Eagle Pass Guide. (Eagle Pass, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 16, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 14, 1895 Page: 3 of 8
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Consolidated Export Lumber Company’s Yard, C. Porfirio Diaz, Mex.
. . BRANCH OP ...
Consolidated Export Lumber Company
OIF1 IBIEJAXXIMIOlsrT, TIEIXIJLS.
Capital, $2,000,000. ANNUAL SAW MILL CAPACITY, 100,000,000, ft. PLANER MILL CAPACITY, 65,000,000 ft.
Manufacturers of
Long Leaf Yellow Pine Lumber. Cypress Shingles, Etc.
O. N. SMITH, Agt.Yards!TAMPICO, MONTEREY,and C. PORFIRIO DIAZ.
We quote prices on Lumber at any point in Mexico. Having just opened yards near Cram’s gin on the Mexican
International railroad in C. Porfirio Diaz, we have unsurpassed facilities for handling Texas Long Leaf Yellow Pine
Iiumber. We will put in a choice selection of rough and dressed lumber, adapted to this market. We solicit orders
from the trade, and invite all those in the market for building or mine timber to call on us, or write for prices*
VAN VOORHIS & SANFORD,
Mining Machinery and Supplies.
iPipe, Fittings, Valves, Packing, Shovels,
Picks, Sledges, Ore Sacks, Crucibles, Etc.
-AGENTS ROR-
'The Seeger & Guernsey Co., New York
'The Morgan Crucible Co., London.
Price List Sent on Application.
•No. 50 Calle de Morelos, Monterey, Mexico.
THOSE DESIRING
PHOTOGRAPHS,
.Artistically executed. Carte de Visite,
or Cabinet sizes, should apply to
Mr. M. Rodriguez-Perez.
Calle de Guerrero, C. Porfirio Diaz, Mex.
Q L. MUELLER,
Civil Engineer and Surveyo
Mining ann Topographical Surveysfoi
Mexico.
Estimate s and Plans for Buildings
Bridges, Waterworks, etc.
Correspondence solicited in English
Spanish, German and French,
Mauricio Rodriguez Building,
Teran Street,
U. Porfirio T>inz...........................I’oohnilr .
Lawn Tennis. Athletic Goods
BAINBRIDGE & CORNER.
BOOKSELLERS.
STATIONERS, and
ENGRAVERS.
ESTABLISHED 1885.
Sole agents for Wright and Ditson’s
Athletic Goods. The best made.
Send for Catalogue.
SAN ANTONIO. TEXAS.
Opera House Building, Alamo Plaza
MARLINE
FENCING
.WIRE ROPE SELVAGI
^Poultry, Farm, Garden, Cemetery,
Lawn, Railroad and Rabbit
Fencing.
Thousands of miles in use. Catalogue
Free. Freight Paid. Prices Low.
The McMullen woven wire fence co.
114,116,118 and J20 N Market St.. CHICAQO. ILL.
Made in. all styles and sizes. Lightest,
I strongest, easiest working, safest, simplest, I
most accurate, most compact, and most |
| modern. For sale hy all dealers in arms. [
Catalogues mailed free by
The Marlin Fire Arms Co.,
New Haven, Conn., IT. S. A.
A War Horror.
To-dav the traveler from Mos-
cow to Warsaw crosses the Ber-
esina at a place called Borissov,
eastward of Minsk. Where the
railway now passes, there Napo-
leon intended to go with his ar-
my in 1812; but there, too, the
Russians had assembled in force,
and, according to all the rules ol
war, there Napoleon should have
been captured, along with the
wholeot hisarmv. TheRussians
were acting upon an excellent
grand plan of war, with superior
forces well fed and well clothed.
One army came from the north,
another from the south—these
two were to bar Napoleon’s pas-
sage of the Beresina, while the
the Beresina. But all the ap-
proaches were choked with bag-
gage wagons, struggling horses,
men, women and chddren, all
blindly bent upon the same ob-
ject, but each contributing to
make the task impossible. There
was one bridge for heavy loads,
another for foot passengers; but
in that army of Napoleon was
no force capable of securing or-
derly movement over these brid-
ges. The scene could be com-
pared only to a panic in a bur-
ning theater, when people mad
with fright trample one another
to death in frantic effort to reach
a door. The mad mob struggled
on the bridge with an energy that
would have saved them all had
main force, which hung upon his ! they kept their muskets and re-
PRANK POX,
Builder.
BRICK MAKER,
EAGLE PASS............................TEXAS
F. GROGS & Co.
BANKERS
San Antonio........................Texas.
^Dealers in Foreign and Domest><' Exchange
Estimates given for all kinds ol Building
IN ROCK OR BRICK,
men and means to execute all jobs
well and speedily.
Makes, Uses and Sells the Far-Famed
RAGLE PASS BRICK.
{^"Special Quotations on large orders
J. H. MORGAN,
Carpenter, Contractor
E. H. COOPER,
Wholesale and Retail
PHARMACIST,
EAGLE PASS, TEXAS,
Piedras Negras, Coahuila.
AGENT FOR COOPER’S
FAMOUS SHEEP DIP.
Adolph
Carpenter
and Ruilder.
Estimates furnished on all kinds of buildings.
EAGLE PASS. TEXAS.
HOTEL TOPO CHICO.
TOPO CHICO HOT SPRINGS
Up Stairs Rooms—Airy and Com-
fortable. Rates Reasonable.
TvniEtS- s. 3Mt.T3:or,i,i3sro, F>r s
flanks all the way from Moscow,
was to drive the French to their
destruction. From the beginning
to the end of this strange cam-
paign Russian commanders ex-
hibited plentiful want of com-
mon sense, but nowhere more
than here. They posted them-
selves at the point where they
thought Napoleon ought to cross
arid of course Napoleon took
pains, to hold them there while
he arranged to cross somewhere
else, higher up.
