Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-07-19

men fell, and the gray horse Of a Prus-
sian field officer, with a ball in his heart
fell heavily against the wall, kicking
amid the ranks, but he was soon quoted
forever, and at that moment men regard
ed but little such wounds as could be in
flicted bv an iron-shod hoof, even IN he
sgonies of death. The Austrians stood
calamity, and made an attempt to set hre
to the bridge, but the difference OF their
armament again told upon them here, md
it is said that, CALLED by their hard for
tune, they charged with the bayonet, but
That the Prussians also took kindlyto the
steel, and this charge caused no change
in the fortune of the fight. Certain it is
that the defenders wereultimately obliged
to retire across the bridge.
While this combet was proceeding
slowly along the street, another fight was
carried on upon the railway almost with
an equal progress, and with an almost
similar result. A party of the Austrians
fell back from the point where shots were
first exchanged, and where the railway
crosses the road along the line. They
we're pushed by some Prussian detach-
ments, but neither side WAS here. in strong
force, and the principal fighting was done
upon the road; but here, too, the needle
gun showed its advantage over the old
fashioned weapons of the Austaians, for
the latter fell in the proportion of six to
one Prussian. The railway bridge was
not broken, but the lines were torn by the
retiring troops, and tie line is not now
passable BY trains. The Prussians
pushed over both bridges after the retreat
ing Austrians; the latter threw a strong
detachment into a large unfinished house,
which stands by the chauSsee about a quar-
ter of a mile beyond the bridge, and again
made a stand, but not of long duration I;
they had lost many killed, wounded, and
prisoners many of their officers were
dead or taken but they stood until they
could gather in all the stragglers who had
escaped from the houses of the village,
and harassed by the pursuing Prussians,
drew of suddenly by the main road to
Munchengrstz. Thus terminated a con-
test, which, fought upon both sides with
the greatest vigor and determination, yet
resulted in a clear victory to the Prus-
slams.
In the village the utmost disorder gave
evidence of the severity of the contest.
Austrian knapsacks, shakos, clothes, and
arms were scattered about in wild eon-
fusion. Dead horses lay in the bitches by
the roadside. White coats and cloaks,
which had been thrown off in the hurry
of the fight, lay scattered along the road;
the trees which had formed the Austrian
barricade were still on the side of the
street, and held many a bullet. The cot
tages had been ransacked of their furni-
ture, and their beams and roof-trees had
been tern down to form defences for the
doors and windows; while along the
street and upon the banks of the river
lie objects which in the distance look like
bundles of untidy uniform, but which on
nearer approach are seen TO be the bodies
of slain soldiers. Sometimes they lie in
groups of twos or threes, twisted together
as if they had gripped n another in their
mortal agony, and sometimes single fig
ures lie on their backs, staring with lIvid
c~ountenanc0 and half-closed hazy eyes
straight up against the hot morning sun
The dark blue uniform with red facings of
Prussia and the white with light-blue of
Austria lie side by side, bat the numbers
of the latter much preponderate, and on
n part of the railway three Prussian
corpses opposite nineteen Austrian, form
a grisly trophy of the superiority of the
needle gun.