"Get onto the ice, over the ice! Go on! Turn! Don't you hear? Go on!" innumerable voices suddenly shouted after the ball had struck the general, the men themselves not knowing what, or why, they were shouting.

One of the hindmost guns that was going onto the dam turned off onto the ice.

Crowds of soldiers from the dam began running onto the frozen pond.

The ice gave way under one of the foremost soldiers, and one leg slipped into the water.

He tried to right himself but fell in up to his waist.