The doors stood open, and the windows, with the windowpanes all gone and in some instances the sashes as well, leered emptily, like eye-sockets without eyes.
So it went.

Two of the houses had caught fire and the interiors were quite burned away.

A sodden smell of burned things came from the still smoking ruins; but the walls, being of thick stone, stood.
Our poor tired old nag halted and sniffed and snorted.

If she had had energy enough I reckon she would have shied about and run back the way she had come, for now, just ahead, lay two dead horses--a big gray and a roan--with their stark legs sticking out across the road.

The gray was shot through and through in three places.