El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-05-12

further we went and the more evidence
| we examined so much the more was
| our skepticism reduced There might
] be some eXaggeratlOn in one witness,
: possible delusiOn in another mac
| curacies in q third When, however, we
/ found that things which. at first seemed
| improbable were testified to by many
| witnesses coming from different places.
] the points in which they all agreed be-
/ came more and more evidently true.
| The force OF the evidence is cumula-
! tive"
! At Herve. Belgium. on Aug. 4. the
( report says, the murder Of an limo
/ cent fugitive civilian was a prelude to
! the burning and pillage of the town
I and Of other villages in the neighbo--
I hood; to the indiscriminate shooting
: OF civilians Of both sexes and 10 The
! organized military execution of patches
/ Of selected males. Thus 50 men escap-
ing from burning houses were seized
taken outside the town and shot. At
| Melen, hamlet west Of Herve. 80 men
. were shot In one household alone the
father and mother (names giYen) were
shot, the daughter died after being re-
peatedly outraged. and the son was
wounded
Young Girl Executed.
IN Soumagne and Micheroux very
many civilians were summarily shot
In q field belonging to a man named
E So OF 81 were put TO death The
eye witnesses Of the massacre saw. on
his way home, 20 bodies one that Of a
young girl Of H. Another witness saw
19 cOrpses in meadow.
AT HeUre lie Roman all the male in
habitants, including some bedridden old
men were imprisoned in the church.
The burgomaster's brother and the
priest were bayOnetted. The village of
Wise was completely destroyed Officers
directed the incendiaries, who worked
methOdically with benzine-
Debauchery and Massacre In Liege.
Entries in a German diary show that
on Aug. 19 the German soldiers gave
themselves up to debauch in the streets
Of Liege, and on the night Of the goth
a massacre took place in the streets
Many were burned alive in their
houses, their efforts to escape being
prevented by rifle fire. Twenty people
were shot. while trying to escape. be
fore the eyes Of one Of the witnesses
The Liege fire brigade turned out but
not allowed TO eXtinguish the fire. It's
carts, however, were usefully employed
in removing heaps Of civilian corpses LC
the town hall"
In the valleys Of the Meuse.
Taking up the valleys of the Meuse
and Sanbre, the report gives lengthy
details Of terrible conditions described
by witnesses at Andenne. and says
About 400 people lost their lives IN
this massacre, some on the banks Of the
Meuse, where they were shot according
TO orders given and some in the cellars
Of the houses where they had taken
family were murdered. Another man
was placed close TO a machine gun
which was fired through him. His wife
brought his body home on q wheel bar
row.
HParaIyfic Murdered
a hair dresser was murdered in his
kitchen where he was sitting with a
child on each knee A paralytic was
murdered in his garden. After this
came the general sack Of the town
Unarmed Civilians Killed in Masses.
Similar details are recited in refer
ence 10 the districts of Namur,
Charlerof and the town of DinanL At
the latter point, the report says. 'un-
armed civilians were killed in masses
About 90 bodies were seen lying on top
OF one another in a grass square oppo-
site the convent It is stated that 46
bodies Of women and children were
found in a garden. The town was sys-
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