The Saint Paul globe., 1904-10-31

ters staff at the foot of our hil1 the COM
missariat officials and their subordinates
are hurriedly removing documents. Sim
liar. work Is going on all round at the
various other staff and cOmmissariat Of
fees In. the distance alongside the rail-
way station locomotive engines are puff
ing andzbloWing and railway carriages are
strung. out IN enormous lines a part OF
the stores have already left, and we can
hear the creaking of the commissariat
wagons.
Wounded Begins to Arrive
AT 2 o'clock the first transport of
wounded arrived The severely wounded
are placed by ones and twos in the two
wheeled ambulance carts. with a canvas.
cover Those less severely wounded are
placed by threes and even fours. Others
are supported by the hospital attendants,
and those slightly wounded are dragging
themselves along unaided. For the first
time since the war began l saw such a
gathering of wounded and was struck by
the qlietness prevailing amongst them.
Neither shouts nor groans were to be
heard, except now and then when the
rough two wheeled carts which would
cause strong man some .qualms gave a
particularly severe JOLT. then one would
hear pitiful exclamations: Oh, Lord.
have mercyi Mother of heaven, can't
stand it,
suspending operations till in the after.
noon, the Japanese on this day broke
their rules, and continued to lombard us
lOT I'LL Ill6y were WOTtH. IHt- uiCtdSihS
roar of artillery made one dizzy. There.
was no getting away from the horrid din
1t pursued one everywhere BY 3 O'Clock
the sky overloaded and rain began to
fall. The ground. which had not yet dried
from the previous doWnpour. soon be-
came converted into a yeritable bog, over
which the ambulance carts creaked.
smashing mud, on their way back to their
position for a further batch of wounded.
Living and Dead
Govt G -,oIooIy fT,;c m orr,inor L11ro-
patkin, accompanied by all his staff, left
to ride around the positions, and mean
while his train was brought on to the
main line and proceeded first to the sta
tion and afterwards, when the commander
had returned and entered his carriage
three versts from Liau-yang, the train.
was drawn on to a siding.
On riding through the town just before
the departure l stopped near the church..
A sad picture presented itself to my eyes
On the other side of the enclosure, IN a
tiny hollow, lay ten corpSeS, placed side
by side, and covered with sheets, from
under which one could see their feet,
looking hideously dirty, covered with
black earth. Some of them still wore their
boots, but the majority of them were
barefooted. The aged priest and his
deacon, with a few choristers selected from
ing the burial service. While the serv-
ice was being read over some OF the
corpses, bearers were hastily bringing
others and unceremoniously f1inging them
on the ground.
Up to o'clock in the afternoon the
Japanese left us alone. it was said that
they were placing siege guns to lombard
the city. Our armies retreated beyond
the line of forts and took up very well
entrenched positions. lndeScr1babie tu-
multi prevailed at the railroad station.
trains were rapidly formed, loaded with
wounded, with artillery ammunition. with
commissariat stores, and hurriedly for
warded The refreshment room at the
station was thronged mostly with reserve
as doctors and sisters of mercy, all hur-
rying to satisfy their hunger, as no one
knew when he would next have meal
Effect of cannonadlns
The hum of many voices filled the air;
the noise was literally deafenlng. Sud
denly just at 2 o'clock, the well-known
kissing sound of shell was heard above.
the Station roof and the proiectile burst
alongside the building. An awful crash
for the moment obliterated all other
sound; then came the rattle OF falllng
glass and stone, the crowd rushed hither
and thither-a piercing Shrek rent the
! air; it came from a sister of mercy who
had been struck by splinter as she was
with blood Then came another shell,
bursting a. little to the side, near the
water tower; third fell beyond the ne; sta a.
attaches lived. The bombardment OF
Liao-yang had begun.
Along the whole length of the railroad,
from the Red cross noSpltai OF lne
Georges Sisterhood, stretched line OF
tents where lay wounded. whom it had
been impossible to place in the railway
carriages Here they We're dressed, sorted
out and entrained. AS the carriages were
filed up the trains moved off one after
another, northward. The sun was wester-
ing night was at hand. In some places
fire broke out; some stores which had not
been removed We're burning. Shots re-
echoed on all sides. The flare of inS
numerableld discharges of artillery was to-
be seen here and there. Above every
things g1owed the flames of the fire
and the heart was filed with the bitter
I ness Of vague affront. Only now could
to some extent realize what our ances-
tors had felt in leaving MOSCOW, since the
abandonment of such an insignificant and
even foreign place as Liau-yang causes a
|. heartache. Today it is still in our hands,
but tomorrow, or at latest the day after,
the Japanese will enter.
All night long the Japanese poured a
stream of shot and shell into Liau-yang,
centering their fire upon the. spot where
stood the headquarters of the commits
| Sariat depotS. The latter, however, had
almost all been emptied. This senseless
futile bombardment racked ones nerves.
What are the fools wasting their am