The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1878-01-08
AuARvEsr OF DEATH.

Mr.. McGahnn, tho correspondent of
the London Daily News at Pleyna,
sends terrible story of the state OF
things prevailing In aud around the
captured town. Before the recent
great storm Pleyna was simply a char
mel house. Modern warfare has no
parallel for it. The famished dogs, of
which there are always large numbers
IN every Turkish town, were feeding on
the corpse Of the dead aud the bodies
of the still living wounded. The saw
age howls of the greedy brutes as they
tore the putrid flesh Of the dead or
crunched the bones between their teeth
the cries aud groans Of tho wounded as
they
vAINLY sTBUddLED WITH THE DOGS,
might be heard for miles around, aud
made the soul sick. Birds were peck
ing at the skulls, hopping from body
To body. with beaks and plumage be-
smeared with human blood, aud
screaming with fiendish delight. Dogs
fought among themselves, and bird
struggled with bird for the possession
Of a morsel of human flesh, aud the
most describsble horror prevailed. In
one house alone thirty-seven dead and
thirty-three wounded Turks were found,
some OF the latter in half decompos-
ed and patrid state, and the wounded
in q condition that can more easily I'M
agined than described. Some Of the
wounded were able TO crawl about and
oLurcnED AT ODD MoRsELs OF FOOD
that were found in the hands of the
dead devouring il with feyerish avidity.
But thousands Of them were utterly
helpless, and awaited death or succor
with a hstless fatalism. Eighteen
hundred prisoners were huddled to-
gether on the bank OF the yid, and the
horrors OF the great plague which raw
aged Europe in the fourteenth century.
Living and dead were piled together
promiscuously in heaps, like wood and
carted away. There were only three
carts available for this work, and the
confusion was indescribable. Osman's
bravery is stained aud blackened 10y
his treatment OF the Russian wounded
that fell into his hands. His gallant
defense OF Plevna for a moment blind
ed the victors aud Europe to the fact
that
ALL PRISONERS WERE BUrcHERED
by the troops under Osmsn's command.
A Bucharest correspondent says that
fearful retribution has overtaken
part Of Osman's army, which was
caught on the march by that dreadful
storm. Fate seems 10 be wreaking
yengence for the slaughter OF the Rus
sian wounded, whose corpses lie un-
buried on the hills around Plevna.
TURKISH MoRrALrTT AT PLEvSA.
A correspondent, writing from Plov-
na. states that when the Turks made
their sortie they left thousands of sick
aud wounded starving and unattended.
These uDfoTtunates remained in tins
state three days, and hundreds of them
died. Over thousand have been al
ready buried, and about one hundred
corpses come from hospitals daily.
Undoubtedly many who were not quite
dead have been buried. Those killed
in battles were unburied on tue 18th.
Turkish prisoners are eucamped among
them, aud are almost starving. Pleyna
is one vast charnel-hOuse, surprising
in horro- anything imaginable.
An English gentleman just in from
the Plevns road says he counted two
hundred and sixty dead bodies of Bull
garians lying by the roadside in dis
tance of sixty miles. The statement
made 70 him was that these men were
peasants from distant parts Of the
country, whose teams had been press
ed into the service for army transpor-
tation. They safely made the journey
to Plevna, and, after being discharged,
while stragghog along the road on the
homeward journey, they had been shot,
one at a time, by Turkish refugees, who
wished to use the teams in their flight
before the Russian advance. The hor-
rors Of this war are absolutely limitless.
Three hundred and sixty Jewish refug-
ees have arrived here, via Austria aud
Roumania, from Bulgaria. They have
been subjected TO every insult and out
rage by the Bulgarian Christians, aud
have escaped 10 the Turks for safety.
The Bulgarians justify their sayagery
toward the Jews by charging them
with acting rs spies, and the Jews de-
fend their conduct by charging pre-
vious outrages on the Bulgarians. 1t
is series of ordinations and recrimi-
nations that have neither beginning
nor end.