The forts do not show much damage from the outside, but on entering them a very vivid iden is gained as to the effect of modern shell fire, The place was wrecked, and mutilated men and horses were thickly strewn over the blood-stained ground. The visitors, after the fight, made quite a harvest of mementoes, and we wore shown yesterday a drum, a swal bayonet, and packets of gun fittings, portions of shell and other grim relics of the affray. These were taken from the fort, including also a crystal cap button and red tassel, that were lying near one of the dead.
The C.M.S. Yunching, during the early part of the fight, found that the big projectiles fell unpleasantly near her, and her captain thought it wise to shift his moorings and get out of the line of fire.
DAMAGE ON SHORE, The effect of the shell-fire from the ships was terrific. A number of foreign houses ashore suffered severely—one indeed, that of Mr. Limberg, being entirely destroyed. One shell went right through one of the Tangku hotels. The shell that smashed Mr. Limberg's house also killed three people, presumably Chinese.
It is reported that the commander of the German gunboat Iltis has lost both his legs, being wounded by the fire from the forts.
The U.8.8. Monocacy had one shot that went through her pinnace and her bulwarks.
The Hsinfung, in view of the situation, has brought back her original cargo from Shanghai, and also some 249 Chinese passengers, men and women, young and who were busy yesterday getting their goods and chattels ashore.
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