Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1914-08-29
FRANTIC FLIGHT OF
TOURISTS DESCRIBED

Gu passengers were left behind
Where they are now heaven oplv
knows.
The train slowly proceeded toward
the frontier. The district one Of tba
richest and busiest in Russia. was 81.
lent and deserted. Here and there in
a wide field an old woman was seen
struggling to harvest the crops. Fac
tories were deserted. The workmen
had gone to war.
Baggage Left Behind.
1t was not until nightfan. when the
train reached Nuremburg. that the
passengers learned that two baggage
cars had been left behind. AT every
station from the Austrian frontier to
Holland, l saw piles of trunks. mostly
belonging to Americans and English
men. The stories told by passengers
from Berlin, Hamburg and Paris Of
countless thousands of pieces of bag
gage piled at railroad stations stag
ger ones credulity.
Just as we crossed the border came
the news that Germany had already
begun to mobilize. Plans were hast.
ly made and as hastily discarded. Ey-
cry one wanted to know what trains
were running, what frontiers we're
open and what steamers We're sailing
There was no one to answer.
The train logged through the sans
sad scenes of desolation we beheld in
Austria-beautiful fields, crops ripe
for harvest without a soul to reap
them. Factories were quiet We
were sidetracked every little while to
permit trains laden with soldiers to
pass. At nightfall, without having
eaten all day, our trainload arrived
at Nuremberg, where the station was
crowded with Americans, Engishmen,
Belgians and Hollanders waiting for
hours for a train.
The Nuremburg hotels were filed
with foreigners. Some were going TO
Switzerland Rumors came, howeyer
that Switzerland had formed an aiii'
ance with France and that the Ger
mans had stopped all trains.
Rides in Baggage Car.
No one knew what truth there was
in the rumors; no one knew any way
of ascertaining the truth. all was con
fusion, Then came official announce
ment that all railroad communication
with the French frontier had been
suspended and that after "a hours 90
further trains would be run in the Ger
man empire.
The following morning nearly every
foreigner in Nuremberg left for ia7
West in two streams-one toward bri
GUM, the other toward Holland
chose Holland. and the memory oi
the ride will long abide with ne Aae
a nightmare.
At Bonn three army officers f"ga'
through the crush and compelled I'D
occupants of a first-class compartment
to give up Their seats. We were D2"
In the heart of German mob'Azal0-
Every station was thronged win soy
diers. We passed camp after caN7
and train after train laden with sl.
carriages, tents and provisions passed.
US
At every station the soldiers 1e-
PEELED the passengers to close a.
and windows. They were ec-Fl--
against bomb being thrown from .-
train. one man who did nor Close
window fast enough was proca-q
a bayonet
At the Dutch frontier Tie
stopped and every passenger --.7
went rigid examination No 9
man was allowed to pass any iaf--7
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Lady Cook pointed out that me 's
en- would be the logical defenders
the country when the men are a.-4'7'
TO the front.
Our womens army mus' BE- .eA-'
TO fight and TO die for Britain b
going to arouse the women Of E.s---
so they will. If the time sho-lc l-~
resist the invaders IL 2 fight 5
homes &ad their honor
4 believe English women 7-l --4A d
good fighters. You know wha, H
says: The female OF the 81 -s
more deadly than the male.