, 1870-09-24
Wnf Scenes.

i correspondent Of the London Times,
writing from F1orenr;!ta On September 1
sa.s: I'VE heard dreadful accounts OF the
horrors ktill to be Seen in the villages and
fields where the reeent engagement t'censred.
\ lady and gentleman wearing the Geuava
cross told Is they hal Yesterday ri-st Il vii
iaSe about kixteen miles from this-I should
tay the 1emairs Of avr!age, for it had Lten
burned. The seen" there they described "a
l~ing beycrd III description horrible. 1t ap-
pears that tho I'casantt: inhAbiting it
lad fred upon and wounded and killed several
OF the German su1geors while IN the
act Ct attending TO wounded soldiers, aud, u
! reptlsAt And measure Of Warning for the fu-
tute. the !i1age had been burned. The work
hfd BET n done 20 suddenly. quickly. snd ef-
fectualy, TINT the women and children had
teen unable to eecape, And their bodies,
cba17ed AID blacxepe1, many OF them still
burning. ls7 about the village street, ming ed
With the heaps Of Freseh and Prussiaa roll
diers WHO had fallen in cna Of the mast deg
perate encounters Of tho way. You h.l bet-
ter not 80 to zee II, !" eaid the ladv. 'trou III
LIFE
4 correspondent Of tho london Thurs
wntes from F1orenEil!e, September i: ''The
appearance OF the town 0onzy-1 hasn caIlca
i ,ndi1erently town and village, fos, thou:h
It lad OILY population OF littla oves S.0C3.
the stamp and Substantially OF many OF the
houses. as far II one coad judge. were more
that Of to~n tban Of village; ths antear-
anee OF tie place cannot better aess.soe
than by sasing that it looked 81 il oae greas
thundeftolt had fallen upon. and, in oSe mo-
mtut, DESTROYED it utterly. The human boales
had fsv this time been removed from the aaeet;
| but the char1ed remains OF helme1@ anu
| shakos. and the stocks Of rifles, with every
| bere and there swords and bay oneta, ana every
sort Of wtapon. showed that "h,ie koe sioes na,n
were raging ali around them ana III neipssss
I women and children were ate!Hns raaty nss
roasted alye in the honses ano ~ tns f.om
The maddeued combatants did not eesss 1iom
.te h..tfa INT died. no Doubt, in Numbers,
ienmeI IN bv the flames while they we're
fr1.t;7r. It Il almost impossible TO fea!ze
| tEs+ snrh things can have ccu7ed N tths age
- r;r;I;zat;on. and that humanity and civl'za-
Inn and Christianity should be dlsgraced ~
f,orors that seem the very outcome or hell
| f. Il like m syi1 dream7 but It IL to be
] hnnef these terrible egenta will leave the
valid wiser fer the future.
| The comp1eteness and suddcnuess ofthe de-
strrction we're evidenced by numberlsas little
| frirrurnstanees-sucha a. the burnt remains OF
! birds and animals one would have expected Of
al others to escape-dogs and pigeons, anl
even csts in large numbers
Hundreds Of the people betook themselves
10 the CELLAR, it is said, and there perished o1
suHocation. Nowhere could there have ap
peared an atyium for the miserable people
Iaslng flames aud suf1ocating smoke i:isid
theiz houses, ard outside falling wills ans
roofs, and nen lie fends incsrn2te dgatinI
nnid the flames and the blazing wreck.
! walked about through the dEeaFy street,
Hete and there Nretched old men and wome
we're banging about tho ruins Of their- home