The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1914-08-19
AWFUL RESULTS OF CARNAGE
Around Liege, Where the
Belgians and Germans
Fought So Desperately.
\ CHASTITY SILENCE OVER ALL
rBy Mary Boyle o'ReiIlyJ

sible 70 the scene OF battle.
At Brussels I halted. for ! coul'
not get nearer Liege. which tn
German army was Smelling.
Here have talked 70 man wh'
has been in and about Liege since
tire city was first besieged- From
him have frst-hand reports Of the
fighting. They all agree that there
was terrible carnage. horrible scene.
OF war-bl oodshed. wailing wounded
and-the dead thousands and thou
sands.
An Amsterdam merchant. one OF
the first noncombatants to visit the
battlefield. OF Wise and Liege. told
me- what he himself had seen.
Il never want to set my foot upon
another battlefield" ne declared.
and hope TO God that there will
never be another battlefield any
place on the globe again"
why" / asked. though ! more
than suspected what his answer
would be.
Well. here is just one reason-a
blue-eyed boy lies dying in agony.
alone out on the country road be-
yond Wise: pierced By a bullet and
mangled beneath the iron wheels Of
onrushing artillery.
He had fired upon passing Ger
man troops from his fathers cot
tage. The soldiers had dragged him
ont. together with his father. and
left the one unconscious. the other
dead. in the path Of the guns that
followed.
Perhaps death has blessed the
Toy BY now. Pray God it be so. He
was moaning pitifully for il, as we
passed in our motor. only few
hours ago. But We did not stop.
Horror 10 confess, / hardly noticed
his suffering, had seen 50 much
like il. and worse. All feeling was
gone. after the time had spent on
charnel field. where writhing
wounded lie compressed in the
bloody mass OF the dead.
yes. when / started out in the
motor. for run along the battle
GROUND. from Wise to Liege. rather
expected the trip would be exciting.
u would be glorious, TO be one OF
E.Ih ylaa
Belgians had been 50 valiantly fight
ing Tor hearth and home against the
invaders,
Would that 1 had been the last
10 visit them-after the wounded
had all been taken up. and the dead
burned or buried. ! might then
have been spared the fearful picture
al carnage. which il now painted on
NY mind in horror. forever.
There were flowers and smiling
faces in the neat cottage windows.
as sped through the peaceful from
tier village OF Mesch. Yet only a
little further on, as We rounded a
lhIus We lOuHu Nllf Hd'lilh' htfiniis
blowing through cluster OF dead
soldiers. the wheels skidding in
blood, There had been skirmish
of OutpOsts there Beyond was the
site OF German camp, marked by
heaps OF the dead.
"Belgians and Germans lay strewn
ftsin
mute evidence that the conflict had
been hand-tO-hand- bayOnet against
saber. Lying among the corpses, on
them, under them, We're the bodies
OF horses and the wrecks OF automo-
biles and bicycles. The Belgian cy-
clist infantry. surmiscd. had
caught body OF German infantry
and cavalry here in flank move
ment.
The silence was CHASTITY. The
battlefield was two days old. and the
wounded had all been picked up. or
more likely. had found relief in
death.
''All along the route, villages were
in ruin, fields hattened, forests char
red by lame. A sheet OF fire and
steel seemed TO have blazed across
the country and left 1t dreary will
derness.
Much further along, ! came to
the read carnage-the fresh battle
fields around Liege. The living, still
uneared for, lay among the corpses.
Have You ever burned out a huge
nest of worms in tree and seen the
mass OF their bodies on the ground
seeming 10 writhe as whole, be-
cause OF the still wriggling. agoniz-
ing forms scattered through it' Just