New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-27
By JAMES O'DONNELL BENNETT.

Especial Cable; Copyright 1915. by The Chicago
Tfibune)
Novo .Georgievsk, Aug. 20, midnight
(by courier to Warsaw and by mill
tary telegraph to Berlin).-The fort
ress of Novo Georgievsk is roaring
furnace. The hamlets around the
forts are bedded with live Goals, and
the barracks, chapel, bakehouses and
armory buildings, stretched along the
heights hundred feet above the wa
ters of the Narew and the Vistula, are
in flames.
The fire has reached the munition
chambers, and the stores which. the
Russians could neither move nor de-
stroy are exploding in ceaseless vol
leys. Bullets are thrown hundred
feet from the windows by these ex-
plosions and come swishing and pat
terinc down among the trees by the
riverside like hailstorm.
The fire is raging for blocks behind
walls seven feet thick, and the chill
night wind is driving the flames stead
ily forward and forcing them in Grim
son streams through the sally ports
vcntilators and chimneys.
Sink Into Craters.
Already some of the walls have be-
gun to melt and are sinking slowly
into the craters created by the hre OF
the Austrian thirty-and-a-hslf cent?
metre motor batteries. The glare lights
ND the plain for miles around, and the
prisoners streaming slowly across it
hv a dozen roads turn slowly in their
weary march to catch glimpses of the
most terrific spectacle this war has
brought.
Now the fire is breaking from the
barracks and administrative buildings
on the other side OF the river. On
this side the flames are moving along
with jumps from the topmost windows
of the six story armory on the cliff.
The roar Of the explosives no longer
comes in volleys, but in a ceaseless
crash. Gratings constructed of iron
bars as thick as mans arm are melt
ing and falling inward to the depths
of lis fortress furnace.
The walls arc so thick that there
are still some high vaulted passage
ways cool enough to enable one to go
through them and thus reach the in
side of the fortress.
Kaiser Honors Dead Russian.
Taxi * one of these passages, | pene-
trated to the great paved court before
the garrison church. The gliding of
which catches the glow of the flames
leaping from the powder vaults and
classmates. Just before the chapel lies
dead Russian soldier. Somebody has
had the time mercfully to throw a coat
over his face. but in the glare his out
spread hands show greenish white
against the cobble pavement. He lies
here all alone, forgotten and unburied.
but never had man more heroic
funeral pyre, and the Emperor brought
his hand to the salute when he passed
the body.
Some of the Landsturm are pouring
into the court now, carrying trusses
Of straw to bed themselves in the chapel
for the night. One of them stumbles
over the dead Russian, and another
throws down the truss of straw, bends
over the body and lays the dead hands
upon the breast. so that they shall not
be trampled by the passing Of many
feet.
The fire is rolling upward to the eta
del tower, where the Red Cross flag is
flying. | passed two Russian nurses.
the only clean women | have seen in
two days. and a Russian officer OF the
field hospital. anu asked them what
madness prompted the bedding Of the
wounded on the edges Of this roaring
hell of ammunition.
at was n mistake" he replies.
Whether any OF the wounded are
still in peril | cannot learn. think
not. but, whatever the situation, the
fire soon will make all questions super
fuous.
IL is rolling near the cfradel tower,
and one far-fung brand hits the Red
Cross flag. but does not ignite IL The