The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-08-25
TURKS WORSE
THAN FIENDS
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COMMIT UNsPEAKABLE ATRoci-
TIES IN BULGARIAN TOWNS.
PARADE HEADS ON POLES
NutiIated Bodies Of Women and Chill
dren Heap Streets and
Fill Houses.

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Fill Houses.
Sofia, Aug. 24.-With the rumors OF
and the murder Of prisoners
in Monastir now authenticated, the
general situation is considered 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 committee is do
ing it's utmost to force the hands OF
the Bulgarian government and the i'm
mediate outlook is exceedingly serious.
It appears that the Turks have OBJ
tanned the upper hand in the villayet
of Monastir, and the insurgents are
planning to remove the center OF their
activity close to the Bulgarian from
tiers. Dispatches arriving today from
the disturbed area are exceedingly
gloomy. From Adrianople m 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.
While many of the reports remain
without confirmation, sufficient auth
entic details are at hand to
the authorities the gravest anxiety.
According to the Sofia Dvenenik, the
Turks committed unspeakable atroci-
ties at Krushevo.
Ninety corpses in One Building.
The mutilated corpses of 80 women
and children were found in one build
ing. Pieces of the bodies had been
thrown in the street. Fifteen OF the
principal merchants of the town were
KILLED and their heads exhibited on
poles at Monastir.
The churches were demolished, the
houses sacked and the town is now a
heap of ashes. The populace fed TO
the hills, where they are in a starv-
ing condition. The Dvenenik also as
serts thai a general massacre has
taken place in the whole villayet OF
Monastir. Nearly all the villages have
been destroyed. The eachero muir
der of so i%nsurgent prisoners by gen
darmes had made an especially bad
impression here.
Streets Strewn With Dead.
The Turks are reported to have
mastered all the women and children
in % villages of the districts OF Flor
ina and Monastir and afterwards tt
have burned the villages. They are
also alleged to nave killed a number o
prisoners. The STREETS Of Krushevo ar
said to be strewn with dead and tn
survivors are afraid to bury the bod
les, fearing to incur the suspicion 0
the Turks.
Following the proclamation OF tn
revolution throughout the villayet Q
Adrianople, the insurgents cut all tn
telegraph lines connecting the city Q
the villayet.
There are unconirmed rumors her
that fighting and massacres are pr
eeeding in the streets OF AdrlanOplt
Outrage Women.
Reports from Monastir, authent
Gated by the Russion and Austria
eonsuls. give horrifying details OF tn
massacre and atrocities. At the vi
hge of Armensko the Turks destroye
$50 houses out of a total of 157 an
massacred every man, woman an
child. The women were subjected 4
the most terrible atrocities by the SO
d1ers. Eight revolutionists, capture
at Krushevo, who were sent in tn
direction of Monastir in chains, WEI
slaughtered by their guards.
The sanitary conditions at Krusl
evo are revolving. The dead are lyin
in the street, stripped of every ga
ment, the Turks ever taking the yes
ments off the body of a priest.
Not over-Wise.
There is an old ~allegorical -pictul