On the night of November 25
work was begun upon two brid-
ges, and on the day following
troops began to cross. How
many crossed no one knows.
These were not times for dress
parades and muster rolls. A
comparison of many guesses
makes it fair to assume that Na-
poleon led between 30,000 and
35,000 soldiers across the Ber-
esina, and perhaps as many more
stragglers and camp followers.
All day and all night and all the
next day and the folio wing night
the fugitives passed on, but al-
ready on the 27th the Russians
Estimates furnished on all kinds of showed themselves in force, while
buildings and trestles. C. P. Diaz, Mex. . c *t i ,
° _________ part of Napoleon s troops were
on one side and part on the other
of the stream. With rare cour-
age and coolness did they hold
the Russians back, in the hope of
saviner all those who were crow-
ded upon the two bridges. Until
the evening of the 28th, it was
possible, but the order then came
that on the 29th of November,
at 5 in the morning, the bridges
must be destroyed, whether all
had crossed or no. While this
disorganized mass of stragglers
was desperately struggling to
get over, the body of troops that
had been defending the eastern
or Russian side of the bridge re-
ceived orders themselves to cross,
under shelter of darkness, so as
to be safely over when the time
came to destroy it. So, when
darkness set in, these soldiers re-
tired from befoi'e the Russians
and claimed right of way across
mained in the ranks. On this
horrible night, however, their
energy was that of savages bat-
tling for self-preservation. The
weak and the wounded, women
and children, wherever they
stood in the way of the strong,
were knocked down, trampled
with a few hundred pioneers,
made these bridges in the icy
stream, watched them day and
night, kept such order as was
possible, and destroyed them
finally by order of Napoleon,
when to have left them standing
woold have exposed the whole
army to ruin. He delayed as
long as he dared, while the Rus-
sian artillery was striking in
amidst the helpless mass of
stragglers still surging across.
But at 9 the last moment had
arrived. Eble turned away his
head, and the match was laid.
The last of Napoleon’s rear
guard marched away from the
Beresina, leaving behind no one
knew how many of their fellow-
creatures, who could be seen
rushing through the flames to
soon fall screaming into the river
of ice.
How many here died piteously
is not known. The stream in
after y^ears showed islands below
the bridge where none had been
beiore. These were formed by
under foot, or kicked away over j the masses of those who strug-
the bridge side, to fall screaming | oled for life in those dreadful
amidst the cakes of ice that filled days. Ten years alter a party
BUILDER.
FRANCISCO L. PEREZ,
Notary Public.
Dealer in
Real
Office—No. 17V<>, Commercial St., Monterey
THE BLUE RIBBON
SAEOON
TRINIDAD SAN MIGUEL, Proprietor
WINES, LIQUORS and CIGARS
of the Best Brands.
FRESH BEER ALWAYS ON TAP
LADNER’S OLD STAND,
ZB-A-G-ILIE] PASS - TEX’
the stream. These were the men
who six months ago passed for
heroes, who marched m the name
of a higher civilization.
They fled from Cossacks whom
they thought to be savages, yet
they perpetrated themselves
upon their own comrades such
atrocities as only Apaches could
surpass.
On came the troops, with or-
ders to cross the bridge, but the
bridge was held by a force supe-
rior to that of those claiming
the right of way. And so it
came to a fight. The guns so
recently aimed at Russians re-
sponded now as readily when
pointed into a solid wall of fel-
low-creatures.former messmates.
A breach was made in this mass
of writhing flesh; the rest was
done with bayonets. The rear
guard corps marched on, tum-
bling into the stream everything
that stood in the way, for they
had but one night left them,
knowing that on the morrow
they could no longer hold them-
selves against the overwhelming
force of Russians.
The morrow came, and found
the bridges commanded by Rus-
sian artillery. All the arms of
Napoleon had crossed in safety,
but so far as the eye could see
were masses of human creatures
still left on the other side, all
hopelessly seeking escape from
the enemy. That Napoleon’s
army was saved here was due
almost wholly to a man of Ger-
man blood, born near Saar-
brucken, the noble Gen. Eble,
who died in a few weeks from
the effects of his exposure. He,
of Prussian officers, visiting the
battle-field, found it still strewn
with innumerable signs of the
horrible butchery that took place
here; and as though the god of
this river desired that all should
remember the lesson here incul-
cated, these islands no w blossom
in the spring-time with a flower
called forget-me-not.
Of those whose corpses lie be-
neath these flowers we can not
know the number. Even of those
who fell on the hanks the num-
bers can only be guessed.
Twenty-four thousand carcasses
were here burned by order of the
Russian governor, and at least
5,000 stragglers were made pri-
soners. When the Russian ad-
vance guard reached the place,
an eye-witness reported that all
the peasant huts in the neigh-
borhood were packed with
wounded, and that the fields
about were littered with car-
casses of men and horses frozen
stiff as they happened to draw
their last suffering breath.—Ex.
FINE PHOTOGRAPHS.
ENAMEL FINISH
CABINET SIZE, $2.50 PER DOZ.
Other sizes accordingly.
IB. CLEPP,
Old Custom House Building.
FOR SALE OR RENT.
F'OAL LAND.—-64-0 acres of superior coal
Lxlands for lease on a small royalty. Apply
to B. W.,tliis office.
T70R SALE.—A two story brick house
JL1 Containing seven large rooms, with fire
place and closet in each room, is offered foj
sale at LESS THAN COST. The property,
which includes two lots, chicken house, car-
riage house, stable, and brick cistern, is most
desirably located on Ceylon street. Apply at
this office. 2
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