The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-08-25
KILLED WOMEN
AND CHILDREN
Turks MaSsacFed the Inhabitants
Of twenty-five Villages.
INSURGENTS BLOODY WORK
ENTIRE GARRISON BUTCHERED
AT VASILIKo.

y y y y \ y y \ y = = = y y y
y Sofia, Aug. 24-Travelers who >
= arrived here this evening from .
= Adrianople state that a massacre
= OF Christians occurred there Sun
= day. One version says the guns ?
= in one OF the forts opened FIRE on =
y an insurgent band which had at =
y tackled a military outpost. A panic =
y followed inside the town, and the =
= Mohammedan population fell upon >
= the Christians.
Q OFIA. Bulgaria. Aug. 24.-The Turks
are reported to have massacred ali
the women and children in twen-
ty-two villages Of the districts of Flor
ina and Monastir and afterwards to
have burned the villages. They are
also alleged to have killed a number
OF prisoners. The streets Of Krushevo
are said to be strewn with dead, ard
the survivors are afraid to bury tho
bodies, fearing to incur the suspicion
of the Turks.
Following the proclamation Of the
revolution throughout the vilayet Of
Adrianople. the insurgents cut all the
telegraph lines connecting the city OF
AdrianOple with the eastern parts OF
the vilayet.
that fighting and massaeres are pro-
ceeding in the streets Of AdrianOple.
HOrrifying Details.
Reports from MOnastir. authenticated
by the Russian and Austrian consuls.
give horrifying details OF the massacres
and atrocities. At the village Of Ar
mensko the Turks destroyed 15t
houses out OF a total Of 157 and massa-
cred every man, woman and child. The
women were subjected 10 the most ter
rible atrocities by the soldiers. Eight
revOlutiOnaries, captured at KrusheVO,
who were sent in the direction Of Nor
astir in chains. were slaughtered by
their guards. The sanitary conditions
Of KrushevO are revolving. The dead
are lying in the streets, stripped Ct
every garment. the Turks even taking
the vestments off the BODY of a priest.
War to the Knife.
Anarchy exists at Losengrsd. Fighting
Is proceeding everywhere in the neigh
bOrhood Insurgent bands have occupied
the strategetic points around Malkoter-
nevO. Eight villages TO the north of Lee
sengrad have been burned by Bashi-
Bazouks. The insurgents attacked two
Turkish posts in the vicinity of the same
town and killed the entire garrison, con-
sisting of sixty soldiers and one officer.
! At Almoglc sixty insurgents engaged in
Z fighting with 800 Bashi-Bazouks. The re-
/
The town of Bunar Hissar has been
! burned and a part of the Bulgarian pop
ulauOn was maSSacred- The rest OF the
/ Bulgarians fled TO the mountains
At Burgas Maiu. after eighteen hours
/ fighting. the garrison was killed by reh-
I els. who also destroyed the garrisOns Of
| Sill1lihor and KaiovO.
Many Turks Slain.
At Kaicunvo the insurgents killed fifty
/ seven Turks and fifteen We're killed AZ
/ Kukoibi. in the vilayet Of Usl<Ub. New
I outbreaks are reported from the vicinity
/ of Kresna, where serious fighting has
/ occurred.
The Macedonian organizations in Sofia
] and throughout Bulgaria are buSily en-
/ gagged trying TO help their brethren across
| the border
1t is said that the rival committees
| have buried their differences and are now
/ working in harmony, confident that the
I rich Bulgarians, who have hitherto with
held their contributions on account of the
/ committees dissensiOns, viii now give
/ literally.
The Macedonian leaders admit that the
| insurrectiOn in the Vilayet of MOnaStir is
practically at an end, and they appear TO
/ pin their hopes on the transfer of active
! operations to the territory near the Bull
/ garian frontier. Within three weeks,
| they assert. eastern Macedonia viii be in
( full revolt and then the Bulgarian gov
| eminent will be. forced to take action.