The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-08-04
THE EASTERN WAR.
Graphic Account of the Battle at
PIeyna.
The Advance Over the Balkans
Compromised.
Complete Rout Of the Russians.
Graphic Account of the Russian De.
IeAI menr PIeNnA.

conveys Il vivid idea OF the extent OF the
Russian disaster. The correspondent WAS
with Prince Schsckeskoy's command
All hope OF success anywhere Wa
dead, nor did chance oier 10 make the
best o. the de eat. Prince SChsckOsk :
had not = man let TO cover MS retreat
The Turks struck without stint-they
mad the upper-hsnd TOR once and were
determined to show lnat they knew now
t. make the most q. Il. They advanced IN
: sSsrms through the dusk on their original
first position and captured the Russian
cannon before tle a..,"r'es could -
withdrawn. The IurNI-u ,He,,, began
urce more to whistle over The ridge
above RadIshIos and tsil into the vlllsge
behind. now crammed with wounded.
Streams of wounded were vending their
painful WAY over the ridge. The badly
wounded mostly lay where they tell.
Later, in the darkness, q Oaleiul sort oi
krau keutraeger swaTmed over the battle
field, IN tue shape OF. Bashi Bazouks, who
pared not. Lingering there on Inc ridge
mn the moon roe, ne stsh could near
frum below on the -Lil. night AIT
cries of pain and tn" ye.s of the blood
thirsty tsnaucai triumph. Ii WAS indeed
the hour 10 wiring me sterneSt neart.
We stayed there 10 learn II It might be
that tine troops were coming out 0I the
valley Of the shadow oi death below or
were there indeed ANY ~ sil 10 come.
To" Turks mad our range before dark
and we could watch tine fash of dsme
over against US and then listen 10 the
scream Oi the hell ~ II tore BY Us. The
sound OF the rifle bullets WAS lncessant
and the escort and retrestlng wounded
werc struck The detachment st
length began to come Struggling
up, but t viii give M Idea OF the dis
organization To say that when company
was told of TO cover somewhat the
wounded in Rad-hoys it had to be made
up OF men OF several regiments. About
9 % clock the stati quilted the ridge, cav
Iug il uttered with grooming men, and
moving gently lest We should tread on
the PROSTATE wounded We lost our
WAY. As We pad losL our money We
could find no rest for the soles OF our
ieet bv reason OF the alarms of the
=, ;,
the scattered and retiring Russians. AT
,ength At one in the morning, having
been IN the saddle since sl& o'clock on
the previous morning, we turned INT" n
stubble field, sni making beds OF the
rcaped grain, correspondent and COssack
alike, rested under the stars, but we
we're not even then allow. al 10 rc-t be-
q
BszOuks were upon Us, and We had ~
rouse and tramp away. What in the
morning was Il fine army was now
handful OF wcarled Cossacks. General
Krudener sent word IN the morn
ing that he hsd lost s'vere-
lv and that he could make no
mead WAY and mad resolved to fall back
on the line of the river Osma. There
nsd been talk, his troops beng fresh, OF
renewing the attack to-day with hts co.
operation but 1t is plain statement OF
facts that We have no troops 10 attack
with. The most moderate estimate Is
that we have lost two regiments, say
j.OO9 men, out o! our three brIgades. This
takes no account OF General hrudeners g
losses. We, toe, retired on the
Osms river about Bulgsrene, and
70 the best of our weak strength
cover the bridge st SistOva. One cannot,
in this moment of hurried confusion, re-
slize sl ,ur possible results Of this stroke
so -asnly courted. Not n Russian sol.
dier stands between Tirnoya and the vic
torious Turkish army IN Loreca and
Plevna. and only n weak division OF the
corps stands between Siruova and Shum-
IA. look on Prince Schsekoskoy's force
ne n wreck. 1t Is not ten days since
the Both division crossed the Danube
n the pride of superb condition, and now
what Oi it that is LETT Is demorsIIZed and
shattered. 80 oi TINS side OF the
Balkan. there remains but the Ninth
corps already roughly handled, once st
NickOpOlIs ard once NJ PICvna. II one
division of the Eleventh corps and the
Rustchuk army, now IN Rustcbuk, II
marched west against Plevna then the
Turkish army OF Ru.tChuk Is let loose on
the Russian communications ~ TIrnovs.
Oac cHu,ol avoid the conclusion that
the advance over the Balkans Is
seriously compromised. The Russian
strait u SO bad that the scattered de-
tarhments have been called up from out
OF ROumanis. and me RJumAuA division
commanded bv General Mann, which
CROSSED a day or two NJ NIckopols, has
t.,l called mp to the lin" OF the Osms
river. A sid-ds-csmp Of the Grand
Duke Nicho.s- wa. present nj the battle
snI nj once started TOR TruDya with the
udmg-. We are just quitting this
bfyousc and falling back on Bulgsrene
with all speed, leaving the Bulgarian vii.
lages TO the tender mercIes of the Turks.
A. close learn that On our left Gen.
Skobelotf Wa, very severely handled,
having Iost three hundred men ont ot ms
single nisutry battalion.