The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1909-04-30

lest lighting eJWeen tne uNe InOu-
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 q prisoner. The Young
Turks leaders are now in a confer
ence with him which will decide his
fate.
The garrison fought with the wild
surrender until their barracks had
been Destroyed by the artillery fire
of the Young Turks and the garrison
itself practically exterminated.
Foreigners Not Vet in Danger.
The foreign population is in no i'm
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 1 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 inn
mediately surrounding.
Heiahts 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 rea
engagement, however, did not begil
until S o'clock Saturday morning
when the battle broke out in all 1T
fury.
The Daould barracks are just out
side the STEAMBOAT walls. The sultan
soldiers were the first to open fire
After the initial fusillade the fghtinl
ceased for a time. Both sides imme
diately began to bring up reinforcs
ments and the entire population be
came crazed with a Hundred
!, rushed to the embassy grounds of tn
: various legations and pleaded for prt
lection. The people fed from tn
streets as from a wall of fire, an
t locked themselves in their homes.
: Machine Guns Now Down Scores.
: Within a few hours both sides ha
machine guns in position and the a.
tual battle was in progress. Tn
Young Turks soldiers poured into tn
l city from their camp at San Stefan
v and their other rendezvous. 1t wa
4 soon evident that the Young Turk
could overwhelm the reactionarie
= Their soldiers were better armed an
4 better differed, and they swept dow
on the d~efenses Of the sultan's so
diers with irresistible fury.
One Of the bloodiest engagement
n was fought on the Rue ,Grande, tn
Q principal street Of the Pera quartz
T. The r~eactionaries fed along tn
8 street in an effort to reach the Frenc
hospital for a refuge.
= They were pursued the entiI
length OF the fashionable thorougl
, fares by the Young Turks and ii
streets were covered with corpse
Many Of the foreigners houses wei
badly damaged by the fire Of the SO
Z diers: The Russian embassy was
= the direct line OF the hghting and 4
windows we're broken BY stray shot