New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-13
Sen1pst.

In Senpst similar condition Of af-
fairs existed Houses we're burning
and i'm some Of them were the charred
remains % civilians.
In "a bicycle shop witness saw the
burned corpse Of man. Other wit
ncssos speak 20 this incident.
The corpse q a man with his legs
cut Oft. who was partly bound. ives
seen by another witness, who also saw
q girl Of seventeen dressed only in a
chcmjec and i'm great distress. She al
legged that she herself and other girls
had been dragged into a ncld, stripped
and violated and that some of them
had been killed with the bayonct
Wccrde Al Weerdc four corpses of
civilians were lying in the road. l..
was said that these men had fired upon
the German soldiers, but this IS dc
Med Tho arms had been given up
long before.
Two children were killed in vii
lacc, apparently Weerde, quite wan
tonly. as they were etandirg in the
road with their mother They were
three or four years old, and were
killed with the bayonet.
4 small farm burning close by
formed a convenient means o. getting
rid % the bodies They we're thrown
into .hc flames from the bayonets. It
is right 10 add that no commissioned
officer was present at this time.
Eppcchom Al Eppeghem, on August
%. a pregnant woman, who had been
wounded with a bayonet, was discov-
cred in the convent. She was dying.
on the road six dead bodies Of labor
ors were seen.
oL, 4
body was tied up 10 a ring in the wall
in the back yard Of q house He was
dead, and his corpse was mutllated
I'M q manner too horrible 20 record. A
woman's naked body was also found in
stable abutting on the same back
yard.
Vilvorde-At Vilvorde corpses Of
civilians we're also found. These vii
lagos arc all on the line from Malines
20 Brussels.
Boort Meerbeek At Boort Mecrbeek
a German soldier was seen TO fire
three times az a little girl OF five years
old. Having failed 20 hit her. he sub
sequently bayoneted her lie was
killed with the butt end OF rifle by a
Belgian soldier who had seen him com
nit this murder from a distance.
Herent At Herent the charred body
Of civilian was found in a butchers
shop. and in a handcart twenty yards
away was the dead body OF laborer.
Two eye-witnesses relate that Ger
man soldier shot q civilian and stabbed
him with baycnet as he lay. lie then
made one of these witnesses civilian
prisoner. smeli the blood on the
bayonet
Haecht. At Eaecht the bodies Of ten
civilians were shen lying in row by
brewery wall.
I'm a laborer's house, which had been
broken UP. the mutilated corpse of a
woman Of thirty to thirtyfive was dis
covered.
A child Of three, with its stomach
cut open by a bayonet, was lying near
house.
Werchter.-At Werchter the corpses
Of man and woman and four younger
persons were found in one house. II IS
stated that they had been murdered
because one of the latter, a girl, would
not allow the Germans TO outrage her.
This catalogue Of crimes does not by
auy means represent the sum total of
the dispositions relating to TINS DIS
trict laid before the committee.
Murder of n Priest.
One witness describes the scene
graphically: "The whole Of the prison
ers'men. women and children were
placed in the church. Nobody was al
lowed TO so outside the church to
obey the calls of nature. The church
had TO be used for that purpose. e
were afterward allowed 20 go outside