The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-05-12


after being repeatedly outraged al
the son was wounded
'in Soumagno and Micheroux, vel
many civilians were summarily sho
IN field belonging TO a man name
E., 50 or 81 were put to dealt
A German officer said. You hav
shot at us One of the Fillager
asked 10 be allowed to speak. an
said II sou think these peopl
fired, kill me; but let them go Th
answer was three voileys, The sur
yiyors were bayonetted Their cor
pses were seen in the field tina
night by another witness One al
least had been mutilated These
were not the only victims in Sour
magnc The eyewitness of the
massacre saw. on his way home, 2C
corpses, one that of young girl OF
10. Another witness saw nineteen
bodies in a meadow.
at Heure lie Roman, all the male
inhabitants, including some bed-rid-
den old men, were imprisoned in the
church The burgomaster's brother
and the priest were bayonetted. The
village of Wise was completely de-
stroyed Officers directed the in
cendaries who worked methodically
with benzine Antiques and china
were removed from the houses be-
fore their destruction, by officers
who guarded the plunder, revolver in
hand.
"Entries in a German diary show
that on August 10 the German sol
dlers gave themselves up to debauch-
cry in the streets OF Liege. and on
the night Of the Goth massacre I
took place on The streets Though
the cause of the massacre is in dis
puie, the results are known with GER
tainty. The Rue Des Pitteurs and
houses in the Place del 'Uniyersite
and the Quai des Pecheurs were sys-
tematicaily fired with benzine; and
many inhabitants were burned alive
In their houses, their efforts to es-
cape being prevented by rifle fire.
Twenty people were shot while try
ing to escape, before the eyes OF one Ii
Of the witnesses. The Liege fire bri-
rade turned out, but was not allowed
however, were usefully employed in
TO extinguish the fire. Its carts,
removing heaps of civilian corpses to
he Town Hall" II
Taking up the valleys Of the Meuse II
md Sambre. the report gives leng- h
ny details of terrible conditions de-
,cribed by witnesses at Andenne, and t
'ays: II
about 400 people lost their lives b
n this massacre, some on the banks
II the Meuse, where thew were shot a
according to orders given, and some e
u the cellars Of houses where they t
lad taken refuge Eight men be-
onging to one family were murder y
d. Another man was placed closel !,
o machine gun, which was fired a
Trough him. His wife brought his lii
,ody home on a wheel barrow. Thel S
iermans broke into her house and Ia
ansacled it, and piled up all the t
atables in heap on the floor and l.
elieyed themselves upon it. b
"A hair dresser was murdered inI
is kitchen, where he was sittingI v
18th a child on each knee. A par u
lytic was murdered in his garden d
fter this came the general sack Of la
he town. Many OF the inhabitants v
-ho escaped the massacre we're kept IN
s prisoners and compelled TO clear b;
le houses of corpses and bury them
! trenches. These prisoners were 1t
Subsequently used as a shelter and "
rejection for pontoon bridge te
hich the Germans had built across m
le river and were so used to pre- 70
INT the Belgians forts from firing tn
pon IT, Of
"A few days later the Germans m
,lebrated fete noctume in the
luare Hot wine, looted in town. an
AS drunk and the women we're com Sc
HE'D 10 give three cheers for the
aiscr and to sing Deutschland Ub- be
allies, tn
Similar details are recited at tn
uch length in reference 10 the dis. an
let's OF Namur. Charleori and the ins
wa OF Dinant Al the latter point VII
c report says, unarmed civilians tbs
,ro killed in masses. About ninety boz
dies were seen lying on top of one the
other in a grass square opposite
e convent They included many chi
atives OF witnesses whose depo- gre
ions are given It is stated that sar
sides the ninety corpses referred an
sixty corpses OF civilians were re- da,
'ered from a hole in the brewery I
a and that forty-eight bodies OF cor
meu aud children we're found in q por
dan The town was svsteuatlcai- str