Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-12-24
10000 CHRISTIANS
KILLED BY MOSLEMS
IN BESIEGED CITY
Turks in AdrianopIe Massacre
Women, Girls and Babes in
AnmS-Bodies Carried Off in
Wagon Loads Like Animals
Especial Dispatch to The Journal.)

Especial Dispatch to The Journal)
BOSTON, Dec. 21.-Frightful details
of the butchery of 10000 persons in the
besieged city of Adrianople by Moslems
Immediately after the Balkan alliance
declared war against the Ottoman en-
pire were given today by the Boston
Globe in a translation of a letter sent
by Nazarien Daan Kanibelle, an officer
in the Adrianople Turkish army, to J.
]. Bosdan, president of the Alliance
universelle.
Ruthless, wanton slaughter of girls,
women and babes in arms are related in
the letter as published today in the
Globe. which in part follows:
Human speech cannot describe the
agony ones soul feels on 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.
KILL ALL CHRISTIANS"
"The gates of armories and barracks
were swung VIDE open. at the bar
racks at the Settler Mahallelsy I heard
the commanding officer give orders to
kill all Christians.
AT last that terrible Friday night
came. 1t was dusk. AS 1 stood at the
window at the Konah of Kendel Bey L
saw several Imans CMohammedan
priests) on the -Minaret. 1 was sudden
ly startled by the sharp rattle of
drum which betokened 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 Orthodox
church began tolling, followed by the
bells of the other Christian churches.
NAKED PEOPLE TREAD BLOODY
STREETS
Lights appeared everywhere, win
dows were thrown up, the streets were
crowded with men, women and children,
their hands filed with hastily snatched
valuables, all heading toward different
churches wherein to find refuge. Half
naked people began to run through the
the arrival of the Moslem Albanian
plunderers.
Women. pressing their babies to their
breasts, rushed to the windows that
overhung streets. already inundated with
human blood.
AT Tepah, near the well at the back
of the Greek bishops house, / met
crowd of some fifty girls who, fren-
zied with fear, turned and fed. In an
instant they were surrounded by furi-
GUS Moslems and butchered and the
heartrending shrieks of innocent chill
dren added to the already terrible
scene. All was chaos
HE'LL AT MIDNIGHT.
I'm half an hour the outlying city
was completely devastated.
Meantime the Moslems of Adrian
ople, reinforced by the outsiders took
up their hendish work. Toward mid
night the city was hell. The roars OF
a million tigers could not terrify one
as the lamentations and death shrieks
Of the unfortunate thousands. The
city was set on fire in many sections
and thousands were enveIoped in the
flames.
HAULED OFF BY WAGON LOADS.
I'm the morning the streets were
strewn with dead. On Saturday MORN
ing 1 counted sixty-four carts loaded
with the bodies of Christians piled in
like so many cattle carcasses. Thou
sands of them were cast in the river
and have been washed ashore, three
miles below.
THE soldiers of the fort district
have dumped 1,7O0 bodies into the
marshy meats encircling the trenches.
AT oteh Getchen, a body OF 5000
Macedonian farm hands who were en-
tering the city were surrounded and
massacred in full view of the author
tiles.
"Daily from all sections of the villa
yet came the terrible stories of butch
cry and pillage 1t staggered 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. Merciful Go, pity the out
cast"