The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1877-09-07
Some Of the Pictures Drawn by Cores
pondents in Bulgaria.
Edinburgh Scotsman Letter.

Nv 1tnln Thirty NafOS OF Wnefe /
had sought repose during the few
hours Of night | came upon house,
the walls still intact, but with some
of the woodwork still smOldering.
Such scenes, alas. had during the past
ten days been but too common, and
! would have passed il by mheeled
but that sickcning stencil excited my
curiosity. and ! peeped in at what had
been the door. ii is no eXaggeration
Ia say that what little hair had left
on my head rose with revolving terror
at the awful sight presented TO me.
The shell of the house inclOSed Il mass
of burned BulgarianS! Swollen, black
ened cOrpSes on battlefield, mutilat-
cd trunks, impllcd babies, crucifiCd
women, females cut open--all had
seen; vet none possessed half the terri
hle horror Of this ghastly cUmning-
ling of clIarred skeletons and half-cOn-
slImed bodies. Only part of them
were exposed for the roof had fallen
in on the south side, and covered more
than half the floor space; bnt i'm the
heap nearest the door ] counted the
remains of 33 human beings, besides
the disconnected limbs of many more.
They were of all ages and of both
sexes On the day before, at the cap
turc of Geni-Saghra, the Turks in the
town had risen upon the Bulgarians
and driven them into houses selected
for the purpose, locked them in, sur
rounded the houses set fire TO them,
and made of the Bulgarian wretches a
burnt offering 10 their vengeance.
Here, near the door, was the blacken-
ed corpse of Il man who had tried to
force the door while the flames were
= Int l.a1 1,,At,
shot i'm the chest, az could bescen from
the bullet hole in the charred flesh.
There was a skeleton, the vertebrie of
which had literally curled up; another
was doubled up with the most express
sive contortiOns; Il fourth, apparently
that of woman, had i'm agony clasped
the neck of fifth at its side. Over
against this heap were several with
the bones of the legs drawn up, the
skull thrown back, and grinning flesh
less in the most ghastly manner. The
remains of youths and babes were also
there, legs and arms twisted and bent
past resemblance 10 human form;
while limbs and skulls strewn here
and there showed that the hacked
bodies of the dead had been thrown
into that terrible furnace with the
living. Further up the village was
another hideOus pile; but words fail
me, and the heart turns sick at the
very remembrance of it. Here |
counted the reElains Of twenty-seven
human beings"
CAPT. GAMBLER IN LONDON TIMES.
The affair at Kara-Atli, however
sinks into insignificance before the
appalling horror of the massacre at
Gellla- Mahalisse. 1t appears that on
the 26th II strong force, under RaOlIf
PaslIa, made a reconnaissance from
leni-Saghra, and spent a night near
the village above named, which is
situated little off the line of rail he
tween Yeni-Saghra and TiInOva.
Aftcr the force had left, large body
of Circassians returned to the village,
and i'm the first place carried off an inn
mense number of young girls, whose
fate can only he guessed at. They
then returned to the village, and found
that the remainder of the women and
children had fled for protection 10 the
church. There they slaughtered them
all, and from that church Col. Len
noX and Lieutenant Chermside, X. f.,
military dttdchcs, and Messrs. Leslie
Meyrick, of the Aid To the Sick and
Wounded Society, brought out and
buried 80 DDttlcS OI WOlne1l anu CHI
drcn. Besides these, there were many
others killed in different places about
the village, and 3G wounded had their
wounds dressed 10y the above named
medical officers. These eyewitness
describe the scene in the church a.
something indcscribably awful. The
dead and the dying were piled i'm sut-
focating heaps, little children crawling
about looking for their mathers,
wounded mothers trying to move
thasc ghastly heaps TO find their chill
dren, and when found hardly able TO
recognize them with tile fearful sword
cuts about their little heads, Many
women had been violated aud sub
iected to fearful barharlties, pregnant
women ripped open, while Others had
their breasts cut off or their hands
chopped off at the wrist. 4 mother
liIy stone dead and her baby was vain
IN endea Voring tu got the food for
which it was starving, while an older
child was calling aud pushing the dead
woman To try and make her awake.
Even while these gentlemen were in
the village the numbering was Giiiug
on at another part, and ~ threatening
were these feroCiaps sItfians that their
lives st0qd ia very great danger. A
Ciroassiau from behind "A hedge took
a deliberate shot at MIR. Meyrick, but
missed him."