The Columbus courier. [volume] (Columbus, Luna County, N.M.) 1911-1920, 1915-01-15
CALMLY FACE DEATH
Wounded, Torn With Pain, SUI
fer Without a erOan.
corpseiiks Silence Of the sun Livino
P~araIyzes one Win TN 10y
Horror Of q Hideoua
Nightmare.

BY 3. n. PHILLIPS.
Chicago Evening Postl
Montereau. Northern France.-It Ia
the unearthly silence OF the wounded
which appalls onel
The ambulance ~traing-strinrn Of
rough box carH-pull IN from the front.
And there on the floor. amid the straw.
lie the %bandaged men. voiceless and
motionless.
II only the nOndescript Jumps OF IN.
man ncsh writhed about and moaned,
the chastity spectacle could not be so
hideous as 10 this corpsellke silence OF
still living menl Il paralyzes one with
the icy horror Of a nightmare. Cbarnel
trains, not hospital trains. those con
voys might be called.
Two carr stand s~ldetracked at the
station Of Montereau, where there ls
situated a hospital base organised by
DR.. L. Haden Guest. the famous Eng.
llsh surgeon, and his wife, In coop
GRAFTON with the French Red CrCss.
In one Of the cars several nurses
spend every night; in the other. two
doctors. For they must be- promptly
OF hand when the hospital trains come
In. / stayed with the doctors one
night.
About two in the m%orning-it was
black outside and bitterly cold-we
heard a commotion on the adjacent
track-whistles and the creaking Of
brakes. And before the incoming train
Of wounded had ierked itself painfully
TO a ~standstill our head doctor was
hurrying up the rails, a nickering Ian
tern IN hand.
How manyG" he called IN French to
the guard.
About two hundred. monsieur"
came the reply from a dim silhouette.
fumbling at the door Of a FAR. "The
worst cases are in here, monsieur.
Some Of EMS dead, I guess, by now"
The doctor clambered into the car
and picked his way among the men
with his lantern. The nurses and a
number OF bearers with Btfetehers had
already gathered about the door.
The worst cases were taken out to
M hl-cuiehiuk ANtibhA bhoN oSiSHo eho
tracks-the emergency hospital, where
the nurses, Sneeling on the ground
dressed the wounds. A hundred 9TH
ers were sent uptown to the main
/ Montereau hospital china factory.
donated TO the hea Gross py 1hs pro
prietors. The half-dozen new dead
were iAio IN sFlmly contoI'eo posI
~ 10. "a ~ ar ,rsJr sHIT Isdso
u,ith scoros ~ suTerers 90 raoted with
main AZ 10 be utterly exhausted and
Indifferent TO the torture Of this end
less trip. moved onward again, its des-
tination the great hospitals at Foa-
t~alnebleau.
rhts "a .oane NJ almost every
Disht n "a a srepe which IA beIpg en-
acted not onlv here at Montereau but
N scores Of other hospitals.
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mrs r-onoh soId,a-
~ So A. "a ,rI,h ho,b Iegs and one
49, amnntated
n -
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selu, Anu 49, 80 ono,o.
hearo Q Ine poo, o was 1iy;ns
81, Ts IL IA moline arm / might
Nav cards win hat fellow next me-.
- uo,,Id ,ov Tbnt would a K his
- ~ ne sn1er,n0s
- 49, 49, % surr,a,a
We sou,u aIso h., Soa,h
tine otne' 60, ~
iores'aiieu uS' sA'u
Imagine a human head with the en-
tire face gone save for a portion OF the
covering Of the jawI
"That is what you would see under
that great bloody bandage." whis'
pered Doctor Guest to me-, pointing