The Harrison times., 1914-05-09
What War Really Means.

Let us hope we will have peace
again soon The jingoes are not found
among the veterans. War is worse
than Sherman said It was. This de-
scription, which / copy from the In
dependent, is all too true
No more thunder OF artillery, NO
more blare Of trumpets, no more beat
OF drums; only the low moan Of pain
and the rattle Of death. In the
trampled ground some redy.glimmer.
ing pools, lakes Of blood; all the crops
destroyed, only here and there a piece
Of land left untouched, and still COW
cred with stubbe; the smiling villages
OF yesterday turned into ruins and
rubbish. The trees burned and hacked
in the forests, the hedges torn with
grapeshot And on this battle-ground
thousands and thousands Of men
dead and dying-lying without aid. No
blossoms OF flowers are 10 be seen on
waysIde or meadow; but sabers bayo.
nets, knapsacks, cloaks, overturned
ammunition wagons, powder wagons
blown into the air, cannon with broken
carriages, Near the cannon, whose
muz2les are black with smoke,' the
ground IL bloodiest There the great
est number and the most mangled OF
dead and hatdead men are lying III.
orally torn TO pieces with shot; and
tho dead horses and the half'dead
which raise themselves on their feet
such as they have left them-to slnk
again; then raise themselves up once
more and fall down again, till they
only raise their heads to shrek out
their pain.laden deathcros, There is
a hollow way quite filled with corpses
trodden into the mre The poor crea.
lures had taken refuge there, no doubt
70 get cover, but q battery had driven
over thom, and they have been crushed
by the horses hoofs and the wheels,
Many Of them are stlll Gllye-a pulpy,
bleeding mass, but "stlll alive"
II Is impossible 70 depict It aeou'
ratoly, Flies we're feeding on their
opef wounds, which were covered with
them; their gaze, flaming with fever,
wandered about asking and sooklng
for some bolp-for relreshment, for
water and bread Coat, shirt flesh
and blood formed IN the case Of most
OF them ono rapulElye mass Worms
were beginning to generate IN this
mass and TO feed on them, A horrible
odor fllod every place All these sol
dInrB were lying on the bare ground;
only q few had got little straw on
which thoy could rcposo their miBer'
able bodies Some who had nothing
under them but clayoy awampy
ground had holtmnk into the mud II
formed they had not the BtFength TO
got out Of H.
In MaBloyed, q place Of about fifty
houses, there we're lying, eight days
after tho battle, about ZOO wounded
II was not 80 much thoIr shrloks Of
agony ms their abandonment without
any consolation which appealed TO
heaven, In one single barn alone sixty
Of these poor wfetehes were crowded.
Every one Of their wounds had origl'
nhlly been severe, but they had be-
como hopeless In consequence OF their
unaBslstod condition, and their want
Of nursing and feedlag, almost all
were gangfonous, Limbs crushed by
shot formed now mere heaps ~ pu'
tfofylng flesh, faces -pero maaA Of
ooagulalod blood, covered with nth,
IN which the mouth was represented
by a ahapelosa black opening, from
which ffightful gfoana Kept yelling
out, Tho progress Of the putfefaetloh
separated whole m,ftl1ed pieces from
those plllablo bodies Tho llylng wore
lying close 10 dead bodies which had
begun 10 fall Into putfefaellonr and
for which The worms we're getting
ready,
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