The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-06-29
Successful Crossing Of the Cars
Troops at Three Points.
THE RUSSIANS IN BULGARIA.
Story Of the Passage
at Sie+oVa.
COMMANDMENTS ALONG THE line.
Two Hundred and Eighty
Miles of Fire.
PROCLAMATION TO BULGARIA.
Renewal Of the Struggle in
Asia Minor.
PROCLAMATION TO BULGARIA.
Renewal Of the Struggle in
Asia Minor.
[DY CABLE TO THE HERALD.1

In the words of the Grand Duke Nicholas'
official report 'the difficult and complicated
task Of crossing the Danube is achieved"
The Russians have already established
foothold in Bulgaria, from which it will be
impossible to dislodge them. Along the
entire line of $50 miles the most
desperately aggressive operations were
simultaneously begun. For three days the
placid waters Of the Danube have flowed
through the internal regions. The HERALD
correspondents in the field have forwarded
sheir reports to the chief Office in Bucharest,
whence it is forwarded at once to this point.
The detailed narrative of the crossing at
Sistova is another brilliant achievement for
the HERALD's correspondents at the front.
THE DAY BEFORE THE CROSSING.
Daylight broke on Tuesday serene and
apparently unpromising of great events;
but it soon transpired that it was
the day on which the active prepare
tions for the passage of the river
were to be concluded. From the Rus
sian batteries on the Roumanian bank,
along the entire line, cannonading began
in earnest The bombardment Of Rust
chuck had been dreadful up to this time
and had tended to cause general move
ment of Turkish troops toward that To-
cality.
MIGHT ON THE RIVERS BANK. u
In every Russian camp along the great
river the men were inspected during the
day. The arms were examined and the
cartridges were seen to be full count. The
troops CHARTERED in towns passed the night
more agreeably than those who slept in the
open field, because the latter were COM
PEELED literally to sleep with their guns
in their hands.
THE GRAND ADVANCE.
On Wednesday the first move in the
descent into Bulgaria was made at Kalarash.
The bombardment Of Widdin, Nicopolis,
Sistova, Rustchuk, Turtukai and Silistria
continued in more furious manner. The
scenes of destruction reported from Rust
chuk repeated themselves in every Turkish
town assailed.
BEATING BACK THE TURKS AT N1copoLrs.
The crossing at Nicopolis from Turnu-
Magureli was Witnessed by the Gar, who
sat on horseback on the summit Of
Mount Grapavi. The Turks made a
desperate resistance with every avail
able man whom they could mus
ter. Opposing the landing were ten
Turkish battalions and eighteen field can
non. Savage fighting took place on the
banks and in little time the corpses were
thickly strewn there. Still the Russians
came on for every man killed, ten were
ready to take his place.
sdaoo HLHeIa ALL
The Eighth Russian corps, under the
command of General Radetsky, embarked
behind the island of vardin, opposite the
mouth of the Jantra, some distance below
the town of Simnitza. The Fourteenth di-
vision covered the embarkation with field
artillery and sharpshooters.
RESISTANCE OF THE TURKS.
The Turkish force opposing this move
ment was soon reinforced from the neigh
boring towns Of Bjela, Batin, Nowigrad and
other points. but they did not arrive in
time to crush the first parties of Russians
that landed, and were met on the shore by
IN overwhelming force, which drove them
back by tremendous musketry fire.
TWO rErNrs MADE.
Attempts at crossing made by the Russians
at Rustchuk and Turtukoi were unsuccess-
full. These movements were evidently
feints to occupy the attention Of the Rust
chuk, Turtukoi and Silistria garrisons.
THE CROSSING AT srsrovA.
The HRRALD correspondent With the Rus
sian Eighth corps, which crossed at Sistoya.
reports, under date of Wednesday, from the
Bulgarian side, after the successful exc
cution Of the movement, that the prepare
tions for the crossing at that point
began in the swampy meadows below
Simnitza, whero the troops wero assem-