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Show STREETS FILLED WITH DEAD. , Venezuelan City Shelled and Raked With Artillery Fire. The re.m.rt of tt .'lei ce battle between be-tween Veiieitelan revolutionists and government troops cornea from Clu-dad Clu-dad Uolivar. IIIim k arter blin k o( the Iowa ni destroyed, the government troops enti the city a'owly. All the houses k Y'en barricaded and the revolutlnnlhXyjlvl been (orccd (rotn the flat roof cbIIimI axnteaa. When the rcvoliitlonlsia finally abandoned aban-doned the houses, after having taken all that could bo used for bnrrtcadea, or to otherwise atop the advance of the government trmipn, they were Inimisllntcly occupied by the government govern-ment noldlem, who bored big holea In them ao nn to communicate with the next house. At 3 o'cliMk In the morning, when the inhnhltntitn of the commercial and foreign pnrta of the city, near the Alnmeda, saw the advance of the government gov-ernment trmipn, they ahnndonod their homea and sought refuge in other parts of Ihe city, crossing the etree-ta amidst a hall of hulietn and shells, the wonien carrying their children, the strong helping tlie weak. Many men, In trying to protect the women, fell, atriick by hulleia. In the middle of the streets, what with firing, the yells of the wounded and the crying o( the wonien and children, chil-dren, a terrible scene waa wltnimsed. bnd enough to disgust anytmdy forever for-ever with civil wor. Tiie govern menl trimps. however, acted with humanity, oniH'dnlly the forces of (lenenil Klvora, who. lighting light-ing bravi'.y. wns the first to order the attacking party to be merciful. |