The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1870-09-07

| The Arrival Of Car Loads 81 Wounded
French Soldiers In Fraukfort-Tbe Gens-
Inc Chivalry Of the Germans.

The Arrival Of Car Loads Of Wounded
French Soldiers In Fraukfort-The Gens-
Inc Chivalry Of the Germans.
Correspondence Of Ms BoaoH Journal
There were Fly odd cars, mainly freight way
ons on the hoors OF which bountiful Quantities OF
.rS. mad pssa Here ny 10 eooS, and
snd Prussians together. The 1rst few cars were
nlled With dangerously wounded Frenclmen. In
the group was one Turco and several Zousves. q
captain who had lost MS epauettes and was stretch.
ed despairinaly on the noor, and lieutenant who
was
SHOT THREE rInss,
and whose right arm was already swollen 70 twice
70 natural Size. The native courtesy Of these IN.
fortunate fellows admirably exemplined by their
'schie efforts to rise as we entered The car.
Moet Of the prisoners were wounded twice, gen
orally in the arm or leg most OF III Prussians once
only, either in tue head, breast or Ioaer limits
Tie BaNaraus, the very boys whom we had seen
leaving Speyer a week before were many Of them
savagey wounded. as they had INDUCED in so much
srS aste SS Yn Ss Bs'sn g the
Can, and have the ramc whimsical, picturesque way
OF talking. One little fellow, scarcely tall enough
his right hand shot away. lie hailed me for cigars
and when osked lin where he was hurt, Zach /
nothing but little scratch in the hand and another
in the Leg But made him cold, the red breechcs
He won't do 1t again ~ Nearly all the Bavarians in
The action-two brigades--were light-bared, blue
eyed boys. fresh and pure from the world, but, say
the Frenchmen,
rrnocious As TIGERS
IN battle. These boys had heard before leaving
Bavaria that the Tnrcos carried knives and des.
patchcd Tie partially wounded with them. One
whole regiment therefore provided itself with the
short Hat knives made in the mountains Of Upper
Bavaria, and announced this fact to their comrades
lheir colonel heard OF II, and commanded them TO
leave the cutlery behind whereu upon they refused 10
march. Knowing their temper, he was Obliged to
submit, and many Arab met his fate at the point
VI those short blades.
Frenchmcn generally received, all along the line
better caro- than the Pruss ans some OF them were
IN. AL tpd
that their enemies were highly noble. Even the
cited crowds were kept back, and when a wounded
man was stripped and held down in his agony to
have the fostering or suppurated wounds probel he
Was cared tor as though lie were a of Germany.
In the cars. where Prussians and French were
crowded, the best Of feeling seemed to prevail
Prisoner aud captOr drank beer from the same
lass anI IHeIpea 70 Dandage each others wounds
One stout FrvneiInan was supporting a poor Bava-
rian lad, who was shot through the face and was
evidently fast sinking could never have believed
the Irussans so eIcitable and emotional a people
had not seen them
WEEPING AND soBpNo
at sight Of the pain and misery OF strong men. We
had one Frcnchmah who was shot three times, and
was bound to die standing. for he would walk al.
though he could not live many hours. lie was sur.
rounded by twelve Prussians, who ran hither and
tlither TO procure whatever he needed. and cried
IKE children when he was put on the strstcncr and
probed. They had lain the we. earth together all
one dreadful night, with the voices OF the wind and
rain and the shrieks o. dying men, procsining to
them the necessity of peace and good will, and
were bound BY strong chords OF friendship then
:" Tcys. rous," said one French ofhcer to me,
these Prussans IRE at very short range. They
Keep advancing when II seems certain death, aud
tley always ain deliberately. They lost double the
killed We did but there arc not so many Germans
~ trench badly wounded The Bavarians club
their muskets, the rascslly infants and they were
as bad as our Tgrcos TO cali OF They wouldn't hear
the butes Down m the valley, between u ose two
m1rderuus hills oonNHe ca land he drew a little map
OF the scene In the straw dogn there the dead OF
hOt, SIDES were piled up so high that they served
TIE Pgrsslns Tor baIIeades. That long ugy forest
On the hi.l Is
FULL oP DEAD
and wounded now There are no chances TO brinz
them away, ami some are 50 shot that they IL M
rather than suleT themselves to be moved"