The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-07-13
The Daily Leader.
ss-Onicial paper of the City, County, Ter
ritory and United States.
The Turks in Bosnia.

Miss Irby, a philanthropic English
woman who has been engaged in works
of mercy in the Turkish provinces,
writes from Bosnia to the Right Hon.
w. E. Gladstone as follows: since
writing the above have seen several
peasants from the plundered villages OF
Ticevo and Preodac, and have con-
versed at leisure with three of the four
women who were carried off by the
Turks, from whom they escaped on
Saturday night into Austrian territory.
On Thursday afternoon the cry reached
the village of Ticevo. "The Turkish
soldiers are comingl" Before the
troops reached the village all the in
habitants had run away except an old
man of eighty and few women and
children. The old man was seized and
dragged before Small Pasha and asked
where were the insurgents. He did
not know.
care you so foolish as to expect that
the Austrian Gar will take the lands
of our Sultan?'' The poor terrified old
man protested that the Christians were
pei Ifectly contented under the rule of
the Sultan and wished for no change
whatever. On this, by command of the
pasha, he was left alone. Then these
four women were questioned where
were the men of the village and
threatened with the soldiers knives to
make them answer. They were car
ried off by the troops, driven with cruel
force on the march by day, and spend
ing the nights in the tents with the
soldiers. In speaking of these two
nights in the Turkish tents they hid
their faces and said, Better it would
have been that we had perished; if
there had been fire we would have
sprung into it, or if there had been
water we should have drowned our
selves, but there was neither fire nor
water" Their fear now is that God is
very angry with them, and will send
them to hell for what they have suf-
fered. The poor girl Stoja, whose whole
figure bespoke despair, hid her tear
swollen face on the shoulder of the
other woman. Their terror and con-
fusion on arriving here are not to be
described, but they were reassured by
kindenss. We have arranged that these
four women who suffered so terribly
should receive a regular supply OF corn,
and we have given them flax, that they
may have some occupation. Like
Dosta, they are simple, modest peasant
women of the better class; but for their
costume they might have been English
cottagers. The night that the women
were carried off from Ticevo the troops
halted at Polye; the second night at
Naleshevic. Not daring to attack the
insurgent camp at Czerny Potok, the
Turkish commander turned back at
Turica to return to Livno, and on Satur-
day evening, in the dark the women
escaped into the woods. The fourth, a
girl of fifteen. had suffered so terribly
that she sank down in the flight. On
reaching the frontier the other three
found the mother of this girl who had
escaped previously. When she was
told of the bitter sorrow of her daugh-
ter the poor woman rushed back to the
woods to seek her. No tidings have
been heard of them since. We inquired
the fate of the poor old man. He had
been left in the village. Nearly all the
houses are burned to the ground. In
this instance the cruel facts are easily
substantiated, but similar occurr ences
are taking place in distant and inacces-
sible parts of the country. Even to day
horrible tidings reach us from the val
ley of theUnnatz. An instance of
implement and roasting before . tire
is reported from the HerZogovian from
tier near Gabella. The account OF
atrocities now icing committed in the
remote parts of Stara Serbia are re-
voting beyond description.