Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1905 — City a Smoking Ruin. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

City a Smoking Ruin.

Nogi’s officers report the fortress and city of Port Arthur a chaos of destruction. On all sides are the hideous evidences of the accurate gun fire of 4he Japanese artillery. Hardly a bouse is intact. Roofs are blown off. The smoking ruins of buildings appear on all sides. In the harbor are seen the smok-

ing hulks of the vessels Gen. Stoessel ordered destroyed after he made the offer of surrender. In the streets, littered with debris, are the decaying carcasses of animals. Many of them show how the starving people have been compelled by hunger to live during the last days of the fortress, for one or more limbs are missing from every carcass, whether it be horse or dog.

GENERAL STOESSEL.