Show PRESENTS DESOLATE SPECTACLE bombardment fire and Earth earthquake bring ruin to town london A dispatch to the aimel from servia says bays this city presents a desolate spectacle two hundred and fifty eltty ol of its buildings were destroyed by bombardment bar dment this was followed by fire doing more damage and then came an earthquake shaking the city so severely that the houses which remain are almost falling to pieces finally the deserted town was visited by a band of thieves who looted every house from cellar to root roof the contents of the shops were thrown into the streets all safes were opened in a professional manner and the contents of houses smashed the pie pic tures were slashed and the furniture was wa splintered in an orgy of gf destruction 4 before the austrians Aust lans rians left they de strayed the principal local church large numbers of serb hostages including the principal residents were taken to austria as prisoners hun dreda of the local populace who were killed by bayonet thrusts for various alleged misdeeds were burled buried by the austrians Aust lans rians in the local hurch church yard the senseless bombardment still continues although the town Is de sorted except for the sentries on thursday the serbs gerbs succeeded in laying mines which sank an austrian monitor |