The Indianapolis journal., 1903-08-25
Fear that Bnrbarous Excesses Com
mitted by Turks VIII Further In
flame the Country.
REBEL COMMITTEES ACTIVE
TRYING TO FORCE THE BULGARIAN
GOVERNMENT INTO WAR.
RumOrs of the Murder of Prisoners in
Monastir and Atrocities Else
where Confirmed.

SOFIA, Aug. 24.-With the rumors or mas
sacres and the murder of prisoners in
Monastir now authenticated the general
situation is considered here as fast becom-
ing intolerable. Official and diplomatic cir
cles alike are concerned, having every rea-
son to fear that only 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
serious.
1t appears that the Turks have obtained
the upper hand in the Vilayet of Monastir,
and the insurgents are planning to remove
the center of their activity close to the
Bulgarian frontier.
Dispatches arriving to-day from the dis
turbed area are exceedingly gloomy From
Adrianople comes the news of Turkish
defeat and the extension of the revolution
airy outbreaks: from Monastir the news of
Turkish victories. accompanied by barbar-
Gus excesses. While many of the reports
are without confirmation sufficient au-
thentic details forthcoming TO cause the
authorities the gravest anxiety.
According TO the Sofia Dnevnik the Turks
committed unsoeakable atrocities at Kru-
shevo. The mutilated corpses of ninety
women and children were found i'm
one building. Pieces of the bod
les had been thrown into 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 in a heap of
ashes The populace fled 10 the hills. where
they are in a starving condition. The Dnev-
mix also asserts that general massacre
Monastir. Nearly all the villages have been
destroyed The treacherous murder OF
eighty insurgent prisoners by their guards
near Monastir has made an especially bad
impression here.
Many rumors are current of massacres in
the city of Adrianople. but confirmation is
lacking. The situation there, however, is
undoubtedly serious. The population is
afraid to leave the houses. The prisons
are full and the vail has taken private
houses to be used jails. When the Rus
sian consul protested at the situation the
vail is reported to have answered that he
was powerless against the fanatical popu-
lation.
At the village of Armensko the Turks
destroyed 150 houses out of a total of l57.
and massacred every man, woman and
child. The women were subject to the most
terrible atrocities by the soldiers Eight
revolufionaries. captured at krushevo. who
sent in the direction of Monastir in
chains. were slaughtered by their guards.
The sanitary conditions of Krushevo are
described as revolving. The dead are lying
In the streets. stripped of every garment,
the Turks even taking the yestments off
the body of priest.
Anarchy exists at LoScngrad Fighting
is proceeding everywhere in the neighbor-
hood lnsurgent bands have occupied the
strategic points around Malkoternevo- Eight
villages To the north of Losengrad have
been burned by bashi-bazo zouks. while the
insurgents attacked two Turkish posts in
the vicinity of the same. town and killed
their entire garrisons. consisting of sixty
soldiers and one officer. At Almogic, sixty
insurgents engaged i'm lighting with three
hundred bashi-bazouks. The result IL not
known.
The town of Bunar lissar has been
burned and a part of the Bulgarian popu-
lafion was massacred. The rest of the Bull
garians fled to the mountains
AT Burgas Majura. after eighteen hours
fighting the garrison was killed by rebels.
who also destroyed the garrisons of Slklihor