The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-08-25
SITUATION is WORSE
TURKS AND INSURGENTS MAKE
BALKAN CONDITION INTOLERABLE,
NEAR BULGARIAN FRONTIER.
INSURGENTS PLAN TO REMOVE
CENTER OF OPERATIONS.

Revolution Grows In AdrinnOpIe.
Turks Commit UnspeaISabIe Afro
cities-MutiIated COrpses of Ninety
Women and Children mt Krushevo.
Most Villages of NIOnnstfr De-
strOyed.
Sofia, Aug 24.-With the rumors of
massacres and the murder of prison.
ers in Monastir now authenticated the
general situation is considered here as
fast becoming intolerable. Official and
diplomatic circles alike are concerned,
having every reason to fear that only
a part of the horrors enacted in the
interior of Macedonia have come to
light as yet.
The Revolutionary Committees are
doing their utmost to force the hands
of the Bulgarian government, and the
| immediate outlook is exceedingly seEi-
Gus.
1t appears that the Turks have OBJ
tanned the upper hand in the vilayet
OF Monastir and the insurgents are
planning to remove the center of their
activity close to the Bulgarian from
tiers Dispatches arriving to-day from
the disturbed area are exceedingly
gloomy From Adranople comes the
news of a Turkish defeat and the ex-
tension of the revolutionary outbreak:
from Monastir the news of Turkish
victories, accompanied by barbarous
excuses.
UnspeakabIe Atrocities.
While many of the reports remain
without confirmation, sufficient auL
thentic details are Forthcoming to
cause the authorities the greatest
anxiety. According to the Sofia Dnev-
mix, the Turks committed unspeakable
atrocities at Krushevo. The mutilated
corpses of ninety women and children
were found in one building; pieces OF
the bodies had been thrown into the
street. Fifteen of the principal mer-
chants of the town were killed and
their heads exhibited on poles at
Monastir. The churches were de-
molished. the houses attacked and the
town is now in heap OF ashes. The
populace fed to the hills, where they
are in starving condition.
The Dnevnik also asserts that a gem
eral massacre has taken place in the
whole vilayet of Monastir. Nearly all
of the villages have been destroyed.
The treacherous murder of eighty in
surgent prisoners by their guards near
Monastir has made an especially bad
impression here.
Many runors are current of massa-
ores in the city of Adrianople but con-
firmation is lacking. The situation
there, however. undoubtedly is serious.
The population is afraid to leave the
houses. The prisons are full and the
Vail has taken private houses to be
used as jails. When the Russian con-
sui protested at the situa ton, the Vail
is reported to have answered that he
was powerless against the fanatical
population.
Insurgents in saIonica.
Salonica, European Turkey, Sunday.
| Aug. 23.-An insurgent movement is
afoot In the vilayet of Salonica. 1t Is
feared that 1t threatens Vodena
(forty-six miles from here), Salonica
and other towns. Well informed per-
sons here share in the general dis
quietude.
Large bands are reported to have
been organized by Bulgarians who, IL
is expected, at a given signal, may
resort to general incendiarism. The
| Turkish population Is resolved, should
great disturbance occur, to exter1ni-
nate all the Bulgarians in this city.
| Consequently a number of Bulgarian
residents are leaving Salonica.
Massacres and Atrocities.
Sofia, Aug. 24.-Reports from Monas-
tir authenticated by the Russian and
Austrian consuls, give horrifying de-
tails of the massacres and atrocities.
At the village Of Armensko the Turks
destroyed $50 houses out of a total OF
157, and massacred every man. woman
and child. Women were subjected to
most terrible atrocities by the soldiers.
Eighty revolutionaries captured at
Krushevo, who were sent in the direc-
ton of Monastir in chains, were
slaughtered by their guards.
The sanitary conditions of Krushe-
vo are, described as revolving. The
dead are lying in the streets stripped
of every garment, the Turks even TAX
ing the vestments off the body OF a
priest.
Bulgarians Used Dynamite.
Vienna, Aug 24.-The Neue Freie
Presses Constantinople correspondent
telegraphs that a band OF Bulgarians
has attacked the Turkish town of Ur-
| gas, south of Iniada, on the east coast
Of Turkey, and have blown up the
government buildings with dynamite. Il
is reported that 200 persons were killed.
With Slaughter and Fire.
Sofia, Bulgaria, Aug 24.-The Turks
| are reported to have massacred all the
women and children in twenty-five VIII
lagos Of the districts of F'lorina and
| Monastir and to have afterwards burn
| ed the villages. They are also alleged
| to have killed a number of prisoners.
Christians Massacred.
Sofia, Aug. 24-Travelers who arriv-
| ed here this evening from Adrianop1e
| state that a massacre Of Christians oc-
! Cured there Sunday morning.
One version says the guns in one of
the forts opened fire on an insurgent
band which had attacked a military
outpost A panic followed inside the
town. and the Mohammedan population
fell upon the Christians
According to another version, a Turk
ish officer tried to force an entrance
| into a Bulgarian house In order 70 mo-
lest the inmates The latter resisted,
whereupon the Mohammedans became
excited and bands OF soldiers ana
Bashi- Bazouks attacked the Bulgarian
quarter Of the town.
II Is announced that the foreign con-
suls addressed energetic protests 70 the
vail. who declared his inability 70
check the fanaticism Of the Mussul-
] mans.