New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-26
SAVE WOUNDED UNDER
SHELLS AS CITY FALLS
Lady Dorothie Fielding and Cleeson, an American i'ep
Lieutenant de Brocquevies Hospital Corps IN nr'hs
Rescue Work Under Fierce Fire at Dixmude.

fDy Cable 10 Tho Tribune
London, Oct "a correspondent
of "The Daily Chronicle" sends the ioi-
lowing vivid description OF the worh
Of hospital corps. His dispntch was
dated Furnos. Octover q.
The staff Of tho English hospital AT
tached 10 a mobile column for heid
work has arrived here with a convoy
of ambulanccs and motor cars. 1hic
little party of doctors, nurses, stre'cner
bearers and chsuffeurs are under tne
direction of DR.. Bevis and DR.. Munroe'
They have done splendid work IN Bel
GUM. Many Of them were in the siege
of Antwerp.
Miss MacNaughton, known TO Eng
lish readers under the name OF Chris-
tiana McNab, was one OF the women
who went through this great test OF
courage, and Lady Dorothie Fielding
second daughter Of the Earl OF Dem
bigh, won everybody's love by her gsi-
lantry and plucky devotion to duty IN
many perilous hours. This girl taxes
all risks with laughing courage one
has been under fire in many hot skir-
mishes and helped bring away wounded
from the lighting around Client when
her own life might Nave paid the for
felt for her defiance Of bursting shells
This morning the flying column OF
the hospital was preparing to set OUT
in search Of wounded men on the nring
line under the direction Of Lieutenant
De Brocaueville, son Of the Beigiah
War Minister. De Brocqueville. very
cool and debonair, was arranging the
order Of the day with DR.. Munroe.
Lady Dorothie Fielding and two other
ladies in field kit stood by the cars,
waiting for the password. There were
four stretcher bearers, including MT:
Gleason. an American, who has worked
with this party around Client and Ant.
werp, proving himself TO be man OF
calm and quiet courage at the critical
moment and always ready to take great
risks in order TO bring in stricken
man.
TO Tend Wounded at Dixmude.
II was decided to take three ambu-
lances and two motor cars, but he
Brocqueville anticipated heavy days
work. The column set out before noon,
winding it's way through the streets OF
Furnes. It's object was to get into DIX
nude, where were many wounded. IL
was about sixteen kilometres away
from Furnes.
Gradually the sound of the great
guns, which for the last hour or two
had been firing necessarily. grew
heavier. On the way many women and
children were passed. They were leav.
ing for some place further out OF
range. Poor old grandmothers. in black
bonnets and skirts, trudged under the
lines of poplars with younger women,
who clasped their babes tight In one
hand while with the other they carried
heavy bundles of household goods.
Along the road came German prison.
ors. marching rapidly between mounted
guards. Many Of them were wounded,
and all of them had wild, famished,
terrorstricken look. There was saw
age glare in their eyes, something
beastlike and terrible in their gaze.
like that of hunted animals caught III
trap.
AT turn in the road the battle could
be seen. The column was now IN the
zone of fire Away across the helds wa ,
q line of villagers, with the town OF
Dixmudc a little to the right, perhaps
two kilometres eway.
From each little town smoke was rls-
ing in separate columns, which met at
the ton in a great pail of smoke. ike
heavy black cloud cresting above the
light on the horizon. At every moment
this blackness wSs frightened oy pun
of electric blue, extraordinarily VlVlu
as shells burst in the air.
From the mass of houses In eacn
town came jsbs of flame following the
explosions, which sounded with terrihc
| thudding shocks upon a line or htteen
| Kilometres. There was an lncessan'
cannonade. In every town there was
hell. The furthest villages we're al
ready alight.
Nurses See Convoy Blown Up.
/ Only a kilometre away, across the
/ fields to the left, there were Belgian
! batteries at work and rife fire from
many trenches. The hospital was
caught between the two fires, and Bel
gian and German shells came screech-
| ing across the nurses heads. The
e.my's shells were dropping quite
close BY, ploughing up the fields with
orest pits. TheJ could be heard burst
ing and seen to scatter and burrow.
In front on the road lay dreadful!
barrier. A she'll from the foe had
fallen right on top OF an ammunition
convoy. Four of the horses had been
blown to pieces and lay strewh across
the road. The ammunition wagon had
been broken into fragments and
smashed and burned TO cinders by the
explosion of its own shells. The body
of Belgian soldier lay cut in half by
great fragment of steel. Further
along were two other dead horses.
Two of the ambulance cars were left
in charge of Lady Dorothie Fielding
and her two nurses. Two other ambu-
lances went OIL, commanded BY Lieuten-
ant de Brocquevile and Dr.. Munro.
Mr.. Gleeson sat in a narrow space be-
tween the stretchers, and over his
shoulder talked in a quiet voice OF the
task ahead.
Falling Walls in Dixmude.
The car went forward at what
seemed d crawl, though it was Il fair
pace. Shells were bursting all around.
On all sides shrapnel bullets sprayed
the earth. But the ambulance got into
Dixmude without mishap.
The town was place of death and
horror. The streets we're utterly de-
serted and wrecked from end to end
as though by an earthquake. Inces-
SAINT explosions of shell fire crashed
down the walls which still stood. Great
gashes opened in the walls, which then
toppled and fell. A roof came tum-
bling down with an appallinp CHATTER