Bisbee daily review., 1915-05-05
AMERICAN GIRL TELLS OF HER EXPERIENCE
 AT BATTLE FRONT
Red Cross Volunteer Worked with Energy Over Her First Patient and was Shocked ct Surgeons Haste.

LONDON. May 4-Au American eir who recently volunteered for service with Red Cross ambulance in Bel gium sends the following account of her first case:
 The commandant doctor with whom I was assigned to work had talk en me far up toward the front where Belgium battery was stationed While he attended 10 some uning injuries, there came the sound of can nonading, and news that the Germans were attacking the very section where We were working
 Suddenly at what seemed the last minute of safety. two Belgian stretcher-bearers. without stretcher. rushed up to me They said there was a man badly wounded somewhere up the road. | found a atretcher and went off with them to look for him.
 We went on and on. II probably wasn't more than 800 yards. but it seemed impossible to find the house. Then some women came running and pointed out the place The stretcher bearers hurried off with their stetuL CT. l followed
 The man, horribly hurt with a wound like a red pit below his shoulder blades, was brought and laid on the stretcher He lay there quiet ly on his side, in a posture of utter resignation to anguish.
 He was a Belgian peasant clumsily built; he had a broad, rather ugly face, narrowing suddenly as the fringe of his whiskers became a little straesling beard. But to me he was the most beautiful person ! had eyre seen. ] loved him. He was my first wounded man
 "l tried-I still try-to persuade my self that if ] hadn't bullied my two bearers and repulsed an attempt to get my stretcher away for some other patients, he would have been left be- hind in that little house We got him out of the yard all right, and on the paved road Then, to my horror, the bearers dumped him down on the paw ing stones. They said he was much too heavy. They couldn't possibly car rJ him unless they rested
 "I didn't think it was exactly the moment for resting, and told them SO in several languages The Germans were likely to come around the turn in the road at any time. You never know!
 But the bearers stood stolidly in the middle of the road and m0pped their faces and puffed The situation began to be as absurd and terrible as a nightmare. So ] grabbed on one end of the stretcher and said 1 would carry it myself l said ] wasn't very strong, and perhaps couldn't do it, but anyhow. l would try
 "They picked it up at once then, and started off at a good swinging trot over the rough paving stones, jolting my poor patient horribly ] suggested that they walk on the smooth path at the side. They hailed this suggestion as a most brilliant and original idea
 As my patient was brought into the village where the battery was sta toned the ambulance had got its wounded and was ready to go. But he had to have his wound dressed He lay there in the middle of the street and l had to watch while the surgeon stuffed his wound with antiseptic gauge I had always supposed that the dressing of a wound was a eau tious and delicate process. But it wasn't. here was a careless audacity about it. The surgeon worked rapidly unmoyed, as if he were stufnng an old crate with straw And it was all over in a moment or two. T here seemed something indecent in the haste with which my Belgian was disposed of
 "Then the surgeon remarked casu- ally that my patients wound didn't amount to much It looks worse than it really is," he said. l felt hurt, as if this beloved person had been slight ed. also as if there had been some sub tie disparagement of my ind"
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