More Of Bulgars' Massacres.

New York Times 100 years ago today, August 11, 1913:
Letter Tells of Terrified Greeks and Slaughter of 2,000 Villagers.
    Partial confirmation of the stories of atrocities committed by the retiring Bulgarian forces upon the Greek inhabitants of Macedonian towns is contained in a private letter just received in New York from an American employee of the American Tobacco Company, stationed at Kavala, European Turkey. Under date of July 27, he writes:
    "You have no doubt seen in the papers that the Greeks have taken Kavala, and that their fleet was here in the harbor. The few days prior to the evacuation of the town by the Bulgars and the arrival of the Greek fleet were about the most thrilling that I ever spent. When it was reported on June 30 that war had commenced, the Bulgars arrested about thirty of the most prominent Greeks in town, and removed them to a farm just over the mountains from Kavala. They were to be killed if there was the least sign of an uprising among the Greek population.
    "From this time on Comitadji swarmed into town. These men have to be seen to be appreciated. They are nothing less than brigands, and their arrival in a town is usually the signal for a little fancy killing. When they began to come in, the Greeks were of course panic-striken, and became more excited every day until Monday, the 7th, when they lost their heads completely. On the morning of that day we had a number come in with the news that the Bulgars were quitting the town that night, and would burn the place and massacre everybody before they left. We didn't put much faith in this report until the afternoon, when more arrests of prominent Greeks were made. One of the American Tobacco Company's men was among the number that they tried to get, but he hid in the Italian consulate. On our arrival home that afternoon we found his whole family, consisting of his wife, sister-in-law, a 3-year-oid girl, a month-old baby, and a nurse, all of them yelling murder as only these people can.
    "By this time the town looked as if it were deserted, all gates being barred, as well as windows and doors. You can take it from me that there was mighty little sleep in town for the people that night, but after all the excitement nothing really happened. The excitement kept up all the next day, though, and at 7 o'clock in the evening the Bulgars marched out. A boat was sent to Thasos that night to notify the Greek fleet, and on the following morning four Greek boats steamed into the harbor. There really wasn't as much enthusiasm as one would have expected, for everybody had a feeling that the Bulgars had a card up their sleeves; but so far nothing has happened.
    "The Bulgars in their, flight have done some awful things in the nearby villages, though. Seres was completely destroyed, we having lost about half a million dollars, and our men there having had to walk all the way to Salonika to escape with their lives.
    "Another American, an Englishman and I rode out to Doxat, a village about twenty miles from here, to see the ruins yesterday, and I hope I will never see such a sight again. Doxat was a Greek town with a population of 10,000, and when we got there yesterday we didn't find a house standing. About 2,000 men, women and children had been butchered, some of the children being impaled on the pickets of iron fences. This happened about five days ago, and a few of the people had ventured back from the mountains, and it was a pitiful sight to see them, I was riding down one of the streets and had to guide my horse around a man who was standing in the middle of the road with a blank look on his face and who didn't even see me. Women were sitting around among the ruins — some crying, others just talking to themselves as if their minds were gone. Nearly all the villages have been treated in the same way, and the country is absolutely desolate.
    "I haven't begun to tell you of the awful things that have happened and that I have seen, but they would certainly fill a book. I don't think you people so far away realise how bad it is, otherwise there would have been a warship here long ago. We are out of communication either by telegraph or post with the outside world, so we can't notify our consul at Salonika. I don't know when this will get away, but thought I would write you while I had the time, business of course being at a standstill."