Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-07-13

had $4,000 men, so that the junction
of these forces would give Yelling
ton an army of $50, 600. Yelling
tons idea was to act on the defens-
i've until the arrival of Butcher and
then both armies would fall upon the
French.
AT II o'clock on Sunday, June ls,
the horrid carnage began. Hour
after hour the French soldiers made
onset after onset up to the very
muzzles of the British guns and were
cut down like grass before the scythe.
The demon Of destruction and woe
held high carnival. For many hours
the whole field was swept with an
unidentified storm of balls, shells,
bullets and grape-shot; while cnor-
nous masses OF cavalry, in fluent and
retluent surges, trampled into the
bloody mire the dying and the dead.
There were now 10000 of the COM
batants weltering in gore. The wide
extended field was covered
with bodies in every conceivable
form of hideous mutilation. The flash
of the guns, the deafening thunder
of artillery and musketry. the groans
and the piercing shrieks of the
wounded. the dense volumes of smoke,
which e%nveloped the plain in almost
midnight gloom, the delirious shouts
of the assailants as they rushed upon
death, the shrill whistling of the
missiles of destruction, and the wild
fight of the fugitives, as, in broken
bands, they were pursued and sabcrea
by the cavalry, presented the most
revolving spectacle of war in all the
enormity of its guilt and of its tiend-
ish brutality.
In the midst of these awful scenes,
when portions of Wcllington's line
were breaking, an army Of 10000
men, the advance guard Of Blucher's
army, led by Bulow, deployed upon
the plain. To meet these Napoleon
dispatched 10000 men, and so gal
!ant!y did they fight that the Prus-
SLAMS were hurled broken into the
woods.
Grouchy's Fatal Delay.
Napoleon was then waiting for
Grouchy to come up. He had sent
different couriers to summon him to
the field, but the messengers never
reached the Marshal, and he re-
NAMED miles away, inactive. Time
and again officers, hearing the ram
nonade Of Waterloo, besought
Grouchy to hasten to the Emperor's
aid, but that officer remained obdu-
rate. He not only did not hold the
arm of Butcher in check, but he
would not even advance to Waterloo.
Had he done so and hurled his divis-
ion of 30, 900 men against the allies,
the result of that battle would have
been different.
Anxious as Napoleon was to be sus-
tained by Grouchy, Wellington was
even more so to be REINFORCED by
Butcher. He knew he could not long
hold out against the furious charges
of the French, and as the day adj
vanced he looked at the distant hills,
| whence Butcher would come, IL at
all, and called out, "Would to heaven
that Blucher or night would comet"
just at the critical moment when
Napoleon was giving orders for a
simultaneous attack the united forces
! of B!ucher and Bulow, SO, 900 strong,
came pouring on the field. Napoieon's
wasted bands were now in the ex-
IRENE OF exhaustion. For eight
hours every physical energy had been
taxed to its utmost endurance by
such a conflict as the world had sci.
dom seen before. Twenty thousand
of his soldiers were either bleeding
upon the ground or motionless in
death. He had nov less than so, 900
available troops to oppose $50, 900.
Wellington during. the dry had
brought up some additional forces