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Show DROWN 50 SERBS IN CHURCH WELL Frightful Tale of Bulgarian Ferocity Fe-rocity Comes to Light From Serbia. MANY TORTURED AND KILLED Citizens of Leskovatz Are Bound Hand and Foot and Cast to Their Death Valuable Machinery is Damaged. Leskovatz, Serbia. In Leskovatz there is a church. Under the church a well. In the well the bodies of fifty citl-sens citl-sens of Leskovatz were found Irowned. Their arms and legs had been tjed ind they had been thrown into the ;vater by the Bulgarians when they swept over Serbia, a citizen of the :own of Leskovatz told me. He also said that a good many of :he leading citizens of Leskovatz, priests, school teachers and such, had jeen ' deported as those left-behind inderstood into Bulgaria. But that just lately they had been finding in the foothills of the mountains over which tlie road went, graves in which thirty, forty and fifty of these citizens had been buried, after having been tortured tor-tured and killed. .-' Large Factory There. In Leskovatz before the war stood one of the few large factories in Serbia. Ser-bia. It had been making woolen cloth for array uniforms and aiso linen cloth. The buildings had been filled with expensive machinery Imported from Austria and Germany. When the Bulgarians came they put up the machinery at auction to enterprising enter-prising citizens of Bulgaria, nnd many of the machines carry tags or are chalk-marked with the names of the successful bidders. They had not been able to transport all the machines before the Serbians came back, though a great many had been moved, but all those which could not be removed hud been cleverly damaged, dam-aged, almost beyond possibility of repair. re-pair. All the engines, all the various machines ma-chines for the manifold operations required re-quired in the manufacture of cloths had been damaged at some vital spot. All the leather belts and even the leather attached to rollers had been cut away. The boilers had been made useless. It is an open question whether the machines can be repaired, and if repair re-pair were possible, as to whether it would not cost more than to take a fresh start. The owner, one of the few capitalists capital-ists of Serbia, seemed to take an almost al-most melancholy satisfaction in having hav-ing us see how his life work had been destroyed. He seemed too old, too broken and too discouraged to take a fresh start. |