The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-09-01
THE HORRORS OF BATTLE.
A Citizen on the Field of Woerth-an Eloquent
PORTRAYAL of Human Suffering.


The correspondent of the London Telegraph,
writing from Saverne, August il, says
ak"M Delmas has wished me to publish the notes he
made on the battlefield of Woerth. They are elo-
uuent in their brief intensity, and they will afford
YOU more varied observations than could be COM
prised in more formal description. AS to this you
can Judge for YOURSELF
"Sunday-A rush pel nell Of about two thousand
French soldiers, who are running to take refuge ia
Strasburg. heroes yesterday, fugitiyes to-day
Heroes again tomorrow when they will have seen
the standard again and eaten their soup. Sixty pea
SAINTS carts required TO- remove the wounded from the
field OF battle. In the evening, at Bruckmuhl, lot
of Prnssian corpses: pastor and Catholic priest
soldier is struck by his officer because he moved
corpse with his t09S TTo men
the wounded Lanterns OF marauders in the dis
tance on the field OF battle An officer OF zouaves,
his two arms taken Of, wounded in the neck near
the dorsal vertebre. An officer of Wurtemberg, NJ.
Won Elberied; ball in the loins his torments ago
nizing 20 see What OF his wife and children?
dupont, q Parisian, wounded in the thigh-bene,
suffers terribly without complaining.
He has been smoking cigarettes ali the time
"A Turco, his ear, eye and nose all carried off by
the same ball. The surgeons give him morphine to
finish his pain, and leave him. But during the night
he is able 70 raise himself up.
'Rain. Nothing TO eat.
lance in the church. Field Of battle circumscribed
by Rlsasshausen, Froschweiler, Woerth, ReshOfen,
Spaehbach. Gonstett, and Morsbronn. An irregular
semicircle OF which the centre is Reishoren. In the
valley OF Woerth all the dead are Prussians on the
heights OF Froschweiller there are hecatOmbs OF
French OF all arms The cuirassiers lie in the mop
"The heaps OF men, of horses, and OF knapsacks
seen from q certain distance, resemble hOcks OF
sheep resting on the rise of hill. At MOrsbronn
were seen the Prince Frederick Charles and the
Duke OF SAKE COburg Gotha The wounded French
and Prussans treated precisely on the same foot
ing. There is, however, sensible difference be-
tween the morale OF the wounded victors and the
wounded vGnqulshed Prussian officers console
their by telling them OF the taking OF Srasburg
HAt FroschweiIer the: Chateau Durckheim has
been transformed into an hotel There remain
traces OF an obstinate struggle. Our soldiers have
fought bTaVely AS far as Esasshausen the ground
is literally paved with shot, We are told by the
Prussians that they have shot fifteen maralding
peasants.
who had been shot through the lons. II the Sth
aud the 9Th cuirassieTs not entirely destroyed.
there can only remain a small fragment OF them
Poor men! Brave men!
'SThe church at Froschweier burnt down. / saw
the body Of a French surgeon on litter, his kepi
lying on his breast Twenty-Five others are prison
wear the badge OF the international Society They
appear 20 be more wearied and sulky than despair
ing; they are occupied with the care OF the
HHaying quilted the Prussian lines on the lIth
August, We arrive az Btsch II were well re-
ceiYed by our enemies, we also met VITA ample hos
ptallty from our countrymen A military captain
named Landre, with carpet slippers kepi sabre,
and umbrella, did not know what % make or us. At
M o'clock at night, m the midst OF dTenching rain,
ne orders us 10 hoist our knapsacks Oa our backs
and accompany him 10 the fort There we wait for
two hOurs sleep standing, while they open a hun
dred doors and raise hundred poItcallises and
me place. The commandant VINO u q man Of