Delete of 20k photos crashes iPad mini on ios8

Through some sort of iCloud issue 19,207 blank photos were generated and basically filled my ios devices.  I was finally able to get them out of the photostream, but they're now taking up ~20GB of space on my iPad mini retina in the recently deleted folder.   Any attempt to Delete All, times out and crashes the photos app.   I've searched and searched for some other way to delete these but am not finding anything.    I've tried closing all apps, leaving plugged in, and setting the screen to never lock to essentially minimize any competing resources, but it sti
Is this a backup/restore situation to remedy? 
The underlying problem seems to be how ios handles large deletes.   It seems like there would be a more efficient way to handle this like using a rename/drop approach on the DB instead of the delete when you use the Delete All command. 
Anyone else run into this or have a solution/suggestion?

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If you turn off photo stream it will only remove the photo stream album, it won't remove photos from your camera roll.

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