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Show The Horrors of War Pillage Ami. sination and Arson The Dreadful 1'hlnnB. La Franc, iu a letter from Eeos, says : "We are in consternation. It is pillage, assassination and arson that our unhappy canton labors under. On Monday, towards four o'clock in the morning, the two parishes of Foret-la-Folie and Quitry were surrounded sur-rounded by the Prussians. At Foret two of the inhabitants who no one knows how were pointed out to the enemy as having 1 tit their aid to the Franc-tireurs on Thursday, were, I won't say shot, but massacred. These were MM. Campigity, proprietor, and Laiur, a garde chanil ette. 'The first was pierced i.y elgut balls fired close to him; his house was tired, and three corn mills close by were treated in the same manner. A lirnr.e:' bad to s.e bis shop stripped, the' pillagers taking away rolls of tianne!, etc. At the house of a wine merchant they filled their bidons with brandy: then, descending de-scending into the cellar, they sioe iu all the full butts. At Quitry the murdering mur-dering and ineendiuiisLu took still more coniiviaVc limits. Three W.. belonging to the farm of M. lie-nard. Mayor of the parish, were shot; three others have disappeared; they are believed be-lieved to be buried in the ruins of the farm house. M. Bosnard escaped several sev-eral times with difficulty from being killed. A Prussian wounded himself Si'lJ1 ywof a haehetintended lor sons M. Constant airl txossem v.e,'a riddled with balls. One M. Gamier, a farmer, had his stables burned, with the thirty sheep and one hoi'.-o that they contained. All the corn nulls were burned. Three people were led out to be slmt. One had to submit to his sad fate; the s.-ennd was tied to a cannon, and received most ignominoiis treatment; the thiid was released. M. Besnard, iu the face of tho.se atrocities, atroci-ties, went to the commander of those bandits to expostulate, lie was answered, an-swered, "We are making reprisals," and when M. Besnard declared on his honor that not a shot had been tired in the parish, the commander, after consulting one ol his under officers, replied re-plied that he believed wliat his men I told him, who affirmed the contrary. He never attempted to stop the work of murder and destruction. All this I saw with my own eyes. Yesterday morning at the village of Bray-Echos, some Uhlans assassinated a workman of the manufactory of Bray, while he was going to his work. Tli6y transpierced trans-pierced him with thrusts of the lance. M. Bedaw, Mayor of Bray and director direct-or of the manufactory, went to the colonel at Mangy. Hi received the same answer as M. Besnard; and the colonel even added that the whole valley of the Epto should be burned. What a prospective!" |
