The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-07
CARTS FILLED
 WITH WOUNDED Dead and Injured Are Hauled
 Off Togttbar CORPSES USED FOR OEFENSES Scene of Conflict Has Become Valley of Death-No Quarter Given
 or Received on
 Either Side.

Headquarters of General Rennenkampff, near Aubenepusa, Saturday, March 4, 8 q. m.. via Mukden. March 6.-The road northward is crowded so far as the eye can reach by a continuous file of two wheeled Chinese carts fuli of Russian wounded, the best testimony of the valor with which the army of the east, fighting continuously for a fortnight, has defend- ed every inch of the ground over which 1t has been compelled by superior num- bers to retire.
 Each cart bears from three to five wounded men, whose exhaustion is almost too utter for them to feel pain. Scarcely groan or cry Is heard-not even the moans of the dying-only the dismal creak Of the rude wheels, and the thud of the ponies hoofs are audible. Most of the wounded have their heads covered with Chinese blankets or dirty coats, stiff with coagulated blood. hiding wan and dirty faces, distorted with pain. sunken eyes and expanded nostrlls. Here and there Is seen a cart with two wounded men between whom is q corpse, which with every jolt pounds against the helpless liv- ing comrades of the man on whose face death has sealed the distortion of unbear- able agony.
 Has Become Valley of Death.
 The valley in front of the Russian posi- tion has become valley of death. Corpses strew the debatable ground from which neither side can remove its dead.
 Again and again the Japanese charged down the slope and up the hill. Again and again the Russians counter attacked try ing to gain possession of "the hill with the tower" No quarter was asked for or given by either side. The enmity ceased only in death the wounded with breasts torn open by shrapnel or bayo- net, essaying another shot until their last breath. There lie two foes with bayo- nets in each others breasts. Everywhere corpses! corpsesl corpses! For two days the Russians had been concentrating a heavy artillery fire on "the hill with the tower" stopping the sapper work.
 Heaps of corpses for Defenses.
 At o'clock in the morning yesterday the Russian skirmishers heard a noise at "the the hill with the tower" Creeping forward they discovered that the Japa- nese were heaping up corpses for de- lenses. The Russian field batteries im- medately opened fire and forced cessa- ton of the work. At dawn yesterday the Japanese attacked the Russian po- sitions near Oubenepusa. The attackers 
 anese, so mechanically did they move forward, and with undying persistence attacking only to be thrown back. They repeated this at 10 o'clock in the morn- ing after preparatory artillery lombard ment and reached the Russian trenches, where a bayonet fight ensued. At the crucial moment General Alexieff, conn manding the vanguard, arrived on the scene with two companies and turned the scale against the Japanese. Among the wounded was Lieutenant Colonel Hrostitsy of the general staff, who never theless remained at the front.
 Employ Ingenious Scheme.
 Towards evening the fighting slaekened. The Japanese employed an ingenious scheme to drive the Russian artillery, whose shells, though having the ranges, appeared to be exploding in the wrong direction. The officers were about to re- sort to experimental firing. when skir- mishers reported that the Japanese were exploding small mines and even throwing dirt In the air with spades to effect a deception.