| Show STREETS FILLED WITH DEAD venezuelan C ty shelled and raked with art cilery fire the delort of a fierce battle be tween venezuelan revolutionists and government troops comes from ciu clu dad bolivar block after block of the town was destroyed the government troops entering the city bowly all the houses had been barricaded and the revolutionists had been forced from the flat roofs called when the revolutionists finally aban boned the houses after having taken all that could be used for barricades or to otherwise stop the advance of the government troops they were immediately occupied by the govern ment soldiers who bored big holes in them so as to communicate with the next house at 3 0 clock in the morning when the inhabitants of the commercial and fore agn parts of the city near the alameda saw the advance of the gov troops they abandoned their homes and sought refuge in other parts of the city cron crossing sing the streets amidst a hail hall of bullets and shells the women carrying their children the strong helping the weak many men in trying to protect the women fell struck by bullets in the middle of the streets what with firing the yells of the wounded and the crying of the women omen and chil dren a terrible scene was witnessed bad enough to disgust anybody for ever with civil war the government troops however acted with ith humanity especially the forces of general rivera who fight ing braver bravery was nas the first to order the attacking party to be merciful |
