, 1877-08-20

thc throat, anil the blood had poured down over
tne a.. o'y antl - arrested exactly where wa'at
parent 70 the aul'cst- 1pcked Up this awful
memento and brought ttawa7. Exactly oppo.
aIte th!s house Is 4 carAsanseraI, No. - Esktf
Ta;n knprcts'n 1.-THE street Of the Old Bridge OF
!lefe II barn. covered with 4 little straw, VIC
found the bodies of three peoples young. fair.
hasrcd woman, Of Rhout ~ to q. with n full,
fotlnsl fern, and Hight golden hair In great
masses All about her face mud shoulders, lying
IT Is possible there tnay have been more. It
was an awful sight, and the story seemed tcf.
evident. These poor, dcicneelcse people had
sought shelter In tho barn: tile men hnd Mcn
trtt rAvtshctl, had been thrown across their bot-
les. III house close By nc found, lying in
the oren epare in trout ii tho little. vc1antta,
the bo'fy OF roslnR mai! With his Head hnlt
teyerc,l.by a sword cut Ills name VA. Jordan.
friend picked up two bullets In tho house where
found the htool'stnnel chcmIsc, nattcnc! and
with hone edhtrfng. They arc On the table be-
Ss q f ihsn 's does ven os 'e o t e
country, aud in the plain, about quarter Of d
mile out. we came across tho body OF q man
who l,a'i been apparently making hay, or per.
i,aps s,, ha,, been drvng hny-eart The condition
os description. ills head was also battered
TO pieces. After this time failed ~, and, Mprc-
uvcr. q sickenlng hurror had taken hold Of u.,
whl.h T. Will sake long TING to .etFacc. But
,itst US to all kinds OF placcs guaranteeing The
like awful kpccfaclcs. ! may, out Ut curiosity,
prosecute MY rrsenrcl.cs further, hut no further
evidence y 1srtcssary for mic. What matters It
ss whether ths number Il ten, twelve. tifty, or
tre,ne ngonics Of human lifc-dcath, dishouor,
nH1 mortal naisi-hal been awarded; and wt,al
more could ihcy, hare suffered
iaving given IN detail whas OIL. researches
has convinced mt that tl!s massacre was cnld.
hloodcd, undcserved attack !.y tho Iashi. f,o-
zotks on tic dctcnbe1css Bugnrinns. To begin
With, not one single Turkish corpse has been or,
apparently cat, &c produced; The neeount
since colne forward ie, Tint on SATURDAY., the
l4th, ut p. NJ, a large body Of the Daslii-I3a.
zol1ks arrived tn the town and warned tho
Alo;lem population that the Russians werc
He'd, and It was these people. arriving In Crn-
stanttnople on Sunday morning. who brought
tue story TINT the Iltlsaans were driving them
otlt ami tiahsacrcing them. The Dashf-p pnzouks
the railway station On Sunday ticy entered
the t!cfcnsslcss town aEain q. midday aud be-
gun by ptl1aEing the bazaar. Nov, The el,ops
OF tho bazaar, though ln the Turkish quarter,
gre entirely ownct! b. Bugarians, and, after
set tirc to TIC place. Here, confess, thcrc Is
q difficulty. Flow did the mosque, on the ut!,cr
side Of a broad roat, conle to be burned 1t
very probable that thu Bulgnrisns did set tirc tu
u, ana pr1gnabIf to other patls OF the Turkish,
could llavc offered no resistance. Tho scene of
slaughter and robbery wcnt on for twcnty-ftu,r
hours, beginning with thr better classes, and tho
universal testimony Of all the Dnlgarians ID that
The Dashi-Bazonks went backward ind fur
ward to their camp all that day, Sunday, and
oil that Night. The pcup1c living from ttc,n
into thc flclds we're pursued and killed III tic
lad not ti.ne to vis!t am told there aro aI sfx
teen totlfcs lying together; but Of this mn not
tcrtatn. though eau sec ITO reason to dRbeltevc
i. On Monday the regular troops arrived from
kazanlik and other places, rctreatIng before tho
Russians, and the nassatro se:u,a u have
ccaseI. By this time upward of 1 LOCO people
)la1 left by the trains. packed away In every
kind Of tling that could hold them, most OF tlctf
having taesi frotn their homes with nothing but
tho clothes on their baeks.
When arrived on Tucsday evening sow the
last two heavy trains leaving, aud It was sig
nl!irant that ercn thcr the General did not
think them snfe from these brutal irrcgulars, az
strong Gordon Ct infantry regulars was posted
The atAtion. Indeed, 40 perfectly aware was
The General Of thu peril Of these poor neoplu
that he begged the statlon-Enastcr to use his Ut
most endcavors to get them oil away, Which he
s.i ~ ".tt ls'ost n; p1aseSo.nS plomptltune. INC
sa enetei Seuni Iacla, eaa 10 ING stat!otlaa-
cannot a,, ,s a,.s%er for ny troops.n,
Vnr searches lo-uay ehoWcu us tllat not
s!nEie mouse or snoo ans escaped; Il feems IN
Efeolhie now tHcy can nave ransaGkcd tllc placo
arc about 1UDO to 1,2D0 OF these BaRht. ltaxn,lkB
nFcFc, consisting OF ClFrattlars and zc!l,eks.
f1lnufcfa Of these ecoantlfcls desert anu tho
'onntry II oTerrnn VAN inar9udlt'E parties ot
Iwenty and thlstss who sisIt tug bulgarian vi1-
ages. FROM inc etat'on ,ast night We saw tho
la'ncs OF two large villages. The telegraph
sfinss ~ aecosihth OF robbeFy ara nlricr In
tes ss 1''1ls !etMH , anu saeh sns snia9eson
md. y
As tn the numbers Of the pcoplc actunlIy KILL
ri At .leni Sag.lrn In Tho massacre Of to 18th