Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1877 — Horrors of War—A Turkish Report. [ARTICLE]

Horrors of War—A Turkish Report.

The Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs informs his diplomatic agents abroad that the Russians on entering Eski-Saghra disarmed the Mussulmans, employed mokhtars to fetch the Mussulmans out of their houses, and they were massacred. Eleven hundred were thus put to death. When the Russians entered Lovatz fifteen woman and children, fleeing from the invaders, were killed. Others, to escape outrage or death, had to abandon everything, even their children. Every’ Mussulmin house in Lovatz was pillaged. After the recapture of the town, the Russians carried devastation and carnage into the neighboring districts. The Russians drove out all the Mussulman inhabitants of the vilage of Herste, and burned all the men and some of the women. Only one woman escaped. Seventy Mussulmans and the Imaum of Yuklem were shut up in a barn, which was fired. Forty-four other Mussulmans were massacred. and all the Mussulman women outraged. Eight young girls who resisted were killed, and two burned with the mon. The greater part of the other women, with their children, were taken outside the village, where, one after another, with their children at their sides, they were slaughtered. Twenty women and children who escaped massacre were rescued by Ottoman troops. The English militaryattache himself witnessed all these horrors. The Kus sians disarmed the Mussulmans of EskiSaghra, Kezanlik, and the neighboring villages, and distributed the arms among the Bulgarians, who drove down 400 Mussulmans to the river Tundja, and massacred them. At Eski-Saghra and its neighborhood the Bulgarians continue the massacre of Mussulman population. Atrocities committed by Cossacks and Bulgarians continue. Women and children who had sought refuge in Khidirkeni were massacred. Otherfamilies shut up in a granary were delivered by our troops. Among them several women and children were wounded. The Bulgarians put to fire and the sword the. Mussulman village of Sofedji and several others, after having earned ofi women and girls, whom they outraged, killed, and mutilated horribly. One woman and her two sons were the only persons saved.