between Flushing, Rotterdam, and other adjacent points in
Holland. These tugs had no great accommodations for passengers
and comparatively few people escaped by this means. No trains were
scheduled to run and in despair the crowds started to cross the
bridge and make for the road to the Dutch frontier. Altogether
from 150,000 to 200,000 of the population of the city escaped by
one means or another.

During a continuous bombardment of twelve hours the cathedral stood
unharmed. The southern part of Antwerp was a desolate waste of ruins.
In some streets all the homes were ablaze, the flames leaping hither
and thither with the wind. The great oil tanks burning fiercely on
the opposite bank of the River Scheldt were fired upon by some
well-directed shots to check the blaze, a huge black volume of
thick smoke now rising from the flames. To add to the difficulties
and confusion the water supply had been cut off during the early
stages of the bombardment through the destruction of the city's
waterworks which were located in one of the suburbs to the south,
and the consequences threatened to become alarming. Everywhere
fires were burning.

This was the tragic scene when the German army entered the conquered
city of Antwerp on October 10, 1914. It is probable that a large
part of the city would have been burned, if the Germans had not
entered in time to check the conflagration. Without loss of time,
forces were put to work fighting the fires and clearing the streets,
propping up unsafe buildings and making order out of chaos, with
the usual Teuton efficiency. As soon as the bombardment had ceased
proclamations were pasted on walls and houses throughout the city
urging everyone to surrender any arms in their possession and begging
for a calm demeanor when the German troops pass through the streets.

About noon on October 10, 1914, a patrol of cyclist-mounted police
escorted the burgomaster to the gate of the city to receive the
German forces. When they entered order was restored without delay.
Soldiers were immediately detached from their special command and
formed into gangs under competent foremen and all put to work at
once each according to his trade, fitness or adaptability. The
forts that had been dismantled were hastily patched up and new guns
mounted for emergency use.

On October 11, 1914, Field Marshal van der Goltz, the Governor
General of Belgium, came from Brussels and made a tour of inspection
of the double gir