Arizona republican., 1918-01-07

nonade ran the whole range of violence from the deep bass rumble of monster guns up to the staccato rattle of machine-guns which sound ed like strings of big fire crackers in a barrel. A crash of falling walls could be heard every now ard then as one of the big missiles arrived the familiar term used by those who live with this shellfire.
 And yet with the imminent danger many people still chung to their homes and belongings with that same tenacity which makes the Ve- suvian peasants cling to the moun- tain side when the volcano is rag ing and threatening to bury them. But most of these people on the streets are the poor who could not get away, and the small shop keep CTS, who cannot afford to abandon their goods. The big stores are all closed, and the place has the air of a deserted city, with only a few Gorizia had 30,000 people but only a scattered showing in the wide main street fringed on either side with its shell-torn frohts. It was raining hard and this added to the | lugubrious spectacle.
 Of the ravage wrought by the | shells the main facts were cabled on the day of the visit. But there are some additional details worth re- 1 cording now that Gorizia stands out so symbolically. Entering the city
 we passed the extensive Jesuit es- | tablishment where 600 semiLarians were located. One corner was l knocked off, the cornices were hang l ing and several big holes told where l the shells had found a mark The
 main contour of the street was pre-
 served and the buildings were in-
 tact as a whole, but every secoLd
 or third had been hit, some col l lapsing entirely, others with then
 front wall gone and their uppel
 rooms with household goods show.
 ing from the street But there was
 no vast area of completely levelet
 debris as at Verdun or Monastir
 The outlines of a city were stil
 there, but it was a city sieved by
 bombardment
 One modest dwelling stood out a.
 we hurried along, not by it's ruiz
 but by it's cheer in the midst of thi.
 desolation. There were simple lac,
 curtains in the windows, from on,
 of which a pretty little Italian gir
 was looking down on her garden
 She was quite unconscious of tn,
 shell-fire all about and called dowl
 to her companion below. Some c
 the big buildings had their wall
 shored up with long timbers to kee]
 them from toppling over. At tn
 theater in the center of the city tn !, billboards showed the remnants o
 the last performance, months age
 when company of Viennese player
 appeared in comedy. Now ther , were firemen standing in the theate
 lobby, the fire engine was in tn orchestra floor, and the engin
 horses had the green rooms.
 , There was no use looking for hotel, for there were no guests now } and besides all the hotels had bee wiped out. The main hotel, hand | some structure on the main corner was demolished by the explosion C } two 12-inch shells. which Iande squarely inside. The loss of lii must have been great, and the ma } terial destruction was complete, nc l a vestige of the building remainin, l except great heaps of debris. Tn 7 cathedral nearby had also receive 7 a shell through the roof just owe 9 the altar. All the stained glass wiu 9 dows were shivered and the bits la s on the ground. Looking through or i of these empty windows we coul
 see the wrecked altar with it's raj Y ings twisted and its marble side : blasted into fragments.
 S The visit to the citadel was tl e event of the day. This is a hug t pile with old time moat and battl, e ments and a great tower domina S ing the whole country for mil, if around. Here we were to view NJ d Gabriel, Mt. Michol, the Biahsizz s plateau and the whole range IS ground which had passed throu, # this upheaval. It was uphill to t II citadel. Everything showed {
 havoc of long continued fire. in one great court there was pret ull little chapel which had come throu as the ordeal untouched though IT, around was a wreck,