A clear statement of the outrages at Dinant, which many travelers will recall as a singularly picturesque town on the Meuse, is given by one witness, who says that the Germans began burning houses in the Rue St. Jacques on the 21st of August, and that every house in the street was burned.  On the following day an engagement took place between the French and the Germans, and the witness spent the whole day in the cellar of a bank with his wife and children.  On the morning of the 23d, about 5 o’clock, firing ceased, and almost immediately afterward a party of Germans came to the house.  They rang the bell and began to batter at the door and windows.  The witness’s wife went to the door and two or three Germans came in.  The family were ordered out into the street.  There they found another family, and the two families were driven with their hands above their heads along the Rue Grande.  All the houses in the street were burning.  The party was eventually put into a forge where there were a number of other prisoners, about a hundred in all, and were kept there from 11 A.M. till 2 P.M.  They were then taken to the prison.  There they were assembled in a courtyard and searched.  No arms were found.  They were then passed through into the prison itself and put into cells.  The witness and his wife were separated from each other.  During the next hour the witness heard rifle shots continually, and noticed in the corner of a courtyard leading off the row of cells the body of a young man with a mantle thrown over it.  He recognized the mantle as having belonged to his wife.  The witness’s daughter was allowed to go out to see what had happened to her mother, and the witness himself was allowed to go across the courtyard half an hour afterward for the same purpose.  He found his wife lying on the floor in a room.  She had bullet wounds in four places, but was alive and told her husband to return to the children, and he did so.  About 5 o’clock in the evening he saw the Germans bringing out all the young and middle-aged men from the cells, and ranging their prisoners, to the number of forty, in three rows in the middle of the courtyard.  About twenty Germans were drawn up opposite, but before any thing was done there was a tremendous fusillade from some point near the prison and the civilians were hurried back to their cells.  Half an hour later the same forty men were brought back into the courtyard.  Almost immediately there was a second fusillade like the first and and they were driven back to the cells again.  About 7 o’clock the witness and other prisoners were brought out of their cells and marched out of the prison.  They went between two lines of troops to Roche Bayard, about a kilometer away.  An hour later the women and children were separated and the prisoners were brought back to Dinant, passing the prison on their way.  Just outside the prison the witness saw three lines of bodies which he recognized as being those of neighbors.  They were nearly all dead, but he noticed movement in some of them.  There were about 120 bodies.  The prisoners were then taken up to the top of the hill outside Dinant and compelled to stay there till 8 o’clock in the morning.  On the following day they were put into cattle trucks and taken thence to Coblenz.  For three months they remained prisoners in Germany.