Centre Hall reporter. [volume] (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1868-1871, 1871-02-10
THE HORRORS OF WAR.

GhdSify Scenes on The LOlTe-A Young
Ladies Boarding, School Filled seith
Dead aud Dyiag-Noi a Drop II
Baier ia -Four Days Cold, Hunger.
Thirst, Wounds-Hocuiombs oi Dead
Ercryrhere
[ From the London Times, December 20 ]
As the war is prolonged lis horrors
increase. The bitter weather under
which we are shiyering in this country
would alone Involve u terrible aggrava.
tion Of misery. In this respect il is
long since such suferings have been
inflicted, even in war. But such hor.
rible scenes as were described by a
Military Correspondent" are but too
probable in such operations as the Ar
my of the Loire has lately been engag-
cd in, and il Is 10 be feared they have
been many times multiplied within the
course of the present month. That ar.
my has been executing n continuous
strategic movement Of retreat, and
fighting almost continuous battles du.
ring some of the severest weather of
the month. Both armies have been
strained TO the u,lermost, and have had
no time TO look behind them. The hor
rible consequence has been that the
wounded have practically been lefl as
uncared for as the dead They have
in some instances been gathered otfthe
field Of battle, though there must be
who have been leit 10 perish
of cold on the spot where they fell.
But even when carried under shelter
they have simply been heaped togeth.
err in uninhnbited houses, and have
lain there for days unatten.
ded, unfed, and almost uncovered. The
scene at Beaugency, described by "A
Correspondent is one even
more horrible because a more prolong-
I'd scene of fagony. In house which
had once been Pension de JetRes
Files. "every room from cellar 30 root
was crowded with dead and starving
men, lying so thick it was impossible
10 move among them" Ii was Satua
iay, and many of them had been there
,ince the Wednesday, some since tie
Thursday. All that time mot one
lrop of water, not one atom Of food,
,ad passed their lips" nor had any
comforting hand approached them. If
/ broken legged sergeant had been able
o throw his own coat over his more
eyerely wounded officer that was the
Utmost relief any Of them had obtain
d. Moreover, the windows Of the
louse were all broken" and all these
lays aud nights ofalmost Arctic cold :
hey had been lying on the bare floor I
With their wounds undressed." All Z
he agonies Of wounds, of cold, of hun.
er, and thirst, with all the horrors of \
cath, were endured for days together )
" these helpless sufferers. The battle, !,
a fact, had been raging for three days y
round Beaugency, neither side gain c
~ such undisturbed possession of the
own as to be able to think of the woun.
ed. Even on the second day. Ger.
ian shells burst in hospitals where -
'rench volunteers were tending Ger. n
ian wounded. That night there was
nly one doctor in the town capable of
erforming amputations, and there G
ere 200 desperately wounded men in b
ne building alone. "The dead 10y !,
lick among the dying, and as the for o.
Ter were dragged out their places were N
Istantly filled. Miserable objects, y y
ith broken jaws or faces halfshot away, h,
andered about pointing to their dread. RI
Il wounds and making piteous signals 0a "
II water, which il was impossible for n
lem TO swallow. Officers and men, CO
eterans and boys, all lay in one un- Z,
stinguishable mass of misery. Every 70
oan that the human voice can utter 5,
se from that heap of agony" This -
rs on the Thursday. How many
ore scenes like the one we have just
scribed might there have been seen r.,
Besugeucy On Saturday, And Auw NJ