Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1877-10-27
AFTER THE BATTLE.
Inc scenes at Ptevna Ten Days After
the Fighting OF the IIth and 18th OF
September

lHdr Corresponding London Telegraph.
81 pose the frequent contemplation OF
ghsstly Genes renders a man very callous 70
even the most dreadful speciacles yet nc was
WIN TEL ngs of no ordinary emotion thai 4
looked around on the groand where still Law
g. ed Russian corpses. For here
hso rageh me n rcest OF tue fight on those
two terrible days-t1e 18th aud 18TH of Sep
tembe7 here the enemy hal fallen ii Se
whes ben b the scythe. Taken between
two hrts, broken, dispersed, demoralized,
they had run hither and thither helplessly for
shelter, the while that the pitiless bullet,
bayonet. So Der and shell were doing their
deadly work And here We're the fearful r.
suits. Great heal s OF dead literally covered
the ground, many lying upon oae another
having iallen so thickly a. not 10 find room
u on the bare ear tn wherein TO die. They
were In every Conceivable posture-had re-
C a. ed every description of wound. As
looked upon The SCENE said TO myself. VINO
shall LAY that any picture OF a battle field is
unlike the reality, when there is more va
ri " OF no ror here than mind can imagine?
Many o the bodies were naked Others nearly
So havi"s been stripped by Bashi- Bazouks
a others need ng clothes. Most OF the dead
were very youns, mere stripliugs, not at all
ht for the harjships of war-bea ri less BOYS
WIN min fac-s and fair hair, VINO ought to
nave been at home Learnt e 20 read ld W ute
aHd gain an honest livelihood. They were
TO De found In holes, where they had appar-
emily hidden themselves when the storm
OF hre burst upon them, hoping against
hope that they might perchancs es-
cape; hey We're by hundreds ia the
lOsse OF the rtdoubt. where they mad been
Killed 10 trying 10 get over its parapet: they
were under The hrdges; two had D sen killed
tree, and were there still. lying athwtrt
The bouGhs; wherever ii was possible fpr
Them TO b. found there they were. [ believe
Monsieur Loire sketched heap lying imms-
diaJely under the parap-t Of the fort Htv-
H. s,'i many butte fields, IL yet NAMED
Ia M to BE- amazed AT tn terrible Sl.ugntar
that had taken place on this hilI. I know
that u e Turks did not suffer severely al
though they were first of ali beaten ont Of The
redOubt, ard afterwart had to reta ke il and
cal not attempt To explain il. All | know
IL that twenty tour cart loads OF rurkish
dEad-in all perhaps l21 Do1Ies-were first of
all remoN ed from the Held yesterday mora
ing. Then another lot. say 100, were taken
away aud buried. After thiS saw four ca IT'S
b. ldlng 10 or 20. ard bei eve about 90 more
bodies were alt rwards found on the field. in
all 800 or 50. But here Were 900 Russians
lying STARK and cold Our wOuntcd wOaid
amount 10 another 200, - perhaps "A few
mort; In a pei hapS 600 or / loo. rne Turks
were put ont OF combat. The Russians hal
left eight Times The number behind them a ID
am quite unable u explain u on any other
groald than mat at last The Russians were
SO terror : rcken that they were unable to
very much trouble IL was "A difficult task
no doubt, 10 surmOuut that hill in face of the
Turks In the first instance. out "a much IN Dre
ffcult task t. descend Il again in safety
when once those Turks returned and CHARGED.