Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1914-10-01
DEVASTATION DUE
SIEGE OF LIEGE
TOLD BY MAIL

BERLIN, Oct 1.-The following
descriptions Of the devastation at
Liege and Namur are translated from
accounts in the Tageblatt.
we reached Liege on the evening
of stormy day. We travelled
through streets where the smoke of
burned houses was still curling up
ward streets that showed no signs
of life. Patrols marched through the
city. The beautiful shops across from
the university were a field of ruins
was told that two nights before, on
August 21st, shots came from these
shops as if by prearrangement. The
inhabitants of the houses were
dragged out, the women were torn
from the men, and whoever had a
weapon in his hands was shot. In
few minutes the streets were sown
with corpses The houses were set
on fire
"Eye-witnesses described for me
the details of the conquest of Liege
Louein the strongest fort was bonn
barded by the newest Krupp guns,
which were stationed in the market
place in the middle Of the city. Every
window pane in the vicinity was
I broken by the concussion, and pieces
of roof fell from some of the houses.
/ The fort soon surrendered. A division
of Jaeger were the first men to enter
the fort The destruction was terri
| BILE. About 400 corpses lay piled in
side the stone walls. The stencil was
unbearable About 200 wounded were
counted. The only man uninmred
was the commandant A wounded
man, who evidently was about TO be
operated on, lay in the lazarett. He
had been hit by a shell. Liege
had altogether thirteen forts. Nine
were taken by infantry storm, the
Others We're reduced by artillery. The
forts are being repaired for German
use by the inhabitants of the city
who get six francs a day for theil
work
"A German, who had lain in a Bel
gian fort as prisoner and witnessed
the whole bombardment. described
the course of the battle. The bonn
bardment he said began at midnight
on August 9th. One shell after an
other exploded, and Liege was soor
atre in many places From every
roof and window in the houses cam,
q rain of bullets Under this fire tn,
Germans stormed through the yillag,
of Roncourt and deployed in a whea
field. Two hundred Germans opened
a rapid fire on 1000 Belgians, o
whom 500 fell Nineteen German
prisoners were confined in a celia
when the Germans heavy ariiller,
began firing They could hear tn
shells coming through the air, an,
every time they exploded, gas, pow
der, earth and cement dust few int
the cellar until the men were nearl
suffocated. Finally On explosion bleN
in the iron door of the cellar, am
shortly thereafter the Belgians SUI
rendered. freeing the prisoners.
g "On the following morning | wen
n to Namur In Liege certain street
had been burned out, but in Manu-
whole blocks We're destroyed. TIL
: Grand palace, with its beautifl
Rathaus, had been blotted out of e,
istence. In its place were heaps {
ruins, from which smoke was sti
coming The destructive effect {
grenades could be noted on man
e houses. The city was without brea
n German patrols were guarding III
bakeries, which were being storme
by the people. BY 4 o'clock in II
> afternoon even the largest hotels ha
= no provisions of any kind left. On
J troops were fed from the vast quaint
: ties of food stored in the forts
the city there was a shortage
everything, especially potatoes al
salt