The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-04-29
CHEEK FLIGHT FROM LARIsSA.
The Scenes That Marked 1t Unparalleled
 in Modern War History.

The Scenes That Marked 1t Unparalleled
 in Modern War History.
 Athens, April 2S.-The correspondent of The Associated Press at Larissa, who was with the retreating Greeks after the battle of Mati, has arrived here.
 When I overlook the Greek infan- try" he says, "the latter were in a struggling order, footsore and grimy from four days in the trenches and long exposure to shells enough to un- nerve veterans. They went along in silence. The night was pitch dark and the red glare at Kutari and Deliler in the distance added to the weirdness of the scene
 Later I passed batteries of artillery mule trains, carts, wagons, crying will lagers, women and children. It was pitiable All were hopelessly mixed up. There was no attempt at order. All arms were intermingled and the con fusion was completed by the shouts and rushes of the Evzones and irregulars in every style of outfit. Their previous sullenness gave place to the clamor of disappointed and disspirited men. They forgot their weariness in wild impreca- tions against their generals and other officers.
 The retreat became rout. Our carriage was slowly picking it's way through desperate men, crying women and children, and horses and donkeys, all overladen, which were creeping along at snaiTs pace or prancing with nervous fright
 Suddenly, above the din of the con- fused masses on the road and in the adjoining fields came roar, develop ing into fierce sustained yell, rolling from the distant rear with lightning speed. Soon, in the midst of this yell, could be distinguished cries of: The Turks are upon us.
 ''In a few moments a dozen horse men and as many riderless steeds ap- peared on the left at full gallop, the men shouting with frenzy: Run, run, | the Turks are here.'
 Into the night air rose this agonized roar, fairly paralyzing imagination. It will remain in my memory forever. "The stampede was immediate. The | animals were lashed into a gallop and men, women, children and soldiers l joined pell-mell in a mad rush; many who feli to the ground were trampled to death and vehicles were overturned, mixing up bedding, furniture, ammuni- tion, horses, donkeys, oxen and buff i falos
 1 According to one story, the horse men who so suddenly appeared and caused this fearful stampede were real | ly Circassian cavalry which debouched from Boughazi, but this report is not | generally believed.
 Beside our carriage two infantrymer appeared with faces blanched from ter. TOT They jumped upon the steps and we tried to keep them out. One of then thereupon leveled his rifle in our direc. ton. But suddenly their combined weights on the steps of one side of the carriage overturned it, smashed it tc pieces and the London Times core spondent and myself were thrown out I was penned by the leg under broker i timbers as the pandemonium arose in. | creased.
 l Tn a perfect insanity of terror sol i diers, irregulars and armed peasants began firing their rifles in every direc- 1 ton. From the front and rear, from right to left, the bullets whizzed, but tho reports of the firearms were scarcely heard above the roar of the humans an6 the terror of the maddened animals.
 Even in Shipka Pass. or in the hot. l test part of the fearful fighting al