The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-06-04

The First Crusade Starts,
SATURDAY, JUNE &, 1910.

Like all the great movements OF man
| kind, the Crusades must be traced u
| the coincidence OF many causes "blcu
| influenced men OF various nations nnG
dscordant feelings, at the same period
| OF time. To pursue one common end WIN
| their whole heart For many centuries
| pigrimascs had been undertaken TO thy
| Holy Land by people from all parts oi
| Europe. In the year 1876 tho SelJouk
! Turks took possession of Jerusalem and
Immediately commenced harassinS she
pilgrims with unheard-of c&actions. Inc
rich were plundered and the poor IN
suited, cry FOR vengeance arose
throughout all Europe. and mems lninds
were fully prepared for an attempt TO
conquer Palestine. when Peter tho Her
NIT began 10 preach that 1T was sacred
duty 10 deliver the tomb of Christ from
tho hands of the nhdels.
This led up 10 the Council oi Ger,
mont, held in 1884 al which Pope Urban
II. presided. and delivered his eloquent
appeal which stirred the country TO ac-
tivity and started the agitation which
led TO the CrUsades.
The first army OF Crusaders 10 set out
on tho long march TO Jerusalem was q
mob of men. women and children, whicn
had not tho patience to wait for the or
g8nized movement OF tho military leaders.
banks Of the Mozelie and the Meuse. In
the spring OF 1886 with Peter the Her
NIT for their cho9en chief. The march
was finally started on June 4, with nine
knights only in the swarm, and but few
who had horses TO ride or efficient arms
TO bear, or provisions to feed upon.
Knowing nothing. and. therefore. fear
ing nothing. they marched away through
France. Germany. Hungary. and beyond,
begging food where they could and sub
slstlng by pillage when they found II
necessary. knight, called Walter the
Pennlless. led the van. and Peter fol-
lowed with his second division by an
other route. The line OF both was
strewn with the bones Of thousands. who
,s.E,,. Il IL
ease and by the swords of Hungarians
and BulgariaDs.
Walter the Penniloss and Peter the
Hermit reached Constantinople with
the great number who had fallen by the
way. They passed on into Asia Minor
where they attacked tho Turks. we're
beaten. routed, scattered, slaughtered.
until barely 5000 of the great host es-
capped
'Of this first Crusade" Gibbon says.
800 900 had already perished before a
single city WAS rescued from the infidels
before their graver and more noble
brethren had completed the preparations
of their enterprise"
Meantime the knights and princes Of
the Crusade had gathered their armies
and were now. In the summer OF 1895.
beginning to move eastward by different
routes This organized body Jared little
better than the rabblc under the Hermit,
The leaders fought among themselves.
'N''' ""s1 ll'' bll'li JuIN lO'', LIdl tIlty
saw the Holy City and assalled It's for
midable walls. Their number was re-
duced 10 10000, but their devotion and
their ardor rose 10 frenzy. and after
Siege of little more than a month they
forced an entrance by storm.
Glbbon. the historian says. "Then
they spared Mother age nor sex until
they had killed all who denied the Saw
Tor of mankind"
The second Crusade occurred In 1t47-
~; the third. 1891. the fourth, l2Oi-
OF. the NTH. l22S-29: sixth, l24S-54 and
was abandoned. The Crusades were a
great bcncflt 10 Europe in spite OF their
many Objectionable features and disas-
trous results,
June T. lSi3, Mexico declared war
against the United States. II is the
birthday of DR.. William Harvey, who dis