The Savannah morning news., 1900-06-17
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justice, to describe how the chaplains
doctors and sttetcher b. are1s go in and
out OF the most helish fre.-not once or
twice. but all through every battle.
1t is just without the range OF fire that
you see and realize the horrors of war 1t
1t is there that the wounded crawl ana
stagger by you: It is there that they spend
their final outpour OF energy and fall down
to lie until assistance comes; Il is there
that you see the stretchers, laden with
their mangled freight, and the sound ones
bearing the wounded on their backs and
In their arms Better yet-if so cheerful
phrase is permissible In such case-to
know the brutality and woe of war, hap
pen upon q kopje that has just been
stormed or trench that has been carried.
Go to such a place to-day. twenty centu-
ries after Christ came with His message
of peace on earth and good will TO men,
and behold what you shall see.
Few GrOans.
Here" said I 10 photographer In such
place. think 1t was Belmont-"snap
this scene. Look at the wounded all over
the ground. Quick! Out with your came
ra."
"oh. can't" said he, ITS too horri-
bler'
AS you please" said. "but it's what
the public wants"
You read in the writings of those who
know nothing of war about the writings
OF the wounded and the groaning On the
battlefield. There is no writhing, and the
groans are few and faint. There was one
man who was simply chewed up by she'll
at Magersfontein, and his sufferings must
have been awful. lie kept crying. doc
tor, can't you do anything" Another
begged to be killed, and the first wounded
man | saw In the war kept saying, in ever
ca lFsrnr Wrgf1g IN.
dear, dear dear" But there Is much less
grooming than you would imaglne-very
little, in fact. Two things are so common
with the wounded as to be almost like
rules of behavior: First, they all beg for
water ct used to be cigarettes that they
asked for on the Turkish side in the last
war In EuroDe), and next they seem al
ways 20 be made gentle by their wounds.
Men of the toughest speech. profane by
second nature, cease to offend when stricb-
EN- down.
We'll, mate" sas one whose leg is shat
tered, you never know when your turn
viii come, do your"
And another simply cries, "Oh dear!
Now and then you hear, For Gods
sake, get me taken to an ambulance" but
no profanity Is intended there.
/ have had half dozen men describe
how 1t feels to be wounded. All who had
bones shattered by expanding bullets used
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sensation.
you feel" they say, exactly as II you
had received powerful shock from an
electric battery and them comes a blow
as II your foot (0r arm, or whatever part
II may be- was crushed by q stroke with
a tremendous malet." 1t is much the
same in a lesser degree n the bone is
struck by a Mauser bullet but IL the
smooth, slender. clean little shot merely
perces the flesh, burning or singing
sensation Is the instantaneous result
Lying six hours in the broiing sun was
pretty bad" said one whose arm bone
was smashed; but the really awful ex-
periende was the jolting over the rocks
when / was carried off in the ambulance"
Another man--an ofiicer-whose foot was
smashed by an explosive bullet said;
Look at my pipe. That's what / did. TO
keep from saying anything" He had bit
ten off on inch of the hardened rubber
mouthplece. That was before his wound
was dressed. The relief that is given by
the dressing OF a wound must be gigantic.
for you hear next to no groans or means.
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Cons derable dissatisfaction is ex-
pressed I'm Fort Leavenworih, Kan, over
the neglect OF the grave Of Gen. Frcder-
lex Dent In the Ma ional Cemetery ia that
place. Only wooden sab marks the
grave at present Gen. Dent was the
broi her-in-law Of Gen. Grant and dlstin-
giiished himself in the Mexican, Civil and
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