SURVIVORS GRIM STORY OF TAMINES;
RELGIANS GET “KULTUR” EXHIBITION
Terrible, indeed, was the fate of
Tamines, a little Belgian town near
Charleroi, as told by a native who
himself was shot down by a German
execution siiuud, subjected to point
blank machine gun fire, and finally
succored by German Bed Cross men.
The French soldiers had evacuated
the hamlet.
The Germans rushed In, shooting
right and left.
What followed is vividly narated by
William Cooper Stevenson in the Out
look.
Mr. Stevenson got the story direct
from a native who was living in Ta
mines when the Germans came.
"I fired just once the gun which had
been left me. and then flung it from
the window and tied to the cellar,” the
Belgian explained to Mr. Stevenson.
FAMILY HID IN CELLAR
“There my wife and 1'ittle ones hud
dled together, while outside was dis- >
order terrible. We heard some one
hurst in the front door, and then the
sound of tramping feet and crashing
glass overhead.
“After several moments the cellar
door opened; hut no one appeared on
the threshold. I think the Germans
were afraid of the shot which might
have met them. But one cried in his
own language something which I couVl
not understand, and then in execrable
French something more which I could
understand no better. Finally the door
slammed again.
"We held our breaths, though it was
not necessary, and crouched closer
among the wine bottles. How long we
stayed in the cellar I do not know.
HOUSE SET ON FIRE
“But suddenly my wife remarked the
crackling sound of flames. “They have
fired the house,’ she cried. It was true.
In an instant the sound became unmis
takab’e, and I knew that wo must go
forth or be caught like rats in a trap.
"For a moment we hesitated, think
ing that perhaps it would be better to
die than to go out. But one clings to
life, monsieur; wo could not stay. Be
hides, we had taken a little wine, which ,
gave us spirit.
•'Carrying the smaller girl, 1 climbed
die stairway for the cellar; the oth
eis lui'owed close behind me. Then
flawing a long breath, 1 opened the
uuor, and we ran through the smoke
oui into the street. Immediately two
soldiers seized us, but not roughly, and
pushed us along toward the village
common. We had .not gone far before
we met other groups of neighbors al
most paralyzed with fear, all being
driven the same way. Everywhere
were burning houses.
VILLAGERS HERDED LIKE SHEEP
"da (lie common—where we are now,
monsieur—we found many more of the
inhabitants, who had been herded there
like sheep. They were of alt ages,
from Hie little ones like my girls to old
men like their grandfather. He was
dazed with terror, hardly knowing
what he was doing. We kept him with
us.
' As it grew dark—or rather as the
twilight faded, for there was little
darkness that night, with all the b'az
Ing— we were driven into the church. |
“There were about 1500 of us in the \
church; but not all the neighbors who
must have been in the village when the 1
Germans entered. Some of them had |
escaped. Hut some others, alas! had
been to terrified to leave their cellars,
and so had been trapped in the flames.
"What a night! No one was allowed
to leave the church; no food was given
us; but hunger was not thought of ex
cept the children.
"Flashes from our burning homes
flickered through the windows, casting
shadows upon the wa’Is and a strange
light upon the frightened faces. Hut I
think what made it seem most like a
horrible dream, what 1 hated most of
all, was the singing of the soldiers on [
the common outside,
GERMANS' "LITTLE MAID” SONC1
"There is a German song—you have
heard It perhaps—I have been told it is |
called ‘Kleine Madchcn milssen schla- ]
f. n gehn.’ 1 cannot forget that song, j
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To me it was more terrible than the
shooting and flames. Sometimes the
sentinels sing- it now, and I shudder.
"But 1 cannot describe that night.
My wife, the little ones, my father-in
law, and 1 clung to one another near
the altar. And we dared not hope for
morning, not knowing what it would
bring.
"When the sun rose at lust, however,
there was a strange quiet—that is, a
quiet in comparison with the noise in
fernal of the night. But from the main
road and the bridge came the constant
tramp of troops and roll of munition
wagons, while still in the distance
could be heard the booming of the
heavy guns at Namur.
"Morning wore on and nothing hap
pened to us. The children cried for
food and were given a little by some
of- the guards, who did not look un
kind men, monsieur, for all they did.
