Shells still were falling and houses as yet intact, and those partly destroyed were empty.

You saw pitiful attempts to save the pieces.

In places, as though evictions were going forward, chairs, pictures, cooking-pans, bedding were piled in heaps.

There was none to guard them; certainly there was no one so unfeeling as to disturb them.
I saw neither looting nor any effort to guard against it.

In their common danger and horror the citizens of Rheims of all classes seemed drawn closely together.