The Arvada enterprise., 1912-12-26
MOSLEMS SLAY $4,000
KILL CHRISTIAN WOMEN AND
CHILDREN AT ADRlANOPlE.
Crazed Inhabitants Took Refuge in
Churches, Where They Were
Pursued and Sacrificed.
xsstern Newspaper Union News Service.

Boston, Mass.-Frightful details of
the butchery of 10000 persons in the
besicged city of Adrianople by Mos
lens Immediately after the Balkan al
lance declared war against the Balkan
Alliance declared war against the OF
toman Empire. were given by the Bos-
ton Globe in a translation of a letter
sent by NaZariene Daan Kanibelle. an
officer in the Adrianople Turkish
army, to ]. j. Bosdcn. president of the
alliance. Ruthless. wanton slaughter
Of girls, women, and babes in arms,
is related in the letter, which, in part,
follows:
Human speech cannot describe the
agony ones soul feels in looking back
ovor the seven weeks of massacre and
mutual determination, in which 10000
were butchered here.
Like lightning from a clear sky
came the sudden announcement Of the
Balkan Alliance, and before the Turk
had time to recover from the shock
given him, the war was declared.
The gates of armories and barracks
were swung wide open. At the bar
racks at the Schiller Mahallelsy |
heard the commanding officer give or
ders to kill all Christians.
AT last that terrible Friday night
came. 1t was dusk. AS | stood at the
window at the Konah of Kendel Bey,
| saw several Imams (MohGmmedan
priests) on the minaret. | was star
tied by the sharp rattle of drum,
which betokCned the setting of the
first watch before midnight. A few
minutes had elapsed when the tower
became filled with men moving ex-
citedly.
The great bell of the Greek Or
thodox church began to toll, followed
by the bells of other Christian
churches.
Every window was thrown up; the
streets were crowded with men, wom-
en- and children, their hands filled
with hastily-snatched valuables, all
heading toward different churches, to
find refuge. Halfnaked people began
to run through the streets spreading
the terrible news of the arrival of the
Moslem Albanian plunderers.
Women, pressing their babes to
that overhung the streets, already in
undated with human blood
AT the Tepah, near the well ct the
Greek bishops house, met a crowd
of fifty girls who, frenzied with fear,
turned and fled. In an instant they
were surrounded by furious Moslcms
and butchered. The heart-rending
shricks Of innocent children added to
the already terrible scene.
in half an hour the outlying city
was completely devastated.
Meantime the Moslems of Adrian
ople, reinforced bu the outsiders, took
up their fiendish work Toward mid
night the city was hell. The roars of
million tigers could not initiate the
1eath-shrieks of the unfortunate thou
sands. The city was set on fire in
many sections and thousands were en-
Veloped in the flames. In the morn
ing the streets were strewn with dead.
"On Saturday morning ] counted
forty-siX carts loaded with the bodies
of Christians. piled in like SO many
cattle carcasses. Thousands of them
were cast in the river and have been
washed ashore three miles below.
The soldiers CT the fort district
have dumped seventeen hundred bod
les into the marshy moats encircling
the trenches.
AT Otch Getchen. a body of three
thousand Macedonian farm hands who
were entering the city were surround.
ed ana massaCrcd, within full view OF
the authorities
Daily from all sections of the Villa
yet come the terrible stories of butch
cry and pillage. 1t staggers me, and
my blood runs cold when / think of
children whose little heads have been
half-severed from their infant bodies
women with their heads severed being
carried away by carloads, together
with the mutilated bodies of men of all
ages. Merciiui God, pity the outcast,"