The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-03-07
PILED
UP AS DEFENSES
Bloody Picture of the Great Battle
Now Raging.
NO QUARTER is GIVEN
AWFUL ToRTURES OF RUSSIAN
WOUNDED.
HEADQUARTERS of General Rem
- nenLarnnf Near OuhPnenuSa

HEADQUARTERS of General Rem
nenkampn, Near Oubenepusa,
Saturday, March 4. 8 a. m.
-(Via Mukden, March 6)-The
road nOrthward is crowded so
far as the eye can reach by continu-
Gus file of twO-wheeled Chinese carts
full of Russian wounded, the best tes-
timony of the valor with which the
army of the east, fighting continuous
ly for a fortnight, has defended every
inch of the ground over which it has
been compelled by superior numbers to
retire. Each cart bears from three to
five wounded men. whose exhaustion IS
almost too utter for them To- feel pain.
Scarcely a groan or cry is heard-nOt
even the means of the dyins-only the
dismal creak of the rude wheels and
the thud of the ponies hoofs are audi
bic
Corpse in the Middle.
Most of the wounded have their heads
covered with Chinese blankets or dirty
coats stiff with coagulated blood. hiding
wan and dirty faces distorted Wit
pain, sunken eyes and expanded nos
trils. Here ard there is seen a cart
with two wounded men between whom
is a corpse, which with every jolt
pounds against the hapIess living COM
rades of the man on whose face death
had sealed the distortion of unbearable
agony
The valley in front of the Russian po-
sition has become a valley of death.
Corpses strew the debatabIe ground.
from which neither side can remove its
dead.
No Quarter.
Again and again the japanese
charged down the slope and up the
hill Again and again the Russians
coUnter-attacked. trying to gain pos
session of the hill with the tower"
No quarter was asked for or given by
either side The enmity ceased only IN
death
Here sits a japanese upon stone,
stretched him out into eternity. There
lie two foes with bayonets sheathed in
each others breasts.
Breastworks of Dead Men.
Everywhere corpses. corpses. lcorpses.
For two days the Russians had been
concentrating "A heavy artillery fire on
the hill with the tower" stopping the
Japanese sapper work. At o'clock in
the morning yesterday the Russian
skiTmishers heard a noise at the Hill
with the tower"
Creeping forward. they discovered
that the Japanese We're heaping up
corpses as defenses. The Russian field
batteries Immediately opened fire and
forced a cessation Of the work
6dyoneI Fi9nI-
At dawn yesterday the Japanese at
tackled the Russian positions near GU
benepusa. The attackers were scarcely
recognizable as valiant Japanese, so
mechanically did they move forward
and with undying persistence attack,
only TO be thrown back. They repeat
ed this at ten in the morning after
preparatory artillery bOmbardment
and reached the Russian trenches,
where a bayonet fight ensued. At the
crucial moment, General AleXieff, com
handing the vanguard, arrived on the
scene with two companies and turned
the scale against the Japanese. Among
the wounded was Lieutenant Colonel
Hrostitsky. of the general staff who
nevertheless remained at the front.
Toward evening the fight slackened.
The japanese employed an ingenious
scheme TO deceive the Russian artil-
lery, whose shells, though having the
ranges, appeared to be exploding in the
wrong direction The officers were
about 10 resort to experimental firing
when skirmishers reported that the
Japanese were exploding small mines
and even throwing dirt in the air with
! spades to effect a deception.