Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-08-17
THE SCENE OF HORROR.
How BRshi.BazOuks Massacred BuI-
trHrla ans

garl ems.
A letter to the London Times
from a Turkish correspondent says:
Last night on arriving at Yeni
Saghra | found it impossible to get
any but Turkish guides, and in
deed was not permitted to enter the
town, which lies some distance
from the railway, without such an
escort, So this morning my COM
panion and | started off for the
town again, this time taking Bull
garians with us as guides. 1t is
easy to understand that in our
search Of last night in town
which contained nearly six thou
sand inhabitants we had been easily
diverted from a proper inyestiga-
ton by our Turkish guides. To.
day we visited an entirely different
part of the town, and thus stum-
bled, or rather we were led on what
proved the most awful evidence.
The first place we visited was a
house lying in the outskirts of the
town, and once the property Of a
certain Monin, who | believe can
be produced if necessary. We were
informed that his wife had been
defled and then slaughtered by a
blow on the head, and was buried
in manure heap in the farmyard.
We procured men and set to work
on our horrible task, and in short
time came on the corpse of a woman
of apparently thirty-fye to forty
years old. The head was battered
ont of all recognition, and the dress
over the breast was saturated with
blood. The limbs which were lying
exposed seemed fair and white, and
showed no signs of struggle. Her
dress was very good, ornamented
with a good deal of embroidery,
and her long white undergarment
was as fresh as when first put on,
proving that she had not been
many hours in that damp soil. We
next went to place close by where
in a few moments without hesita,
ton our workmen uncovered the
remains Of a man in rough Bulga.
rian clothes, with a terrific sabel
cut across his neck and face, and
an indication of a bullet in the
forehead. This man was about
thirty years old. We then went tc
a house belonging 10 a certain Do
brou-lon Minchon (Which being
interpreted is the "Good Demet
rius" J, where we found BLOOD
sprinkled on the door-posts and Z
most oyerpowering smeli,a if a body
had Just been removed. On the floor
amid a heap of garments, found
a woman's chemise of rough coun
| try cotton, saturated with fresh
blood from the neck to the waist
The history of this garment wa
very plain: 1t is worn wide oper
at the throat, and is tied round thu
waist by the belt which holds "
the petticoats and other garments
The wound was in the throat, and
the blood had poured down oyel
the body, and was arrested exactly
where waist belt would come
The evidence of this was apparen
to tic dullest / picked up thi
awful memento and brought i
away. Exactly opposite this house
is a oarayahserai, No. 80, Eskil
Earn KaprosSin (the street Of the
Old Bridge of Eskir, | believe)
kept by one Taskel-olon-I Ivan
Here in barn, covered with a lit
tie straw, we found the bodies o
three people-a Young, fair-haire(
woman Of about 20 to ~, with {
/ full, round form, and light golden
hair in great masses all about he
face and shoulders, lying across tn,
bodies of apparently two men
though it is possible there ma.
have been more. 1t was an awfll
sight, and the story seemed self
evident. These poor defenseles
people had sought shelter in tn
barn; the men had been murdere,
first, and the woman, having bee
FIRST rayished, had been throw