sufficient to torture the nerves of the strongest.
Suddenly, everyone seemed to be on fire. The 20-acre space was one mass of livid flames as they danced demoniacally over the deadly work they made of mother and infant, "parent and child, master and apprentice. The wind which had now reached the intensity of a typhoon roared and whistled in fiendish glee at the successful manner in which the flames tortured these unfortunate thousands before plucking their souls out of their burnt and mangled bodies of flesh, When the curtain of Darkness had lifted, the gruesome scene was fearful to behold. In one spot there were a score or more of persons who had tried to die standing erect amd had for that purpose ranged themselves against some big mocks' in the place. The voices heard singing Kuni Ga Yo (Japan's national song) and uttering faint banzais (cheers) for the Emperor just before the finale came must have belonged to these brave men.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.