The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1855-11-05
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Correspondence of the London TiInes.I'
HORRORS OF THE HOSPITAL AT sEvAsTe.

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Correspondence of the London TiInes.I
HORRORS OF THE HOSPITAL AT sEVASTG
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Of all the pictures of the horrors of war, {
which have ever been presented to the world,
the hospital of Sevastopol presents the most
horrible, heartrending and revolving 1t can
rot be described, and the imagination of
Fuseli could not conceive eny thing at all like
untoit How the human body can be mutated
and yet hold its soul within, when every limb
is shattered, and every vein and artery is pour
ing out the Hfe-stream, one might study here
at. every step, and at the same time wonder E
how little will kill! The building used as an
hospital is one of the noble piles inside the I
dock yard WALL and is situate in the center OF
the row, at right angles to the line of the Re-
dan. The whole row was peculiarly exposed to
the action of shot and shell, bounding over the /
Redan and to the missiles directed at the Bar 7
rack Battery, and it bears in sides, roofs win |
ldows, and doors, frequent and destructive |
lproofs of the severity of the cannonade. Enter
ling one of these doors beheld such sight as
few men, thank God, have ever witnessed!
In long, low room supported by square pill
lars, arched at the top, and dimly lighted
through shattered and unglazed window frames,
lay the wounded Russians, who had been aban-
l3oned to our mercies by their General
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dead, the rotten and fostering corpses of the
soldiers who were left to die in their extreme
lagony, untended, uncared for, packed as close
las they could be slowed, some on the foor and
Iothers on wretcfied trestles and bedsteads or
lpallets of straw, scpped and saturated with
lbIood. which oozed and trickled through upon
the floor mingled with the droppings ofcorrup-
: ltion. With the roar of exploding fortresses
j lin their ears; with shells and shot forcing
Through the roof and sides of the rooms in
which they lay, with the cracking and kissing
+ Iof fire around them, those poor fellows, who
had served their loving friend and master the
Gar, but too well, consigned to their terrible
flfate. Many might have been saved by ordina-
~ care. Many lay yet alive, with maggots
. crawlng about III their wounds. Many nearly
. lmad by the scenes around them, or seeking
Ito escape from it in their EXTREMIST agony, had
u rolled array under the bed, and glared out on
: the heart-stricken spectators, OH with such
looks Men with legs and arms broken and
twisted, the Jagged splinters sticking through
the raw flesh; implored aid, water, food, or pity
depriyed of speech by the approach of death
ID or by dreadful injuries on the head or trunk,
pointed 10 the lethal spot. Many seemed bent
. alone on making their peace with heaven.
The attitudes of some were so hideously fan
Itastic, as to appal and root one to the ground
|. by sort of dreadful fascination. Could that
s. ibioody mass of clothing and white bones ever
= have been human being or that burnt black
! mass of flesh have ever had human soul? Il
n was fearful to think what the answer mus'
as be.
The bodies of numbers of men were swolleI
and bloated to ancredible degree and the fea
II lures distended to a gigantic size; with eye:
ms ms protruding from sockets, and the blackenec
p tongue rolling out of the mouth, compressed
oy tightly by the teeth which had set upon it il
the death rattle, made one shudder and rec
= round
In the midst of these chamber of horrors
for there many of them, were found some deae
and some living English soldiers, and among
them poor Capt. VAUGHN, OF goth, who ha
since succumbed to his wounds. | confess i
RS was impossible for me to stand at the sight
:, :, (which Mortified our most experienced surgeons
,ass the deadly clammy stencil, the smell of tn
he gangrened wounds ofcorrupt blood, of rottel
: flesh; were intolerable and odious beyond en-
ldurance. But what must the wounded hav
VI felt who were obliged to endure all this; ant
who passed away without hand to give then
a cup of water, or voice to say kindly wor'
to them.
Most of these men were wounded on Satur
To- day-many perhaps, on the Friday beior
indeed, it is impossible to say how long the,
ity might have been there. In the hurry OF thel
retreat, the Muscoyites seem to have carrle
n in dead men to get them out of the way, an
OK to have put them upon the pallets in horrl
mockery. So that their retreat was secured
the enemy cared but little for their wounded
On Monday only, did they receive those whor
we sent out to them during brief armistlc
: for the purpose, which was, believe sough
,b. by ourselves, as our oyercrowded hospitai
an could not contain ana our over WOfheu soi
ern - = - ,t4or,d 70 arv more
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