.
ard that 0sman Pasha defeated the
Russians Saturday, killing AID
wounding 5000 and capturing
several guns.
Fighting before Plevna IS st;ll go
ing Cd.
In connection with the foregoing
q CDnsiautinople special repeats the
reports current there last night that
the whole Russian army had attack
ed the Plevna lines, and were repuls
ed after deperate fighting, losing over
5000 men. They then aband nd
their positions, ~retrea.ing upon SIS
tova and Tiraova.
Meantime the Roumanian corps,
on the northeast of Plevna, were
completely routed with heavy loss,
leaving niGe gus aud a large quan-
tity of arms and ammunition On the
field.
LONDON, Sept. | $50 the Otto,
man cause every moment is now Of
value. No one but Osman Pasha
himself can tell how long be can
hope to stand a siege. As much de-
ponds on the state Of his magazines,
ammunition and supplies "a on the
skill Of his engineers or steadlness Of
his rifemen, bat no besieged army
ever is relieved too soon. Mehemet
Ali and Suleiman Pasha, if they
wauid save to the cause the Islam
stronghold that has stood as stub
bornly as a lion in the path Of the
invader, should strain every nerve to
hasten every Layonet and saber they
can command to the banks of the
Vid.
That Mehamet Ali is beginni "
to move we have nos some slight in
dications He has at least 130, 600
men at his command If with these
be pushes forward boldly, be should
march from the LON 70 the Vid in
ten days, driving before him the So
600 men that the Czarowitch has
stretched as a thin curtain along the
Jantra.
As his left wing sweeps through
Tirnova it would not only dislJdge
$4,000 men that are scattered along
the roads toward the passes Of the
Balkans, bat would cut the commu-
nication of the Eighth Russian Corps,
which, with some subsidiary detacA
ment, holds Shipka Pass
Thus he would open that road TO
Suleiman Pasha, who appears de-
termined, with perverse obsti1scy to
decline to cross the mountains by any
OF the many routes which are undc-
Tended. for his reported movement co
Gabrova is now found to have been
merely 4 reconnaissance.
Snleiman and Mehamet united
would bring into the plains $50. 1000
men. 0sman Pasha has in Plevna
at least $4,000. The whole armies
under the command Of the Gar ia
Bulgaria do not muster now 10000
bayoDets. There IS Q grea: opporiu-
nifty for the Ottoman commanders If
they can bat grasp if, but the impe
rial Guard will be at Plevna il a
fortnight. There is time, but none 70
spare.
New YoRK, September l5-The
Turkish Legation of this city far.
nishes the following: Az Kazanlik,
as the Russians occupied the town,
the Cossaeks and Bulgarian inhabi-
tants entirely dispersed the Mussal.
mans. They were subjected to a
Thousand tortures in their wives.
Those who declared having no
money were put to death.
The Caunaksm Governor of the
town had his eyes torn out and his
teeth pulled OUT, and for three days
was taken through the streets in that
condition. Alter she defeat of the
Russians at Eski Sagbra and kezin-
lik the Balgarials left the city, bit
returned nezt day, and murder and
rape were prominent. independent
ly Of those killed in the houses every
day from twenty TO thirty Mussul-
mans were executed publicly.
In the vicinity Of Kaz1nik, Mussnl-
man villages were devastated, and
destruction by fire followed pillaee.
4ll the Mqssuiman population which
rempined were massacred except the
young girls and the youngest women,
who were taken to the Balkans. la
Eski gagbFs . portion Of the Mussul-
maj population was massacsed. Ga
the other side Of the Balkans the en-
envy systematically burns every viii
,age on his line of march. He even
besire y barF. tie plantations. The
sans system is fouhd 10 &sia.
Mehemet Ali Pasba t~eiegfaphs
that eighteen battalions Of Turks on
Friday repulsed al attack by the
Russian Twelfth Army Corps on SIN
ana. TIE Russian loss was heavy.
Graud Duke Nicholas ieiegrapas
TO 81. petersburg, under GATE F~"realh,
On Friday evening The
Turks ASSAULTED Grivica or GriVilza,
but with the assistanes Of tie eus
sian and Roumanian reserves were
To-day We continue shell
ling the ensm;la fprtiacati ms, and
the town Is burning
Accoring to reports receive up TO
239 wounded officers aud
a,4S2 passed through the hospitals
Since September the nnmEer Filled
is about 5000 total loss about 500
Off GERS and 1880 men Up to the
moFsiag Of September ~ The Hou
msnians had lost about sistv o~Eicers
and 3 600 men killed and wounded.
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