These new troops hurrying into the town in the midst of the uproar were infected by the panic in their turn and flung themselves into the fighting. “On August 25th,” states one of them in his diary,[194] “we hold ourselves on the alert at _Grimde_ (a sugar refinery); here, too, everything is burnt and destroyed. From _Grimde_ we continue our march upon Louvain; here it is a picture of horror all round; corpses of our men and horses; motor-cars blazing; the water poisoned; we have scarcely reached the outskirts of the town when the fusillade begins again more merrily than ever; naturally we wheel about and sweep the street; then the town is peppered by us thoroughly.” In the _Rue Léopold_, leading from the _Rue de la Station_ into the _Place du Peuple_, “at 8.0 o’clock exactly a violent fusillade broke out.” The newly-arrived troops, who had been under arms since the alarm at 7.0 o’clock, “took to flight as fast as their legs could carry them. From our cellar,” states one of the householders on whom they had been billeted,[195] “we saw them running until they must have been out of breath.” There was a single shot, followed by a fusillade and machine-gun fire, in the _Rue des Joyeuses Entrées_.[196] Waggons and motor-cars were flying out of the town down the _Rue de Parc_, and soldiers on foot down the _Rue de Tirlemont_.[197] In the _Rue des Flamands_, which runs at right-angles between these two latter roads, “at ten minutes past eight, a shot was fired quite close to the _Institut Supérieur de Philosophie_” (now converted into the _Hôpital St. Thomas_). “We had scarcely taken note of it,” states one of the workers in the hospital,[198] “when other reports followed. In less than a minute rifle-shots and machine-gun fire mingled in a terrific din. Accompanying the crack of the firearms, we heard the dull thud of galloping hoofs in the _Rue de Tirlemont_.” Mgr. Deploige, President of the Institute and Director of the Hospital, reports[199] that “a lively fusillade broke out suddenly at 8.0 o’clock (Belgian time), at different points simultaneously--at the _Brussels Gate_, at the _Tirlemont Gate_, in the _Rue de la Station_, _Rue Léopold_, _Rue Marie-Thérèse_, _Rue des Joyeuses Entrées_, _Rue de Tirlemont_, etc.[200] It was the German troops firing with rifles and machine-guns. Some houses were literally riddled with bullets, and a number of civilians were killed in their homes.”