The Raymer enterprise., 1914-10-08

down.
For ten minutes We saw shells
bursting all about it. AT times it was
lost in smoke, but when the smoke
cleared away there was the mono.
plane still blazing away, always
mounting TO a higher lexel and finally
disappearing toward the French
lines.f
There was another 1ull in the can
nonade and We were permitted to
pass down the street near river,
where, by peering around building
we could see where the German bat
teries were secreted in the hills. We
were warned not to get into the street
which led to the bridge, as the Ger.
mans raked that street with their
fire il person appeared. We then
took advantage Of lull in the fir
ing and departed to the south at 70
miles an hour. to beat the shells IL
any were aimed our way as we
crossed the rise in the hill.
Shells Strike 100 Years Apart.
We passed the night at village
where considerable execution had
been done by German shells. We saw
one curious effect of them. In a
historic building near the city hall
there was a shell imbedded in the
wall with a plate fixed beneath II
showing it struck there in the year
1914. Just next to it was an unex-
ploded shell Of 100 years after stick.
ing in the wall
We again struck out toward the
battle line, but when we were with
in sound OF the firing the authorities
decided we had seen enough OF war
and detained us for two days as
guests OF a reglmental staff, which
was quartered in courtyard. There
we were privileged to see how the
French soldiers lived and became such
hardened fighters as they were prov
ing themselves to be. We ate with
them and slept with them in the straw
until orders came to send us to Paris.
AS we were leaving our coward the
authorities grabbed another group Of
correspondents. four in number, head
ed by Richard Harding Davis. They
were ordered to accompany US to
Paris instead Of passing several days
in the straw sampling hardtack and
army fare.
Tells Of Horrors Of War.
London.-The Standard correspond.
ent, +. st. Beaman, writing from
Town in France, says:
THE fearful horrors of war can
never be grasped by seeing the care
fully tended wounded who come back
to England and hearing their tales.
however gruesome, while there is
scarcely day in any Of the French
towns near the armies that does not
bring with 1t some live terror from
the front. One example will suffice
to point out this truth. Four days
ago the hospital corps and volun-
teers were notified that a convoy was
expected. Towards midnight it ar
rived, bringing French and German
wounded. The latter were abandoned
by the Germans In Senlis when they
retreated after setting fire to the
town.
I'VE had had many trains of wound.
ed before, and all necessary arrange
ments we're made as usual, but when
this convoy arrived even the most
hardened had to summon all fortitude
TO the task Of emptying the carriages.
When a man had a broken leg or
arm or a bullet through his lungs the
skilled ambulance staff soon had him
comfortably backed, but here were
human vestiges SO mangled that It
was difficult to find place to touch
them without causing screams and
means. An insufferable charnal house
stencil pervades the whole night air.
Lao Out rour lays.
Most of the wounded had lain for
four days and nights where they had
fallen before being picked up, and
had not yet had their wounds exam
ined, much less dressed. Under the
burning sun and myriad Of flies and
under later rains they had been left
to suffer the torture Of pain, hunger
and thirst until 1t was marvel they
still breathed.
"The state of their wounds cannot
be guessed and does not bear descrip
tion. 1t was three o'clock In the
morning before they could be dis.
posed Of in hospitals. Even "a
hours later all had had first dressing
The Germans were far the worst cases,
for the French fire seemed to have
been much more destructive, and
when 1t does not kill outright ravages
horribly. After four days many died.
and we had to shift them again. such
Of than as could be moved"