But none of the rest of us thought of
hunger. Noun came; and still no one
was allowed to leave the church.
“The suspence was very hard to
bear. By this time many of the wo- !
men and older men had become so
weak and exhausted that they lay upon
tlie chairs and floors almost uncon
seious. And during the afternoon
more than one fainted.
"And so we passed that long night
and that long day.
GERMAN OFFICER’S (,R!M ORDER
"At six in the evening i.n officer sud
denly appeared in the doorway and
spoke in German soim words which r
could nit understand. And then »>i
French lie ordered ail I ilginn men to
come forth into the common.
"What a wail of despair! To be
taken from our dear ones—you cannot
imagine the horror! Wo cling to one
another. We cannot move for fear.
"Immediately the soldiers began to
drag out the men. They tear them
from their wives and children. What
farewells! Many of the Germans!
themselves are sobbing like the infants
“All at once I am wrenched from
my wife’s arms. My father-in-law is
seized at he same momnt. W’e are
pushed and carried through the church
and out into the common.
“And here in full view of the church
windows, we are hoard, right along
this wall to the river bank yonder.
We are almost six hundred. Some are
very young men, others almost as old
its my father-in-law.
“That it is awful you may well be
lieve. One of my neighbors has an
epopletic fit. Many are falling to
the ground only to be forced to their
feet again by the relentless guards. A
few, crazed, plunge into the river and
attempt to scape; but they are shot
immediately. The rest of ns are para
lyzed with terror.
"And from the windows of the
church our wives and children look
down upon it all.
FACING A FIRING SQUAD
"Then as we falter here a platoon of
soldiers is lined up across the middle
of the common and faced towards us.
An officer walks into tho open space j
between and shout.? a few words 1 j
cannot understand. I cannot think. ’
He steps back. Ho blows his wliis-'
tie. There is a crash—and a heavy
low shatters iny knee.l fall to the
ground in the midst the bodies of my
comrades. But I am still alive .
"As in n dream 1 hear the officer
shrieking: ’Refez-fous! Refez-fons!’
1 try to raise; but 1 ennnot for my
knee. Many do, however, thinking the
execution is over.
Again the officer blows his whistle.
Once more there is a crash. And then
no one is left sttinding; there is hut
« great mass of dead and wouded. 1
"1 lie quite still, pretending f ami
dead. Against me and about me are
the bodies of my comrades.
RIDDLED BY MACHINE GUN
"But all is not over yet. Suddenly
there comes the horible rat-tapping of
a mitrailleuse. Once more I feel a
heavy blow, this time on niy hip. But
i’ does not give me so much pain ns
my knee. At last the tiring ceases.
The women, who saw everything
from the window of the church, have
have told me that after the second vol
ley had. been fired upon us by the
platoon the officer still was not satis
lied. Furiously he ordered over a
mirailleuse from a compan> which
was crossing the bridge at the tune.
Many ol the soldiers, overcome with
grief, expostulated; but in vain. 11c
forced the gunners to place the'ir tri
pod by that stone in the corner of tin
grass there. And then, monsieur, the
mirailleuse was played back and forth
over the mass of dead and wounded.
"All the l«»ng night 1 lay with the
dead comrades around me. Some of
the wounded who were near the river
slipped quit.e’y into th«* water and
tried to escape by swimming. A few
succeeeded; but more wi re drowned or
else shot by the sentinels. Many
j bodies w. re atferwards found in tin*
witter.
"You would think! would hav- gone
miid jis 1 lay there; but I did not. I
suffered from my wounds. 1 lost con
sciousness from time to time. I
thought ver> much of my wif and
girls, whom I hud left i i the church.
STRANGEST ACT OF ALL
•Morning came, and still the guards
watched us and would allow no one to
approach. It was not till afternoon
that German stretcher-bearers came
in among us. They picked out those
of us who were still alive. I fainted
« rice more. When 1 revived, I was
comfortable and w- II bandaged, in a
house across the railway.
"And now, if you please, explain this
f«»i me: The German had taken me
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I then*. They had bandaged me care
ful'y. They had told the women where
to find me. The Germans who had
shot me had done this. I cannot
understand it. What an affair!
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