Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-09-01
THE HORRORS OF BULGARIA.
Que Of the Most Terrible Chapters y
Put on Record The most Terrible
Atrocities OF American Savages
Surpassed ny the lJeliish
Diah0lism OF Russian
and Tnrk.
aud Turk.

Sttu SOfA. |
Capt. Gambler, AN officer in the British
army, now on leave of absence, is one Of the
war correspondents Of the London Times.
His reputation "a an officer and a gentleman
is unquestioned he has participated in
several active campaigns, and is of practical
experience in the science of war, and his
letters from the front are written withou.
fear or favor. Writing under date of Aug,
=, he says:
YESTERDAY l visited 4 large Bulgarian
village of upward of three hundred houses
that had been sacked, burned and the peo-
pie massacred BY the Bashi- Bazouks on the
SOth Of July. The village is called Kara
ward P%hilippopolis. The place is a total
wreck, hardly one stone standing on another.
II is more completely destroyed than any
other l have visited. The people had all
fled, SO it is difficult to say what become of
them, though the account Of the survivors
seems probable enough. This is that a
great many of them had left before the S0th.
and gone to P%hilippopolis, but about six
hundred remained, chiefly women aud chill
dren. They all ran way into the woods
and fields on the approach Of the Bashi-
Eazouks, and many were caught and slaugh-
tered at once, and others are roaming about
until q similar fate overtakes them. OF the
few corpses ! saw, the most checking was 4
women with her head half hacked off, her
clothes all torn way at the waist, and the
body half burned. Dogs and pigs were de-
vouring the bodies, while donkeys and cat
tie strayed through the roads ownerless.
The school had not been burned, and had
evidently been the scene of a terrible fray.
Bio I'd on the floors and dooorposts, and all
kinds Of household gear, school books, and
other things in the greatest confusion, told
the same dreadful tale. The spelling-books
and childish %copy-books appealed power
fullyto every human instinct within one.
"This affair at kara-Atli, however, sinks
into insignificance before the appalling hor-
ror of the massacre at Geula-M ahalisse. 1t
appears that on the goth a strong force, un-
der Raouf Pasha, made a reconnaissance
from Yeni-Saghta, and spent a nigh. near
the village above-named, which is situated
a little off the line Of rail between Ieni-
Saghra, and Tirnova.. After the force had
LEFT, q large body of Circassians turned to
the village, and in the first place carried of
an immense number Of young girls, whose
fate can only be guessed at. They then re
turned to the village, and found that the re.
mainder of the women and children had
fled for protection to the church. There
they slaughtered them all, and from tina,
church Col. Lennox and Lieut.. Chermside
r. E. military attaches, and Messers. Les
lie and Meyrick. Of the aid to the sick anc
wounded society, brought ont and buried
one hundred and seventy-ive bodies O
m and children. Besides these ther,
were many others killed in different place.
about the village, and thirty-six wounded
had their wounds dressed by the above
named medical officers. These cye-wit
nesses describe the scene in the church a
something indescribably awful. The deat
and the dying were piled in suffocatinl
heaps, little children crawling about look.
ing for their mothers, wounded mother
trying to move those ghastly heaps to fin.
their children, and when found hardly abb,
to recognize them with tn
fearful ~sword-cuts about thei
little heads. Many women had been viola
ted and subjected to fearful barbarities, pre-
gnant women ripped open, while others La.
of at the wrist. A mother lay stone dea,
and her baby was vainly endeavoring to &c
the food for which it was starving, while a
older child was, calling and pushing the dea
woman TO try and make her awake. Eve
while these gentlemen were in the villaa
the numbering was going On at another par
and so threatening we're those ferocious ru
fians that their lives stood in very gre.
danger ! Circassian from behind a heda
took Q deliberate shot at Mr.. Merrick, b,
missed him."
Another officer in the British service
Lieut.. Col. Brackenbury, Of the royal a
tillery, is also engaged a. a special militia,
correspondent Of TIA London: Tines. In
recsntsIeter tothst pspss he writes as e
lows
ave all feel sorry. for IL poor fello,
who are driven TO fight against a warlil
nation from the north, instead Of Guilty
ting 10 e. Bltthe pity becomes mingl'
with a stcarner sense Of justice when, late
we lind murd, red Bulgarian peasants sire,
ing the ground with their throats cut fro
ear to ear, and others with gashes on the
heads and skulls dashed IN. But aga
comes the1recoil tospity when Prince Vic
tenstei in rides up and rays that the Bulg
rians arc numbering the wounded Turk
the slaves acting like all ofher J%enslav
people when they escape from the lash
the maater. This war ia not an affair
eivilisslion but Of horror upon h0frt