The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-01-03
TERRIBLE STORY OF THE STATE OF
THINGS IN AND AROUND PLEvNA.
FAnsHED Does FEEDING ON TIE BODIES OF
DEAD AND WOUNDED.
Merssls of Food Found in the Hands
Of the Dead.

The following cable-gram to the In
ter Ocean is from the New York Her.
AIDS bureau of correspondence, and
dated December Goth, 1877:
Mr.. Macgahan, the correspondent of
the London Daily Neps at Pievna,
sends terrible story of the state OF
things prevailing in and around the
captured town. Before the recent
great storm Plevna was simply a char
mel house. Modern warfare has no
parallel for it, aud its horrors can only
be compared to those which followed
in the wake of Ghenghis Khan or Ii
mour, IS their savage Tartar hordes
swept over and desolated Asia. The
famished dogs, of which there are al
ways large numbers in every Turkish
town, were feeding on the corpses of
the dead and the bodies of the still
living wounded. The savage howls
of the greedy brutes as they tore the
putrid flesh Of the dead and crunched
the bones between their teeth. the
cries and grosns of the wounded as
they yainly struggled with the dogs,
might be heard for miles around, and
made the soul sick. Birds were pick
ing at the skulls, hopping from body
to body, with beaks and plumage de-
smeared with human blood, and
screaming with fiendish delight. Dogs
fought among themselves, and bird
struggled with bird tor the possession
of morsel of human flesh, and the
most indescrihable horror prevailed.
in one house alone 81 dead and 50
wounded Turks were found, some Of
the former in half decomposed and
| putrid state, and the wounded in a
state that can better be imagined than
described.
| Some of the wounded were able to
crawl about, and clutched at odd NOR
| sells of food that were found in the
hands of the dead, devouring it with
ieverish avidity; but thousands of
them were utterly helpless, and
awaited death or succor with a list
less fatalism. One thousand prisoners
were huddled together OH the bank of
The Vid, ard the horrors of their po.
| sition equaled those Of the great plague
which ravaged Europe in the four
teenth century. Living and dead were
piled together promiscuously in heaps
like wood, and carted away. There
| were only three carts available for the
work land the confusion was indescrib-
able. Osman's bravery is stained and
blackened by his treatment of the
Russian wounded that fell into his
hands.
The Bucharest correspondent of the
Herald says that fearful retribution
has overtaken part Of Osman's army,
which was caught on the march by
that dreadful snowstorm. Fate seems
to be wreaking vengeance for the
slaughter of the Russian wounded,
whose cerpses lie unburied on the hills
around Plevna.
BISMARCK.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
LONDON. December pa CORES
pendent writing from Plevna states
that when the Turks made their sortie
they left thousands of sick and wound
ed, starving and unattended. These
unfortunates remained in this state
three days, and hundreds Of them died
Over a thousand have been already
buried, and about 100 corpses come
from the hospital daily. Undoubtedly
many who were not quite dead have
been buried Those killed in the bat
ties were unburied on the 18th. The
Turkish prisoners are encamped
among them, and are almost starving.
Pievna is one vast charnel house, sur
passing any thing imaginable.