Gilpin observer., 1903-08-27
OUTLOOK rs GLOOMY
WHOLESALE MAssAcREs ARE RE.
PORTED IN MACEDONIA.
Country Ravased First by Ore ard
Then Other Of Cor .anaing Forces.
Turks Murder Prisoorro at Mcrastir.
Insurgents clay carri-on..

Insurgents slay Carrleor.
Sofia, Aug. 25.-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. Offcial and
diplomatic circles alike are concerned.
having every reason to fear that only
part OF the horrors enacted III the
interior OF Macedonia have come 10
light as yet. The revolutionary COM
mittees are doing their utmost to
force the hands Of the Bulgarian gov
ernment and the Immediate outlook
is exceedingly serious. II appears
that the Turks have obtained the upper
hand in the vilayet of Monastir and
the insurgents are planning to remove
the center of activity close to the Bul
garian frontier. Dispatches arriving
from the disturbed areas are exceed
ingly gloomy From Adrianople comes
the rumor of a Turkish defeat and the
extension of the revolutionary cut
break. From Monastr comes the
news of Turkish victories. acccmpa-
MED by barbarous excesses.
Travellers who arrived here from
Adrianople state that massacre OF
Christians occurred there Sunday
morning. One version says the guns
in one of the forts opened Are on an
insurgent band which had attacked
military outpost. A panic followed in
side the town and the Mohammedan
population fell upon the Christians.
According to another version.
Turkish officer tried to force an en-
trance into q Bulgarian house in cr-
der to molest the inmates. The lat
ter resisted, whereupon the Moham-
medans became excited and bands of
soldiers and Bashi-Bazouks attacked
the Bulgarian quarter. 1t is under
stood the foreign consuls addressed
energetic notes to the vail. who de-
clared himself unable to check the ex-
cesses of the Mussulmans.
While many of the reports remain
without confirmation sufficient auther-
tic details are forthcoming to cause
the authorities the gravest anxiety.
| According to the Sofia Dnevnik, the
Turks committed unspeakable ex-
|
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 Mon
astir. Tho churches were demolished.
| the houses sacked and the town is
now in a heap of ashes. The populace
fed to the hills, where they are in a
starving condition. The Dnevnik also
says that general massacre has
taken place in the whole vilayet OF
Monastir. Nearly all the villages have
been destroyed. The treacherous nur-
der of eighty insurgent prisoners by
their guards at Monastir has made an
especially bad impression here Many
rumors are current of massacres in
the city OF Adrianople, but confirma-
don 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 situation the vaE
Is reported to have answered that he
was powerless against the fanatical
population.
Anarchy exists at Losengrnd. Fight
ing Is proceeding everywhere in the
neighbOrhood. Insurgent bands have
occupied the strategic points around
Malkoternevo. Eight villages to the
north of Losengrad have been burned
by Bashi-Bazouks. while the insur.
gents attacked two Turkish posts in
the vicinity OF the same town and
killed their entire garrisons. consist
/ Ing OF sixty soldiers and one officer
At Almogic sixty insurgents are en-
] gagged in fighting with 300 Bashi-Ba.
zouks. The result is not known. The
town Of Bunar Hissar has been burned
and part of the Bulgarian popula.
.tion was massacred. The rest Of The
Bulgarians fed to the mountains.
At Burgas Majura, after eighteen
hours fighting. the garrison was killed
by rebels. who also destroyed the gar,
risons of S!lklihor and Kalovo.
New outbreaks are reported from
the vicinity of Kresna. where serious
fighting has occurred.
st. Petersburg, Aug. 24.-The Rus
sian Black sea squadron. which was
ordered TO Turkish waters and which
arrived at Iniada, eastern European
Turkey. Aug. 10. to support Russia s
demands on the sultan. growing out of
the assassination of NJ. Rostkowski.
Russian consul at Monastir. has been
recalled to Sebastopol. the squadron's
point of departure. The recall fol-
lowed a notification OF the porte that
the sultan had ordered all the Rus
sian demands to be complied with.
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