The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-08-24


women perished. Only one person escaped.
Az lundja,a mixed village, one hund.
req houses were destroyed, and two hund.
req and fifty men and four hundred m
perished, There were three survivors.
M villages abandoned upon the ap.
proseh of the Russians were given to the
names, and nearly five thousand houses we're
destroyed.
lhe legation concludes, from informa.
''oh received, that The Russians have adopted
u uniform system to try to seize dcfenseless
villages, and, after destroying them with
eannon'shot, to massacre the unsrned in.
haoitants and carry Of the women for the
purpose Of outraging their persons where
tney are not killed at first. The Russians
threaten Christian villages with the same
late If they do not surrender, or il the in.
habi'ants refuse to be enrolled.
On the day OF the Russian evacuation
Oh E'ki Sashra the Turks ordered that all
the Christians, men, women and children
should be shot as they left their houses.
ihose who remained within were burned
huVe The order was given to burn down
ana destroy every particle of Christian
property, Many leading Turkish merchants
TOOK part in the aaair. One dispatch states
lhat a large number of Bashi.Bazouks are all
over the Tchirpan district. This district is
one oil the richest in that part of Turkey. II
contains a very large proportion of Chris
'ianS, over thirty churches, FIVE hundred
schools and colleges, all of which have been
burned. The destruction extended to the ,
villages OF 5oshda9., MAahoiesi, RAM and I
many others, in all about sixty, containing /
from one hundred and fifty to two hundred
families each. Scarcely fifty persons escaped S
alive. Bulgarian ~fugitives at Cabrona and I
Sell, estimated that from twelve to fifteen r.
Christians have been massacred in "
The tski saghra and Tchirpan districts u
The soldiers were posted along the :,
'oad from Eski Saghra to KasanIik, with :.
'rderS to shoot everybody passing.
A Constantinople correspondent tele. Sc
'raphs by way Of Syria that civil war of /
is being carried on in Eski Is
aghra, All the male Christian native popu. 70
mon has been sentenced to death by the III
urklsh general. This news has been st,
'ougat by woA American missionaries, pro- da
by their Turkish friends. They lost RTE
'erything. Every male Bulgarian is az. be,
ised OF being either a spy or an open ms
iehly. karabunar is crowded with fugi. CT
yes; there is only one well in the place,
I'd there are sixteen thousand troops there. N"
"' " anu iusllNes are perish Go,
e from thirst. A correspondent writing ont
I'M harabunar says that appalling accounts pitt
ntlnue to come in of the misery of the han
gitives from the districts devastated by the
Bashl-Baz9uks and Bulgarians. Thou. bac
Ids of women and children oye bousIoss lead
perishing for want of shsl,sr M.Jio,i had
enhance and food, and help on the largest
'slble scale are most Sorely needed. rhe ~,
ma proposes to distribute the f~ugitives last
ut Constantinople, Adrianople and Phil. shift
'Po"s' a correspondent suggests the Mas
'"tlon oi II Guy OF refuge on an island you
'ohstantinople under the protection the
neutral flag, and a neutral guarantee was
the belligerents, Crons are ~roftina i, Twin
ground, and ne nrovisfor 10 as he
he winter. Tho oor.osnonIa. ~ cheek
-abIv of tbo T,r,.i,L I.1 9Pe"A' court
v bl,r,o. na 7'"i u Se' 20 at
: ntraI,r.N "'o i'r employing dog,
controlling the irregulars, who commit rentIt
worst excuses. Even fugitive wopen She
who come to the Turks for at the
cuon, nave to be guarded by regular bit of
$ lest they should be further injured gr0un
ese savages. The Bulga,ians are be. m.
g much in tbc Same way DC ,ho p..I: der an
1t will be impossible for the Lou.u
lans and Mohammedans to live to. W
again in the disturbed districts. Rad /,
Star and Herald, of Panama, is The
'celved. 1t announces the total loss woman
racine steam navigation ~company's sne III
r Elton, Captain Coathupe, on the ~
g OF the fifteenth of July, at Los na'IL:yy
- ~ues uorth OF NalPa' the sol
+ ourteen bodies had been recovered pots an
rec OF the crew and passengers had afraid c
The shore in safety and twenty were of her
the rock. A British war vessel and mistake
N gunboat were sent to the scene Of it were,
ok as soon as reported. Init wa,e nm ~consciol
render assistance, owing to roucb The
and Jog. The survivors an a. risen 10
.om exposure md wont % s streak o
into a. ioou' while.
only three we,a %" - emu 'helr Maggie,
eht writes that out of a crew of sixty. RAGS AZ
all and the passengers there are gefber
O., -.
Si&ty'three saved. There could not gan to Il
en- less than ninety to one hundred and ther
rs, and the loss of. life, therefore, but they
at about one hundred per. to her.
he commander of the vsssoi Yarrow'
be among the lost. laborers
- while s
a. r.. the wide
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