Year: 1876

two battaons he get only twenty men to respond
his call Tho rest fy Still some regiments and the
whole the artillery do their duty and for moro tnan
two hours the legous OF throe pachas make good an
advance Of only half mile but that has been an nd
vance all along the line. Abdul Kerm Pacha has got
his e well up Greditin, north OF tho burning Ac
rowax and his right well round 10 Bella though It is
only four o'clock.


TERRIBLE CARNAGE.


The carnage 10 terrible on both Sides descend for
q short time from the height where for hours have
been watching the battle, aud the main street OF
Acx,natz crowded with wounded. There is not much
change until O'clock though the din of battle
has gone on without n moments cessation.
II Is clear that the left of the Turks have
passed the town and its redoubts and far as
Trausan and Bagar. though yet the side
Of the that which those villages stand. To
the south they possession OF the positions which
the right of TchernayeGs army occupied this morning
The Servians lighting fires oil up tho hill
The Turkish positions right before already blaze
with similar Ares. Mangcd wounded are coming In on
s,rc,cheis Is there a truce?


A STUBBORN YIaHr.


Are both sides fairly exhaustedf They have now
been lighting and advancing and retrcating for ten
hours Have they both given up from sheer exhaus-
ton' No. The whole town Is rocking and tho heights
shaking with the thunder OF the Turkish artillery. We
stop to raise glasses and see half mile from
where we are standing, sight Of which not soul in
the Is aware A, the distance have just stated
there rises lightly wooded elevation. 1t is illumi-
mated the and the foot with lines OF inter-
mit,ent flames II shoots forth along the whole line
for instant then suddenly extnguished and as sud
denly starts forth again. What s this sight2


sERvrAN GALIANrRy.


Coming from 1t is the rapid detonaton Of rifles from
above and rifles from below We fix our glasses, and.
as distinctly as We see another, see tho Turks
ON the brow of that hill and feet down the
discharging pungng fire into the Servan troops bo-
meath Full justice ought TO be rendered TO the men
who for instant stood their ground boneath and
turned such fire They are rapidly moved down.
We watch tor fully ten minutes, and each minutes
illumination below paes before that above and, each
instant tho Servian fro becoming weaker, wo know
that there Is nothing behind that rapidly decreasing
line.


DANGER WOMEN CHILDREN.


We know that In the street at the end of which
are standing there only hundreds unarmed men,
that thero Is nothing prevent tho Turks
being. through this street from end to
end within another twenty minutes. Evidently there
is not moment to be lost. We proceed to tho other
end of the street. and fearing to be tho of any
panic order dinner at the hotel while having
our horses harnesssd. Tho hotel was empty when VIC
entered it, but in five minutes 1t is filled with mis-
celluneous company of soldiers and camp followers


THE ALARM SPREADS


The alarm has come, but, curious to say not from
the side at which there the most mm nent danger
Nobody outside own party seems to know that at
the southern end Of the town, and almost within
stones throw of the street, the Turks are where
we saw them. but every does know that the
Servans have been sepally defeated all along tho line
and the alarm been created by ncws that the
Turks have been completely successful in getting into
tho northwest Of Aexinatz, where between them and
the road to Deigrad there only the fordablo Morava


GALLANT SURGEON


It's quarter 70 eight O'Clock when horseman gal
lops into tho yard of the hotel 1t Is MacKenr OF St
Thomas Hospital He just about to perform an
amputation tho field when stan officer dashed up
to him and told him the surgeons had not n second
lose in having the wounded carried or and saving
themselves The Turks were coming down 10 occupy
the banks Of tho Morava, and there every proba
bily that dark It was they would that even
ing cross the river and cut off tho road to Deigrad
NacKellar sent the young fellows on toward Degrad
fast their own logs and any ponies they might
seize the could carry them, and rode In tell
ought to got of instantly. We left the town at
half past eight fearing stampede We thought to bo
In advance the rush, but the delay OF quarter of
hour while waiting for news from tho field
hospitals brought US into the very thick Of it


HAsry FLIGHT.


fortunately for US the Servan and Roumanian
drivers wagons submissivoly obedlent to
the dismal sounds of the post drivers horn and this
obedience they old altogether lay in the
panic Of Friday night To ighton much possible
the load Mack Kear's horse unstrappod and threw
away the saddlebags containing troopers kit and
muniton; but in such universal confusion it i'm
possible not to come least partial grief and wo
may congratulate ourselves that nothing hap.
pencd to US than to have upset


TERRIBLE CONFUSION


For ten miles outside Alcxinatz, on the road to DELI
grad, there almost compact moving mass of
carriages wagons oxen, horses and pedestrians, all
going at full gallon, running into ono another
every other Instant When tho high road became too
crammcd resort was had to tho fields, and through
these oxen dragged their wagons. or was the case
IN many instances, only wooden yokcs, the wagons
having been left behind lest they might impede tho
moro valuable beasts in their fight Artillery firing
was still brisk when left Acxinatz, but ceased
about half an hour afterward before we were half way
TO Degrad


sAPA pELIGRAp.


We reached Deligrad about ten o'clock and remained
until after midnight There found the entire party
OF surgeons and learned that all the civil population
had left Alexinaz The Russian lady all tho
wounded in ambulances had also got out We posted
all night and all day till reached Scmcndra
Saturday evening. I arrived at Belgrade on Sunday
and transmitted from semn my Of the battle


rcuExSAYErv's RETREAT.


Tcncrnayon is IN Deligrad.


sERvrAN OFFICIAL ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLE.


BELGRADE, Sept. 4, 1870
Ofncla dispatches say the entire Turkish army at
tackled the scrvian right wing on Friday The battle
lasted until nine O'Clock at night The Servans man
tanned their positions but the Turks being three times
more the Scrvians, finally rctrcated within
their fortified positions at Aicxinatz