The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-12-28
M0SLEMS SLAY $4,000
KILL CHRISTIAN WOMEN AND
CHILDREN AT ADRiANOPlE.
CrAzed Inhabitants Took Refuoe in
Churches, Where They Were
Pursued and Sacrificed.
Westerh \ " sparer In!on News serylce.

Boston, Mass.-Frightful details OF
The butchery of 10000 persons in the
besieged 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 il translation of letter
sent by Nazariene Daan Kanibelle, an
officer in the Adrianople Turkish
army, to ]. j. Bosden, 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
over 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 swurg wide open. At the bar
racks at the Schiller MahalleIsy
heard the commanding officer give or
ders to kill all Christians.
AT last tlat terrible Friday night
came. II was dusk. AS stood at the
window at the konah of kendel Bey,
I saw several Imams (Mohammedan
priests) on the minaret. | was star
tied by the sharp rattle of drum.
yv1, nh h.t L., ,e
first watch before midnight. A few
minutes had elapsed when the tower
became filled with men moving ex-
citedly.
Z "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 We're crowded with men, wom-
en- and children, their hands filled
with hastily-snatched valuables, all
heading toward different churches. to
find refuge. Half-naked people began
to run through the streets spreading
the terrible news of the arrival of the
Moslem Albanian plunderers.
Women, pressing their babes to
their breasts, rushed to the windows
that overhung the streets, already in
undated with human blood.
"At the Tepah, near the well ct the
Greek bishops house, | met crowd
OF fifty girls who, frenzied with fear.
turned and fled. In an instant they
we're surrounded by furious Moalems
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
a 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 I 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 OF 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 and massacred, within full view of
the authorities.
Daily from all sections of the Via
yet come the terrible stories of butch
cry and pillage. 1t staggeTs 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 cart-loads, together
with the mutilated bodies of men of all
ages. Merciful God, pity the outcast!"