The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1869-05-07
THE H0RROUS GF BEING ssENSTANT-
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LII KILLED
Count Tolsboi's 'Sevastopol in May,n
in course of publication in "HotYs al
Home" gives very remarkable de-
scription of the death Of q man who is
instantly killed as the living say, Gin
stantly killed. dn-by piece OF she'll
which strikes him. But to him, the
dying man, his death seems differ
ent affair. This surely is extremely
powerful writing:
Michallof looked behind him. The
shining point of bomb seemed tostand
at the zenith in that position where
it is impossible to tell its direction.
But that lasted only minute; the
bomb came quicker and quicker, near
er and nearer, SO that you could see
| the sparks from the tube and hear the
fatal whistling, and directed its course
straight at the middle of the battalion.
"Lie down. cried voice.
MichaIloff and Praskukin lay down
on the ground Praskukin, tightly
closing his eyes, heard only how the
bomb fell heavily somewhere very
near on the hard ground. A second
passed-it seemed an hour-and the
bomb did not burst. Praskukin began
to be afraid that he had donea coward
ly act without any reason, that per-
haps the bomb had fallen far away,
and that he only thought he heard the
fuse fizzing. He opened his eyes and
saw with satisfaction that MichallOif
lay immoveable on the ground near
his legs. But his eyes at that moment
met the sparkling fuse of the whirling
bomb not yard from him. A hor-
rid-a cold horror excluding all other
! thoughts and feelings-took possession
! Of him. He covered his face with his
/ hands
Another second passed. second in
which q whole world of feelings,
/ thoughts, hopes, and recollections pass
/ ed through his mind.
"Whom will it kill; me or Michal
! loft? or both together? If it hits me
where will it hit ? in the head then, it's
all over ifit hits my leg, they will
cut it off, and / shall ask them to do
i it by all means by chIoroform-a and |
can still get through alive. But per-
haps it will only kill Michalloff-the
can tell how we were walking to-
gether, and he was killed and | was
spattered with blood. No; its nearer
/ to me, it willd1ill me!
Then he recollected the twelve
rouble that he owed Michalloff; he re-
collected also another debt at Peters
burg that he ought to have paid long
ago; Gypsy air that he had sung in
the evening came into his head. The
| girl whom he loved appeared to his
Imagination in cap with lilac rib
bons; he remembered a man whom he
had insulted years before and who had
never paid it back, although at the
same time with these and thousand
other remembrances the feeling of his
present circumstances-th expecta-
ton of death-never for a moment
quilted him. However, perhaps II
will not burst" he then, and with a
despairing decision wanted to open his
| eyes. But at that instant, through the
still shut lids ne saw red fire, and
with horrible noise something hit
him in the middle of the breast.
"Thank God! / am only bruised, ;"
was his first thought, and he wanted to
feel his breast, but his hands seemed
TO be bound down, and a weight TO
keep down his head. The soldiers
shone in his eyes, and he unconscious
ly counted them: zone, two, three
soldiers, and that one whose overcoat
has slipped down is an officer" he
thought. Then he saw flashes, and
he thought "what are they firing from,
mortars or cannon They are firing
again, and there are more soldiers;
FIVE, six, seven soldiers, and they all
90 past.n He had all at once became
afraid that they would leave him there.
He wanted to cry out that he was
wounded, but his mouth was so dry
that his tongue stuck to his palate and
horrible thirst tormented him. He
felt how wet he was about the breast.
''Really | fell into some blood when L
lay down. he thought and yielding
more and more to the fear that the sol
diers who were going past would leave
him there, he collected all his forces
and tried to cry out Take me along, "
but instead of that he groaned SO hor-
riblv that it was awful to hear his own
voice. Then some red fires danced in
his ewes, and it seemed TO him that the
soldiers were laying stones on him
the fires danced quicker and quicker,
the stones which they laid on him OPP
pressed him more and more. lie made
an effort to throw off the stones,
stretched out, and then neither saw
nor heard, nor thought nor felt. lie
was killed on the spot by a fragment OF
shell in the middle of his breast.
A ROMANCE OF THE CUBAN REBEL
LIoN.-An American citizen who
was in the Theatre of Viilanueva on
the evening of the 22d ult., and wit
messed the riot and massacre in the
streets of Havana that evening, says
that the origin of the outburst was the
shooting of young woman. Hesays
"a very beautiful girl, the daughter OF
Aldoma, one of the wealthiest and
. most noble of all Cubans, wore upon
her Ief1 breast the American flag with