The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-10-13
HORRIBLE SCENES WITHIN SEBAsTOPoL.

From the sebastopol correspondence Of the London
Times
"Of all the pictures Of the horrors OF which have
been presented to world the hospital of Sebastopo pre-
sens the most horrible hearrending and revolving It
cannot be described, and the Imagination of Fuseli
could not conceive anything at all like unto it, How the
poor human body be mutated and yet hold its soul
Within when every limb is shattered and every vein and
artery is pouring the life stream might study here
every step and at the time wonder what little will
kill The building used hospital is of the noble
piles inside the docyard wall and situated in the CEN
tire of the row. right angles to the line of the Redan.
THE whole peculiarly exposed TO the action OF
sho. and shell bounding the Redan and to the ms
ses directed the Barrac Battery and it bears in sides
roofs windows and DOORS frequent and destructive proofs
Of the severity Of the cannonade Entering OF these
doors beheld such sight few men, thank Cod have
witnessed In long low room, supported By square
pillars arcbcd at the top and dmy lighted through shat
tered and unglazed windowames lay the wounded Rus
SLAMS who had been abandoned TO our mercies by their
general The wounded did say? No but the dead, the
rotten and fostering corpses of the soldiers who left
die in their extreme agony intended uncared for pack
cd close they be slowed, the floor Others
wreched trestle and bed5eads, pallets Of straw
opped and saturated with blood which oozed and ckled
through upon the floor mingled with the droppngs OF cor
ruption.
with the roar OF exploding ortresses in their ears with
shell and shot forcing through the roof and sides Of the
in which they lay with the cracking and Kissing OF
fire around them these poor fellows who had served their
loving friend and the Car but too well,
signed terrible fate Many might have been saved
by ordinary Many lay, yet alive with maggos
crawling about their wounds Many, nearly mad by the
scene around them seeking escape from it in their
emest agony had rolled away under the beds and glaod
the heart-slrcken specatorsoh with such looks
Many with legs and broken and twisted the jagged
splnters sticking through the flesh, mpored aid,
water food pity, deprived ospeeeh by the approach
of DEATH by dreadful injuries the head and trunk
pointed to the lethal spot
MANY seemed bent alone making their peace with
Heaven. The attitudes OF so hideousy tanias-
tic appal and root to the ground by sort of
dreadful fascination. Could that bloody mass of clothing
h,,a hnVa ham hrrnan fains at
burnt black of flesh have been q human soul
1t fearful TO think what the answer must be. The
bodies Of numbers of men swollen and bloated to
incredible degree and the features ds,ended TO gigantic
size with prorudng from the sockets and the black
cned tongue oling of the mouth compressed tightly
by the teeth which bad set upon it in the death rattle
made one shudder and reel round.
In the midst of Of these chambers of borrorsfor
there many Of tcmwere found some dead and some
living English soldiers, and among them poor Captain
Vaughan Of the 90th who has since succumbed TO his
wounds confess it impossible for to stand the
sight, which Mortified experienced surgeonsthe
deadly, canmy STENCIL the smell OF gangrened wounds OF
corrupted blood of rotten esh inoleablo and obi
beyond endurance But what must the wounded have
felt who Obliged to endure all this, and who passed
away without hand to give them cup OF water, or a
voice to say one kindly word TO theml
Most OF these wounded Saturday-many
perhaps the Friday before indeed il is impossible TO
say how long they might have been there In the hurry
their retreat the Muscoves TO have carried in dead
men 10 get them of the way, and have put them
upon pallets in horrd mockery So that this retreat
secured the enemy cared but little for the wounded On
Monday only did they receive those whom sent out to
them during brief arnisce for the purpose which
was believe, sought by ourselves, overcrowded
hospitals could not contain aud our overworked surgeons
could not attend to- any more
u1he Great Rplan WINS next visited. Such scene
Of wreck and run An the houses behind It q mass
Of broken stones-a clock turret with shot right
through the clock-a pagoda in rnins--another Clock
tower with all the clocks destroyed the dial with
the words Barwse London observation-disclosures where
human blood was running among The utensils in one