New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-21


nartlv buried hut when the crash was over
they were taken out by soldiers and others VINO
focked TO the scene. The director of the banR
lived above 1t. with his wife and five children.
the eldest seven years old. At the sound OF the
first bomb, which thrown into the WINDOW
he started downstairs with his family. He and
his wife carried the infant children in their
| arms and while they were scrambling DOWN
I ward the rear wall next to the German club
fell In front of them and demolished the stair
case They went to the back of the house anu
shouted from the window for a ladder. Before
one came the flames surging around them
so that they threw the children from the VIII
dow one by one into the arms OF people pelo"'
4 Only one child was injured, and husband and
wife finally descended by the ladder.
THE SLAUGHTER OF BULGARIANS.
This about completes the record of the attack
| by the Bulgarians. Many Of them died by their
own bombs: few were shot by soldiers; but
| the majority of the conspirators escaped till the
! following morning. During the night the gar
risons of Salonica and two battalions OF As1atic
| troops who had barely arrived were turned
| loose upon the town to maintain order as they
/ would They challenged every man. and those
| who would not halt were shot down. At day.
| break the ferreting out of the Bulgarians who
! had cone these things began At little house
| two doors from the American mission the
| fercest fight of the day occurred Two men,
| one former officer in the Bulgarian Army, and
| still wearing the uniform, held at bay for two
| hours two companies of Turks. In order that
| the men might not escape. company was sent
| through the narrow winding way leading to the
| house from each direction. In the frenzied ex-
| element into which the Turkish troops fail.
| especially those from Asia Minor who have no
| discipline they fired at random at the house
AS he soldiers
| from long range down the narrow street. the
| bullets would glance off and hit their own troops
| on the opposite side. In this way many Turks
| fell Three wagons came-Mr. Holway. one OF
the missionaries, tells me he saw them-and
| carried the dead and wounded away. Inc
| troops did not go within reach Of the bombs
| which were thrown at them till they thought
| the supply was exhausted. The two men had
| thirty with them, and used every one before
| sufrenderng. The Bulgarian officer was pierced
| by balls twice through the chest, but, splitting
| blood as he was, he would step out on little
| balcony strike his match. light the fuse to his
| bomb and throw 1t as far as his failing power
would allow. The two men saved the last bon1p
| for their adversaries as they broke In the door
below. The bomb was cast down upon the
Turks as they battered in the door with the
butts Of their guns. The men killed and wound
ed by It were trampled by the others eager
to get at their adversaries. The wounded man
fell exhausted as he threw the last bomb. too
feeble presumably, to carry out the plan of the
Bulgarian officers taken in this terrible strug-
gle-that of shooting themselves. The soldiers
fell upon the two exhausted men with the butts
of their guns beat them and kicked them out
into the street and left their mangled boo1es
there till the wagons picked them up later IN
the day Another fight of a similar nature oc-
CURED in a house not three blocks away. at the
TvxrO BULGARIAN officers
p college student each with twelve bombs held
the Turks off for an hour and half The boy
and one officer were killed. and the other shot
himself with his pistol.
BODIES PILED IN CARTS.
Throughout the day houses were raided and
suspected Bulgarans arrested Each arrest
was accompanied by brutal beating with the
butts of the guns Infatuated were the Turks
The estimate of the Vail of Salonica of the num-
Der of BuIgarians who were killed that day IS
forty-two, and four hundred Is the NUMBER or
arrests which he reports. Other estimates are
considerably higher During the afternoon or
binary dumpcarts were going about collecting
the bodies from the streets. Many of the friends
of the victims hesitated TO pick them up from
fear of sharing their fate at the hands of the
bashibazouks and gypsies who prowled about
and preyed on the Bulgarians hour after hour.
The number of BuIgarians in the hospitals is
unknown. The Turkish loss in killed ana
wounded, from careful estimates, Is said to be
not more than hundred. One Of the consuls
reported to the Vail here that he saw more than
twenty-five wagons pass his home, each piled
I'D with bodies. The Vail explained that the
wagons had first gone to morgue and had
passed there to the cemetery, where the Bull
gartan priest refused to bury the bodies, pro-
Tossing to believe that men who adopted such
methods of warfare did not deserve Christian
burial The bodies consequently were taken
back to the morgue and thence again to the
cemetery
A band of thirteen was discovered about
10 o'clock in the evening. The men had
thrown bombs the night before. The house was
surrounded and set on fire. Some OF the men
persisted by bullets and some by the flames
Several consprators without doubt, killed them
selves, as the Bulgarians have the utmost nor
ror of being beaten to death.
SCENES AFTER THE FIGHTING.
The gypsies have been running riot in one
ouarter Mr. Holway, the American missionary,
going into the Bulgarian quarter to see II he
could do anything for some of his parishioners,
was met by a band of marauding gypses and
taken into custody They were afraid to NAL
treat him on hearing him declare his American
citizenship, but took him to the police station
where he was Immediately released. These va
grants constitute themselves police, and order
everything they please Even Bulgarians
who have nothing to do with the revolutionary
bands are at their mercy The troops lend the
gypsies helping hand in intimidating and plum
dering Bulgarians. There has been a sudden
access Of evil passions Between the Asiatic
troops and the bashibazouks, the gypsies and