Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1870-09-22
EVENING STAR.
Afferfhe Rafile.

4 COZ. e~pOndent of the London Times, writing
e-ou fI,T,Tville on Sept .nber 4, says; We
ir[-F drasdfIl acc cunts of the horrors still
fo b. :, eu m the villages and fields where
re recent engagement occurred. A LAZY
erf gentleman wearing the Geneva cross
I0.d - they had Yesterday visited village
,b-at sixteen miles from this-I should say the
-lr--lus - s village, for il had been burned.
ale scene there they described a. being beyond
Il dt -IptiOn horrible. IL appears that the
r.a,4rlEv iuhabiting 10 had fTsd upon and
IgurdtI and killed several OF the German sar-
-ecr- willie in the act OF attending 10 wounded
,d.dsEr~ and as a reprisal and measure Of warn
81 fer She future the village had been burned.
TIE vCrA had been done 20 suddenly. quickly
zLd eGec;Ua.iy. that the women and chill IL IN
BAD been unable TO escape, and their bodies
s.-1I,d and blacsened. many of them still
tIru-rg. lay about the village street, mingled
W.th he heaps of French and Prussian soldiers
VIE Lad fallen in one OF the most deperate en-
counters Of he var. e. YOu hal better not 20
e. see Il. said the lady. " YOU viii never be
ale 20 forget il all the days % your life''
A correspondent OF The London TIa.ss writes
t,lU TloreT-i''e ScTt.4:
Tie appearance of the town OF DOUzv-I Ifsve
rs.Cd 10 jndiiisrsEtly town and vi age. Tor
t.ut gh IL had oRly a population of little over
$500, the stamp and substantially OF many OF
iia houses a. far as one could judge. were more
tai Cf q town than OF a village, the appearance
O. The place 1 cannot better describe than by
saving thai IL l,oked a. if one great thunderbO
had fallen upon and in one moment destroyed II
utterly. The human bodies had by this time
been removed from the street, but the charred
remains OF helmets and shakOs, and the stocks Vt
rifles, with every here and there swords and
UayonetS and every sort of weapon, showed tina
y bile the flames were raging all around them
and the helpless women anu children were lit
orally being rOl-ted alive in the houses and in
tac streets. the mahdened comba'ants did no
cease from the battle, but died no doubt in
numbers, hemmed in by the flames while they
were fighting. Ii Is almost imp 'ssible TO realize
that such things can have occurred in this are
of civilization, and that humanity and civiliZa-
ton aud Christianity should be diSgraced by
horrors that seem the very outcome of hell. 1t
> like evil dream; hut il is TO be hoped these
terrible events will leave the world wiser for
the future.
The completeness and suddenneSs of the de-
stfdction we're evinccd by numSeTless little cir
CGmStances-such as the burnt remains of birds
others to have escaped-dogs and pigeons, and
even cats in large numbers
Hundreds of the people betook themselves TO
thc cellars, 10 j. said. and there persisted Of su flo
cation. No where could there have appeared an
asylum for the miserable peOple-Taging flames
and sufocatng smoke inside their houses and
outside falling walls and roofs, and men like
hends ircarnate fighting amid the flames and
the blazing wrecks.
| walked about through the dreary streets.
Here and there wretched old men and women
were hanging about the ruins of their homes in
q sort Of StupOr apparently. Some of them were
weeping and sObbing. Il have lived sixty-six
years III this town. one POOR old fellow SAIL to
me, al was away from home when this occurred,
and now don't know whether any of my family
sre lett 20 me, or whether they are all buried in
there, pointing to the ruins of his house.