The Daily Missoulian., 1914-09-29
CITY OF LOUVA|N
JUST A HEAP Of
RED EMBERS
UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR GIVES
WORLD TRUE PICTURE OF
FATE OF BELclANs
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stroyed except for the arcade Of big
pillars of the Sale des Pas Perdue.
The library and it's treasures are en-
tirely gone
Entering st. Peters by the Rue de
Malines, + find what was the big bell
among ruins. The vaults are for the
most part caved in; there is contin-
uous stream Of stones falling, SO that
we could not enter it without danger.
Everything is burnt. If the paintings
by Boest and Wander Weghe have not
been saved in time, they must have
perished. The Jubilee in the choir is
standing.
Where the City Was.
II walk all over the open space
where the city used to stand. At the
Sept Coins everything is lying on the
ground. The Rue des Ecreamers is
burnt; to the right the Audience is
burnt: the upper part of the Rue dr
Canal is burnt, including the house of
the dean of the students house.
"The Rue de Diest, up to St Pet
er's, is a heap Of ruins, bricks, scrap
iron and charred beams: no trace Of a
sidewalk is visible, and from the ruins
the most disgusting odors are rising
and enveloping everything. Rue de La
q 0nf 1vsy,f h1,f hn
fronts of the modern houses have re-
sisted the fire and the sight there is
mot as tragic as elsewhere
Il now approach the statue Of Just
Lipse, everything burnt. The house Of
David Aischbach and the house Of Mr..
Desagher fallen to pieces, and in the
Petite Rue Louis Nelson's everything
is destroyed.
Their Grave.
at the foot of the statute, in a
flower bed all trampled under foot,
there is an irregular hillock covered
with a few dead leaves. An old
woman recognizing me comes out Of
is the grave OF Monsieur David and
his son. the best people that ever
lived They were killed by shrapnel
fired upon them as they were leaving
their house. The Capuchin brothers
buried the dead and made temporary
graves for tfem,s Graves were found
everywhere. In front of the statue
near house find traces of fire.
"'In this place. the old woman
tell me, the Prussians burnt a body
after soaking it in petroleum. Some
men buried the charred remains
II pick up a key which must have
belonged to the dead man, a memento
of this monstrous incident.
Still the Embers.
''The greater part of Rue Leopold
is burnt; the houses of Van Geluch-
tenn, Lemaire, Debaisieux and many
others among them. In the Place du
Peuple everything is burnt except one
At the Marchearx Grains the house of
Mr. Gilbert is destroyed as we'll as the
first houses to the right, toward
Boels. The lower part of Rue de
Tirlemont also is razed to the ground.
the military hospital and the pharm-
acy of Mr. Rucwez are reduced to
ashes. A section Of the Rue de La
Monnsi the whole block facing Les
Halles. the house of Mr. Van Grunder-
beck, the optician, the bookstore of
Peters and the whole Vieux Marche
except the college of Josephitis form
an entangled mass of ruins of many
shapes.
"1n the Rue de Namur above Les
Halles nothing is burning but every
hing is pillaged. The avenues of Diest
md Tirlemont are destroyed.
In the Full Moon.
I'm the center the sight is extraordi-
1arily picturesque-gloomy, abomin-
'ble. and more so in the evening. when
he full moon is shining over the mass
If ruins. it is really fantastic diaboli-
'al to look at.
The center of old Louvain, the old
'lty of the Dukes of Brabant, exists
10 longer; new city will have to be
'uilt in the center of the quarters
pared by the torch.
However, that is not vet the end.
he big avenues converging in the
enter have also suffered greatly; the
Dads leading into the adjacent cities
re burnt wherever the barbarians
assed through. Thus, for Instance,
n the Route de Malines everything is
n ashes right and left. and within a
circumference of II kilometers, that is |
S far as Campenhout, where the
hrapnel of the Belgians arrested the
orch of the incendiary villains, every
hing is laid bare. The village of Her |
MT has been particularly the object of |
ttacks; it is half burnt: is persons |
'ere shot and several sent into cap
witty, including the old priest and his |
wo Wears and the only retired priest.
"These two observations I made in
ne course of my exploration of this
lodern Pompeii: