Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-01-02
SCENES IN HOSPITAL.
incidents Of the Search for Missing
Relatives.

| Relatives.
| Chicago. Jan. lin the half dozen
hospitals in which are scores of those
who were carried or made their way
out of the i'll theater alive, the
tOenimhiug 81 horror gave way
at times yes,e under the stimulus
| of orderly acsiyi.y and hope for the
recovery for the Injured ones. For not
until then had the distinction between
| the living and the dead victims been
clearly drawn, so doubtful was their
condition when left at the hospital
doors
But II there was more of orderliness
within, from without the turmoil of the
hundreds seeking missing or MANNED
relatives and friends came with Ill
the more telling effect.
AT the Samaritan hospital. which
holds the largest number of the main
ed. curious crowd waited while the
physicians and nurses, who nad not
closed their eyes in the twenty-four
hours. toiled among the injured and
answered the queries OF the bereaved
with gen,leness that was almost su-
perhuman in the face of events.
He was little chap. hardly 13 years
old. Running up the steps. he pushed
his way past the women standing in tn,
hall and burst into the office.
Can you tell me where my brother
Johnny Leonard Is? he asked. HE
hasn't come home yet, and I've looked
everywhere"
Not here" the man with the list
said.
The little fellow began to push his
way out. though ne was urged to stay.
LET me go!" he shrieked NO! No!
won't stay. won't go home till find
him."
The big doctor with the board who
was numb with work and the loss of
sleep. caught him and held him tight In
his arms. while the tears streamed
down his cheeks. The women who
came in automobiles sobbed and turn
ed away.
For five minutes the eouanimity of
the whole hospital was shattered until
the little fellow was put in charge of a
messenger 10 be taken to his home at
Twenty Second street and Wabash
avenue.
In the crowded rooms up stairs seen
es almost as affecting We're enacted
thruout the day. One woman whose
face was covered with hsndage lay
suffering. Beside her sat a friend.
waiting for some sign of returning con-
sciousness AS her eyelids fluttered
and opened he bent over her.
Its all right he whispered. "rhey
are all safe"
The patient. unable 10 speak or TO
waap raised herself Utmost erect ana,
csasping her arms about the mans
neck. held min silently. in spite of the
bandages. while he sobbed like child.
At ST. Luke's there were more in the
morgue than in the hospital While
the rush of persons seeking news of
their relatives was greatest a nurse
entered the Office and saii TO the clerk:
That woman Up stairs. a Mrs.
Holmes / think. has died. Where does;
she live?"
. Son Was Waiting for News.
A young man in the corner turned.
"At 61A3 Yale av.nHe,'
Are you the undertaken"
No" ne said. simply. Cunning away
again: I'm her SON
And so the terrible nnnotony of the
nay's events Vent on Same came with
only tn. most meaesr hQpe of fading
their loved ones OtheTsS came lasien
With fawsrs ARD still others waited
and watched ard aided without ques-
ton of name or condition., so COM
pietsly did this catastrophh brig nut
the sense of brotherhood im humanity.