Salt Lake Tribune | 1900-12-22 | Page 2 | Crucified on Trees

CRUFHEO ON TREES Fearful I Atrocities Committed on Christians I TURKS OUTDO THE BOXERS At Bituch Women Were Attacked and Mutilated Children Tortured to Death Before Parents Eyes Men Die Slowly by Having Their Limbs Cut Off Successively crs Sliced to Pieces Priests Tied in Sacks and Thrown In IMver 1100 Deople Are Massacred I Vienna Dec 21 Further reports of the Turkish massacres of Christians show that their instigator Is a Moham medan named Haiduk Islam who brags of having slaughtered 200 Christians Chris-tians with his own hand The Turkish Turk-ish authorities have shown utter Indifference In-difference to the massacres and the outrages pcrpclraled oil Christians are beyond description FEARFUL ATROCITIES At Bltuch men were crucified on trees with slakes driven through their hands and feet Women were attacked and then mutilated Children were I murdered by mutilation before theif parents eyes Women were maltreated maltreat-ed at Grumma before the eyes of their I husbands fathers and brothers and I then carried into tho bondage of harems har-ems CHILDREN DROWNED Men were put to death slowly by various means their limbs cut off successively suc-cessively and children were thrown Into I the river The fiends tortured the Christians at Rihurltz by slicing flesh from all parts of their bodies before killing them A Greek orthodox priest jwas tied in a sat k and pItched into tho river at GenovltSa The Servian Consul at Mllrovltzo estimates I es-timates that 1100 persons have been I killed and 100 women attacked and placed in harems