Show MURDERED BY TURKS VILLAGE inhabitants BY SOLDIERS three hundred house houses burned and persons mostly women and children murdered horrible details are arriving at mo me european turkey ot of the slaughter of the inhabitants ot of the village of dash south of late lake may 21 by bashi it appears that on the arrival of the bashi bazoukas Chaka laroff a band of insurgents withdrew to the mountains without sustaining any loss As no rebels were left in the village the in habitants experienced no anxiety until ard suddenly lenly at sunset the turks who had completely surrounded the place comme commenced ced a regular bombardment whereupon all the villagers assembled Is in though the artillery ceased firing during part of the night the turkish infantry fired all night long the ar tillery bombardment was recommenced R at da daybreak Y break but as it was ineffective ftfe turks set fire to the village on all sides and commenced a general mas sacre slaughtering women childr children er and the aged about houses were burned and upward of persons mostly women and children were killed the women and girls were murd murdered eyed while res whole household households 0 family of seven w bodies were heaped a living soul was the survivors ma arned burned or othera some of the fleeing aured and had their off before they thay were the report adds were in the clothing one band ing of forty women caught by soldiers were killed after hoa listing outrage were slain one as slain and their on the hearth not eft left in the village ly of them halt half rise injured fled villagers were cap ears and noses cut i butch butchered ereA that 1400 villagers ns without food or of these consist and children were in a ravine and treatment |