The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-07-31
$4,000 CIVILIANS FLEE
AS CAR YIELDS WARSA w
Railways and Roads Choked With Endless Stream of
People and Belongings, Bound for Russia
American Consul Remains at Post.

600 OF peasants came troopng into the
Polish metropolis from the neighboring
districts
practically the entire population Of
the country on the north. south and west
came IN a ceaseess procession day and
night, the tired. dust whitened peasant
families with their cattle and portable
goods throngng the roads converging on
Warsaw. In the city itself literally tens
OF thousands of homes were broken up
Instantly | know OF four cases OF men
worth more than $1,000. 900 last month
who are now nearly penniless.
simultaneously with the evacuation
all property likely 60 be useful to the
enemy, especially metal and machinery
was removed or destroyed. Factories
were fsvershly stripped and the owners
of the plants were granted free trans
port to the eastward for what they
could save. Day and night one heard
the periodical roar on a dynamited fac
, tory plant that was embedded In con-
crete or WAS too cumbersome TO dis
mantle and transport Every fragment
OF this dynamited metal was taken
eastward on the railway.
The newspapers OF Warsaw made
their last appearance with the issues
announcing the evacuation. Then the
linotype machines were rooted up from
the floors and carted away. Police and
soldiers visited every printing estab-
lishment and every newspaper office TAX =
ing the fonts Of type and dismantling
the presses Hardly a ton OF copper
fittings was left In the city. All stocks
/ of copper in pipe factories and plumb
ing shops, copper used for household
ware-copper of every kind wherever
found-was removed, SO were the
stocks OF ironmongers, hospital supplies
and officers kits.
! strip the city.
Warsaw knew no stoppage Of work
in that week end. The huge post office,
the banks, the telegraph offices, the law
I courts and the various municipal de-
| partments were busy dismanting
I Through the streets endless columns
OF laden carts and lorries converGed on
the Praga and AlexandroysN bridges
across the Nistula. wagons with peas
ants with a few sacks OF potatoes and
the banks MILLIONS OF rubles in paper
money, or the irreplaca bic records OF
/ the !aw courts
| The church doors were fiung open
and the ediiices were crowded with weep
Ing and praying Poles and Russians
among whom passed the ministerinG
! priests in their gorgeous robes, while
aloft in the towers the huge bronze bell
were unslung lest they became food for
/ the Krupp cannon later on. All the
church bells, archives. treasures, gem
studded rituallstic implements, screens
vestments and icons are now being car
ried over the Vistula and away to Rus.
STA, II is reported that the vault OF the
church OF the Holy Cross in Krakovsk
street was opened by choppng and tina,
the sacred heart preserved there wa.
removed TO MOSCOW.
The telephone exchange was disman.
tied. The dynamos supplying power &c
: the street cars were removed, as were
all OF the wheels and detachable fitting,
OF the cars, to be taken to Russia. Al
the crops around Warsaw were de
stroyed, Villages are being razed to III,
ground and the city's suburbs are beins
surrounded with trenches. The thre,
Vistula bridges, including the new
Praga Bridge. more than a mile Ions
and costing s6.0O0,0o0. are lined viii
sand bags. and wires are set in readi
ness to explode land mines at the las
moment before the Germans enter War
saw.
The evacuation OF the towns betweer
! Warsaw and Brest-Litovsk is beginnin,
and hardly 100000 persons remain.
"Since July Fl every wheeled vehicle
has been taken across the Vistuia, wtl
nearly all the horses. Two thousa M
hackney carriages are being driven b,
their owners across Russia for d!stanc
OF nearly 1000 miles TO Moscow Thou
sands OF poor people are being ferrie
across the Vistula daily. al streamin
eastward and unable to buy bread |.
Warsaw"