London, Jan. 29.
Reuter's correspondent has conversed with the Blucher's wounded in a hospital in Edinburgh. They talked freely, relating how their ship quivered and reeled with the recoil of her own guns and the impact of the deadly Bri broadsides.
Guns were torn from their settings and whole gun crews killed, while men hurtled from aloft bleeding or dead and others were swept from the deck like flies.
Everywhere blood was trickling. The men in authority lost their heads and, consequently, there was confusion.
One of the wounded said "Our's is a young Navy: yours has had more experience.
They left the ship in a very or-dorly manner.
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