King Describes More Outrages.

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 19, 1913:
Greek Ruler Sends The Times New Details of Bulgar Pillage and Massacre.
100 WOMEN BURNED ALIVE
Documentary Evidence That the Killings Were Deliberately Planned.
20,000 ARE LEFT HOMELESS
Retreating Army Made Victims of Jews and Creek Christians Alike.
KING FERDINAND FLEEING?
Queen of Bulgaria Appeals to Queen of Rumania — New Cabinet Formed.
 
On receipt of the graphic narrative, published yesterday, in which King Constantine of Greece accused the Bulgarian Army of many crimes of savagery, The Times invited the King to supplement that dispatch with any further details he might obtain. The following response was received last night:
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    SALONIKA, July 18.— The Parliamentary committee assigned to visit the places where ferocious atrocities have been committed by the Bulgarian Army reports from Seres that the city has been completely ruined by fire. Seventeen notables shut up in one room were pierced in the head by bayonets and thrown into a pit half alive and covered with earth.
    The committee found the bodies of 100 women who had been burned alive. The method used was indescribable. The Bulgars poured petroleum over them and set them on fire. One woman's body was found with the feet cut off and a rope around the neck. Girls who resisted the men attacking them were mutilated. Fifty-two were butchered in the open air. The victims numbered 200; the rest of the population escaped when the city was bombarded, and it was known that the Greek Army was close at hand and advancing rapidly. In their exit from the city they were defended by Greek and Turkish town guards.
    There is documentary evidence to show that the slaughter was deliberately planned.
    Twenty thousand people at Seres are homeless. Four thousand and fifty houses and 1,000 stores were burned, and merchandise worth $1,200,000 was stolen or destroyed. The number of Jewish houses burned was 2,324. All the schools and synagogues were destroyed, as well as 18 Greek churches.
    The Austrian Consul reports that his wife was dishonored by the soldiers in the open and in the presence of all.
    At the last occupation of Guevgueli by the Bulgars all the inhabitants who were unable to flee perished during three terrible days of martyrdom. Houses and stores were pillaged and nine prominent members of the community were killed. The Archbishop was made captive, but saved himself by a miracle. Two churches and the school were occupied, and the priests were forbidden to celebrate the mass in Greek.
    At Stoyakovo the priest was killed and a number of other prominent persons were carried off. Their fate is not known.
    At Bogdantsa seven were killed and seventeen were carried, first to Doiran and then to Seres, without leaving a trace.
    At Anegortsi six were killed and the fate of others is not known. At least five were killed at Zehovo and eight, among them a woman, at Paliortza.
    In a Catholic convent were found seven Comitadjis, (Irregulars,) several soldiers, and an officer with many stolen objects. Investigation made at Guevgueli in the Catholic school and church brought to light many objects belonging to the members of thirteen Comitadji bands. These convents belong to Bulgarian Catholic orders.