The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1877-12-15
a Terrible Turkish Defest---
10000 Prisoners Taken.
esmaa PhSha SgrraHSaed on all Sides
and Forced 20 Surrender After an
Heroic Effort TO b 5ak the Llnes
The Field OF Carnage
CHASTITY Sight
The Soldiers in the 8eisagsred City Re-
Guced to Living Skeletons The Goa
gu0rer" va!0rous TO the Last and
0niy eapiiuated After Being
Severely Wounded.
tsraetou- AGA OF the CzRr-<lreat Ne ole.
Eng Throughout Rnssis over IN.
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Eng Throughout Russia over IN.
! Victory English Ne,ifaffaB Urged.
BoGERT, Dec. H.-At 7:3D O'Clock
this morning Osman Paslla's enti. ,
| ARMY attacked the Russian grenade,
corps, hoi,ii1g the lire Of investment
/ on the left bank of the river Vid, en-.
| deavoring To force n passage. The at
| tacA was made with desperate energy,
and portion of the Turkish troops
DID, ia fact, penetrate the line OF en-.
tTeDchaents and batteries, but all at
tempts 10 break enough positions OF
| grenadiers were Intellectual.
After five hours severe fighting the
Turks We're defeated. Osmau Pasha
was surrounded on all sides and COM
PEELED TO surrender with his whole
army. Up to the present time it is inn
/ possible 10 estimate the mum Der OF
| turkish prisoners, or the quantity o.
war material taken. We only know
| that everything in PIevna has fallen
| into our hands. The Russian losses
are uncomfortable compared with tie
! results obtained.
ST. PETERsBURG, December IL
EVening.-The news of the fall OF
PlevRa occasions great rejoicing here.
The theaters are celebrating The vic
tory by special additions to the usual
programmes. Enthusiastic popular
demonstrations in honor of the impe.
rial family and the army are made in
he streets and public places. Great
rowds are assembled, cheering and
iiDging national anthems. The city
partially illuminated.
LONDON, December 1.-THE Time
urges that the moment has now ar.
rived when mediation between Russia
and Turkey is possible, and that il il
10 be hoped that the British govern.
msnt will use all efforts to that effect,
LONDON, Dec. 1.-THE latest advices
from Bucharest put the number of
Turkish prisoners at 10000. Osman
Pasha ordered a sortie in the direction
OF Widden. His valor, which is de-
scribed as desperate, is everywhere the
theme of conversation. The suffering
OF the Turks in the belesgured town
was awful Cold, disease and famine
decimated their Ranks and reduced the
soldiers to living skeletons. To aggra-
vate their suffering, no doctors and no
medicine could be obtained. -Four
hundred CUPS fell into the hands of
The Russians. The ground which was
the scene of the sortie is literally
strewn with the dead and dying.
Osman Pasha himself was severity
wounded before he would consent to
surrender.
There has been an important rise in
all classes OF Russian securities on the
London stock exchange, aud they
maintain great firmness, notwith-
standing the fact that large realizing
sales have been thrown upon the mar
ket-
The general tone OF the London press
in commenting on the fall of PIevna is
to urge the government to seize the
present opportunity for mediation. and
while it may yet be too late, the Globe
says it is the duty of Minister Layard
to impress upon the mind ofthe sultan
the urgent expediency of giving weight
To pacific counsels before the resources
OF the empire are utterly exhausted.
A Bucharest dispatch says 7e Deum
woe sung there to celebrate the Rus
sian success ut Plevns. Prince Gortz-
schoff and the Russian and Roumanian
authorities were presented to the car
and prince. Gortzschofi will return to
St. Petersburg in a week.
The eZSr, after the surrender of Plev-
| ma, placed his own carriage and escort
ut the disposal of Osman pssha.
BUCHAREST, December IL The sor.
| tie in trent of PIevDa WAS solely
| prompted by the entire failure of pro-
visions. Oaman pssna crossed the riy-
| er pid, attacked aud took Fort Doini
| Etr0pOlji. The Russians and Rouma-
niens were hurried up from Susarla
and Bukoya. After the terrible ear
| mage, Osman attempted 10 re-enter
| Plerna, but it had meanwhile
been occupied by the Roumaniaps and
| Russians from GrivitZa. Osman, on
| finding himself thus surrounded, al
| though wounded in the foot, PERSONAL
| ly conducted the negotiations for the
surrender. He expressly announced
that he surrendered Internationally
| TO the emperor,
/ ioNDONt btCeHlUef IL ne eSti-
! mates of the number OF Turks cap
tured at Pievns, telegraphed from st
Petersburg last night, as being 10000,
| exclusive of q, 600 sick and wounded,
are worthless, rs there are no better
| means of estimating the number there
than here. The Vienna correspond
ent OF the Times. after careful sur
vey of operations about Plevna, siuce
| IyiV W IN a ~
! Inducements, arrives at the conclt-
sion that Usman pasha surrendered
less than thirty thousand men Alto
gether. -
| CoSsTANTiNoPLE, December 'i2.-
The fail Of Pievna Is officially an.
nouueed here. Mehemet Ali has been
removed from bis command and re.
| placed by Chakta pashs.
! A council Of state has decided to ap.
point three christian governors OF
provinces. -
CoNsrANITNoPLE. December II -
A grand council was held to-day at
the war office. Its subject was reso-
luton to carry on the war TO the last
extremity.
| LONDON, December 12.-Reuter's
telegram from Verbitza states that tle
ezsr wiH start for st. Petersburg SAT-
urdsy. He has visited Osman pasha
and returned to him his sword ia
recognition of his bravery. a M
LONDON, December I3.-The Russian
official account of the capture of Pley.
ma confirms the details already tele.
lgraphed. 1t nays the Turks fought Xix.
Hons. Seven pashas were captured.
The counting of prisoners and trophies
is not yet completed.
The emperor was present at thauks
giving service held on the site OF ths
former headquarters of Osman pasha.
The Russians had information thre,
days In advance Of Osman pasha,s In
tention to sortie ut seven In the morn
Ing. Osman crossed the Vid by tws
bridges, and attacked the Russian posi-
lions with such desperats fury tina
they captured eight cannon, and In /,
few minutes almost annihiiasesj tn,
ifberski Grenadier regiment. Tn,
Turks then found themselves upde
the IRE of . hundred cannon of tn,
Russian second line, and were ATTACHES
by the grepadiers, who resolved 4
capture their guns. The Turks ver,
driven back after q fifteen minutes
bayonet light, but continued to figh
: nom the shelter Of the banks ct "a,
Fid until I2:I5, when fifing ceased q
both sidea, and quarter Of an hou
Afterwards OsmAn sent an envoy {,
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