The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1859-11-24
Tae Tremendous Murder and Mangling at
NO.!crino.

Three days after the battle of Solferi-
10 the Emperor Napoleon stated the loss
Of the French army at $4,000 men and
his Italian allies at 5000 total Allies
loss 81 900 Considering that the battle
lasted sixteen hours, aud was fought over
front Of more than ten miles, this mum
Der Of casualties has always seemed in-
credib!y small. The Austriaus place their
loss at $4,000 Intelligent correspond.
cnts have stated their belief that the al
lied loss reached 40, 600, at least, and that
OF the .ius,rians $4,000, aud that the
number OF men engaged on each side was
fully 200, 900. We have now what looks
like a confirmation of these estimates.
The Paris correspondent Of the n. Y.
Times -Malakoh-w was spectator
of the battle of Solttrino, writing on the
18th, says:
I have just met in an italian medical
journal an Official statement from one Of
the principal surgeons Of Brescia, DR..
Bartoiomed Guall,, which slows instead
of the II 900 as the Allied loss at Sol
ferino, in killed aud wounded, it ought to
be abou. - 900. DR.. Guala gives the
following statistics;
After the battle of Solferino thirty
sesen hospitals were opened at Brescia.
The number of the Freach wounded who
entered these hospitals was II, $40; of
Italians, 1880 Of Austrians ,Gl2 -
Total wounded in the hospitals Of Bres
cia, 3S,0l6. This is for Brcscia ouly.--
u, a IL, l.,,t t,r
ters who were mortaly wounded died at
the towns of Cas,iglioue, Lonato, Desen-
zano, Montechiaro, and other places be-
tween the battlefield aud Brcscia, and that
very many Of those treated in these viii
lages and entered there into state of
convalcscencc there, never entered the
Brescia hosditals ut all, the total Of casu-
! alties ought to be increased on the statis-
tics of DR.. Gualla some five or six thous-
and for the lIied armies; and thus We
! arrive at a total Of losses Of about 1 5 900
It is true, that by the fifth Of July the
hospitals of Castislioue were evacuated !;
but those Of Desenzano had wounded
men as late AS the 10Th of July, while At
the city Gf Bergamo, further away from
the battle Gcld than Brescia there were
/ l,1cO wounded men.
| OF the 50, ,9l6 wounded received in the
/ hospitals OF Brescia, .237 according to
/ DIR Gualla.) died, 26,02S were discharg-
ed cured and the balance 10 ,65l, are eth
er in a state of convalcscnce, or have
wounds which have degenerated into
chronic sores and have been sent to their
families or to the military hospitals OF
Paris.
Now, since the French Government
( has thus far concealed from the public
the facts in regard to the losses at the
battle Of So'erino, | proposs to fix here
finally and irrevocably an approximate
figure o. thoS, losses. based upon the
statistics of Dr. Gualla and upon my own
observations the day Of the battle aud lol
fort night succeeding that event. O.
the French wounded that entered the
hospitals of Brescia, 1875; wounded
tha, convalesced or died in other towns
and villages $500; died on the Geld o
battle, 5000; total, q, ,s45 or say % 600
OF the piedmontesc wounded that enter
ed the hospital Of Brescia. 1880
wounded that convalesced or died 10 9th
er towns and villages, 1000; dead on th'
field Of battle, 1000; total, l9,959, ol
say 10000. Grand total of losses for th
Allied army, is killed and wounded
$4,000.
The nun Der Of dead bodies found O,
the field of battle has never been state,
officially in any report yet published
The approximate figures assumed above
will not be considered to, high in proper
tion to the humber of wounded men
low igure-since the battle, and thus "
have total of deaths from the battle 0
Soiferino, in the ranks of the allied arm
Of l4,Q00 men.
Of the causualtics in the Austrian az
my We know nothing upon which We Cal
place reliance We learn from traveller
that Their hospitals were crowded wit
wounded, snd we know that, sll thing