Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-04-29

sand fanatical soldiers forming the
sultan's guard and the Young Turkish
forces under the command of Cheftek
Pasha, the garrison of the Yildiz XII
osk surrendered Saturday morning.
1t is estimated that 1000 soldiers were
killed in the fighting and thousands
wounded.
Sultan Prisoner In Palace.
The Young Turks followed up the
surrender of the garrison by throw
ing a heavy column of their own sol
diers around the palace, thereby max
ing the sultan a prisoner. The Young
Turks leaders are now in a confer
ence with him which will decide his
fate.
The garrison fought with the wild
est courage and the survivors did not
surrender until their barracks had
been destoyed by the artillery fire
of the Young Turks and the garrison
itself practically exterminated.
Foreigners Not Yet in Danger.
The foreign population is in no Inn.
mediate danger, though two foreigners
are reported to have been killed.
Frederick Moore, an American cor
respondent for the New York Sun,
is among the injured. He was shot
while trying to have a picture of the
start of the firing. The soldiers mis-
took his camera for a deadly machine
and fired upon him.
Bloody Massacre Imminent.
There is the gravest danger that
one of the bloodiest massacres in the
worlds history is soon to be enacted.
The entire Mohammedan population
of Constantinople threatens to rise
up and seek revenge for what they
consider the Christian victory of the
Young Turks and the danger that con-
fronts their religion.
The investing army of Young Turks
is far too small to combat the thou
sands should they begin rioting, as
there are nearly a million fanatics in
Constantinople and the territory i'm
mediately surrounding.
Heights Strewn With Dead.
The heights surrounding the Yildiz
Kiosk are strewn with the dead OF
the ten hours fighting, while the Pera
quarter also bears grim evidences OF
the ~fierceness of the struggle. The
Tachkichla and Matchka barracks in
the Pera quarter, where a large part
Of the reactionary troops barricded
themselves, were the scene of some
of the fiercest fighting, nd the miracle
is that more Europeans were not
killed.
Battle RACES All Night.
The fighting really began Friday
night at 7 o'clock, when the soldiers
of the Daould barracks returned from
attending the sultan on his trip to and
from the Selamlik ceremony in the
mosque and found that the Young
Turks soldiers, including a battalion
of Salonica Chasseurs, had occupied
their barracks.
There was a brief engagement then,
in which two were killed. The real
engagement, however, did not begin
until 5 O'Clock Saturday morning,
when the battle broke out in all its
fury.
The Daould barracks are just out
side the STEAMBOAT walls. The sultan's
soldiers were the first to open fire,
After the initial fusillade the fighting
ceased for a time. Both sides imme-
diately began to bring up reinforce
ments and the entire population be
came crazed with a Hundreds
rushed to the embassy grounds of the
various legations and pleaded for pro
lection. The people fled from the
streets as from a wall of fire, and
locked themselves in their homes.
Machine Guns Now Down Scores.
within a few hours both sides hat
machine guns in position and the &C
tual battle was in progress. The
Young Turks soldiers poured into the
city from their camp at San Stefant
and their other rendezvous. 1t was
o evident ~that the Young Turks
could overwhelm the r~eactionaries
frheir soldiers we're better armed anC
better differed, and they swept dowI
on the defenses Of the sultan's sol
diers with irresistible fury.
One Of the bloodiest engagement
! was fought on the Rue Grande, tn
principal street Of the Pera quarter
The r~eactionaries fled along thi
street in an effort to reach the Frencl
> hospital for a refuge.
They were pursued the entir
length of the fashionable thorough
: fares by the Young Turks and tn
streets were covered with corpses
Many Of the foreigners houses wer
3 badly damaged by the fire of the so
diers: The Russian embassy was il
!, the direct line of the fighting and 1t
: windows were broken by stray shots
The French, German and BIRTHS
embassies, all in the Pera quarter
. were close to the scene Of the engage
! ment, while the American embass
! was but half a mile distant.
I All the embassies were surrounds
by the attachments of the Youn
Turks, who furnished magnificent pre-
lection.
The Yildiz Kiosk was not attacked
|. though 1t escaped only because tn
! garrison surrendered before the pa
s ace was reached. The fighting wa
gradually drawing lear the palac
4 when the surrender was announced