The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-08-25
4 SCENE OF CONFUSION.

Additional Daily News dispatch from Smnitza.
Aug l: At the narrow bridge near Bugareni
there was wild confusion and complete block
tunbrlls. ambulance wagons, provision wa CONS,
Officers caleches. led horse and carts filed with
r%"umdad-ali were jammed in indescribable
chaos.
but the bulk of the wounded begun little
way hey6nd Bulgareni. and extended in an un-
broken line for miles along the road TO S!stova.
Eney were mostly carried III ok carts, severer
cases in amhuIanGes, and larger numbers
tramped on foot. Immense numbers Of the
wounded had tramped the whole way from the
battlefield. and were already entering SistOya
at six o'clock yesterday evening.
They must have walked forty miles in twenty
four hours, wounded as they were. Nearly all
of these wounded. however, consisted of men
VINO had somehow managed to walk out Of
battle.
The bad cases were mostly left where they
fell. staff officers, with whose estimate I am
inclined to agree, think the whole force lost be-
tween 6000 and 1000 men in killed and wounded.
brigade OF the 32d division has suffered most
heavily; besides Il terrible loss OF men, it sacri
hced the imperial banner of one OF its regiments.
The whole OF the 3Oth division has been smt-
ten very sOrely; all of the three brlgades of
Prince scharkowsty's command are, for the
time, in state of disOrganization.
A News dispatch from Alexandria says: It is
reported and generally believed that six thous-
and more Egyptian troops are going to Con
stantin0ple.
The Times correspondent at Varna telegraphs
August I'd: Corporations of the Russians in
Debrudscha have come to a perfect standstill
while one Of their columns stands on the high
road from Mejidjle to Silistra, the second and
main column, which had advanced towards
BazurdiIk, has again retreated to Mejidtie.
4 dispatch to the Daily telegraph from SIOUX
goum Kalch, dated August 2, says:
The Turkish fri@ate MaumOndieh bombarded
the Russian batteries at TchmtclIra on the 30th
nit, silencing every Russian gun. The Mau-
mondieh was considerably damaged and several
of the crew were killed and wounded. Near
Tchamtchira were 5000 Turks in critical posi-
ton, owing to the advance of the Russian army.
Hobart Pasha embarked the entire force
safely on the first instant under cover Of the
fee.F
q This completes the withdrawal OF the Turkish
milllaFY expedition TO Caucasus. Hobart
Pasha has command of the entire Black Saa
forces, consisting Of twenty aen-of-Wor aud
transports. "'A "No
G0NaTASTfS0PLE, Aug. 5.--The porto has
made public the following intelg, nee: The
Russians have been completely routed at Yence
sagira. with considerable loss, including two
guns, Il large quantity OF baggage and euufD-
nents. They fled IN disorder to EQniboShaz
vino pursued them tilither.
HAsHTNGToS, Aug. 5.-The following has
% been received from the Turkish Embassy
that the report that the Russian wounded ware
Killed ii the battle OF Pleyua Is false
THE ADMITTED LOSS 10 PLEvx..
LoxDoN, Aug. G-An official dispatch pub
ilsAeA III ~. FeteFsDilFE, admits the loss ot up
wards OF 5000 men at Plevna, including one
colonel Killed and major general ana two
c0ionels wounded The dispatch also admits
that Gen. G0urko has been obliged to retreat.
LONDON, Aug. "A dispatch from Constan-
tluope says: In a naval engagement on the
Sauna river the Turkish iron-clad6 attacked
seven Russian gunboats and destroyed two af
them.
The Times shurnla special con1rIns the report
thdt the russians have evacuated kazanek,
Wnlcn mas been occupied by suleiman Pasha.
The Daily Tejegraph's Vienna dispatch saya