The German
soldiers then fired a mitrailleuse and their rifles upon the
people, and the people fell on all sides. Two men next to me
were killed. I afterward saw some one give a signal, and the
firing ceased. I then ran away with a married woman named B.,
(whose maiden name was A.M.,) aged 29, who belonged to
Aerschot, but we were again captured. She was shot by the side
of me, and I saw her fall. Several other people were shot at
the same time. I again ran away, and in my flight saw children
falling out of their mothers' arms. I cannot say whether they
were shot, or whether they fell from their mothers' arms in
the great panic which ensued. I, however, saw children
bleeding."
JOURNEY TO COLOGNE.
The greatest number of prisoners from Louvain, however, were assembled
at the station and taken by trains to Cologne. Several witnesses
describe their sufferings and the ill-treatment they received on the
journey. One of the first trains started in the afternoon. It consisted
of cattle trucks, about 100 being in each truck. It took three days to
get to Cologne.
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