The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-09-26
AWFUL HORRORS OF DEVASTATION
 OF LIEGE TOLD


 Berlin, Sept. f2., (by naiL) The following descriptions of the devasta- ton at Liege and Namur arc trans lated from accounts in the Tageblatt.
 We reached Iiege on the evening of a stormy day. We travelled through streets where the smoke of burned houses was still curling upward, streets that showed no signs of life. Patrols marched through tHe city. The beautiful shops across from the uni versity were a field of ruins was told that two nights before, on sAu- gust 21st, shots came from these shops as if by prearFangement. The inhabitants of the houses were drag ged out, the women were torn from the men, and whoever had a weapon in his hands was shot In 8, few min utes the streets was sown with coFpses The houses were set on fire.
 stEye-witne described for me the details of the conquest, of Liege. Loucin. the strongest fort, was bonn barded by the newest Krupp guns which were stationed in the market place, in. the refiddle of the city Every window pane in the vicinity was broken blythe occasion, and pieces of roof fell from some of the houses The fort soon surrendered. A division of JaRgerS were the first men to enter the fort. The destruction was terri b1e About 400 corpses lay piled in Il unbea rable About 200 wounded were counted. The only man unihjured was the c01nmandant. A wounded man, who evidently was about to be operated on, lay in the Jarrett He had been killed Aby a shell. Lege had altogether thirteen forts. Nine were taken by infantry storm, the others we're reduced by artillery. The forts are being repaired for German use by the inhabitants of the city. who get six francs day for their work
 A German who had lain in a Bel Rian fort as prisoner and witnessed the whole bombardmenE. described the course Of the battle. The bonn bard1nen he said, began at midnight on kngusf 9th. One shell after an of1zer exploded, and Liege was soon af7re in many places. From every roof and window in the houses came a rain of bullets. Under this fire the Germans stornned through the village of Roncourt and depIoyed in wheat field Two hundred Germans opened a rapid fire on 2,0Oo Belgtans. of whom 500 fell. Nineteen German prisoners were confined in a. cellar when the Germans heavy artillery began firing They could hear the shells coming through the air, and every time they exploited, gas, powder, earth and cement dust flew into the cellar until the men were nearly suf- located. Finally an explosion blew in the iron door Of the cellar, and sllorfly thereafter the BeIgians sur rendered. freeing the prisoners.
 .sOn the following morning I went to Na1mur. Tn Liege certain streets had been burned out, but in Namur whole blocks were destroyed. The Grand Palace, with it's beautiful Rathaus, had been plotted out of ex- istence. In It's place were heaps of ruins, from which smoke was still coming The destructive effect of grenades could be noted on many houses The city was without bread. German patrols were guarding the bakeries, which were being stormed by the people. By o'clock in the afternoon even the largest hotels had no provisions of any kind left. Our troops were fed from the vast quan- titles of food stored in the forts In the city there was a shortage of every thing, especially potatoes and salt.
 ..In the afternoon we went on to Gem bIoux The famine was still worse there. The soldiers declared that they had been unable to gel bread or beer from the people fol fourteen days.ssss