Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1915-01-20
death CHAMBERS
ARMY HOSPITALS
Miss BY Describes Scenes
in Hungarian Hospital.
10 Languages Heard.

nurses, German, Austrian, GuIitzln
HUNGARIAN and Seryian, are employ
cd, so that patients will always have
nurses who speak their language.
! Ihey have also a series of chapels.
Catholic, Protestant and Hebrew Or
| each ward are small sound-prooI
| rooms called "Death Chambers"
| Patients at the point OF death are
removed to these rooms to spare the
| feelings of their fellow comrades
! Smoking rooms, glass partitioned,
are also an adjunct to each ward.
This hospital accommodates 2,000
wounded. The kitchen is superb and
| needs a column to properly describe
it. They showed With pride large
American refrigerator. The doctors
| and nurses each have their sleeping
! eating and rest departments. One
large hall, sayly decorated with the
national colors, is used for the
amusement OF the convalescent Even
kino shows are given and concerts.
| Men were being received from a
| train, so we went down to see them
| We talked to them, as detachments
Of twenty were taken at a time to the
| bath.
cannot praise too highly the Won
derful executive ability Of those who
conceived and established the as
founding perfection of these two hos
pitfalls. Nothing is wanting to aid and
| assist nature to save and heal wha.
| man is so inhumanely torturing and
| destroying.
We had scarcely reached the AS
toria when I had a telephone call
from Dr. Macdonald
Called to Hospital.
81 want you to get in a taxi and
come hele, Miss Bly," he said, 81
have received just now the worst
cases / have ever seen in my entire
life. They may interest YOU
I rushed to the American Red
Cross hospital. It lis located in Next
CO street in a large building, former
| ly used as a home for the blind. |
flew in, the door and up the stairs
| over which floats a fifty-foot Amer
lean flag.
DR.. Macdonald, grave and sad, met
us at che head of the head of the
stairs.
Come into the operating ROOM"
most frightful case | ever saw
Mr.. Schriner, who had enough
misery for one day, had tried to in
duce me not to come. Failing he had
come along. Silently he kept at my
side.
The operating room was in confu-
sion. On the floor was blood. Fillins
pals and in piles were bloody band
| ages. ] tried not to see. ! began to
wish l had not come.
-Four American Red Cross nurses.
stood graveIy around an operating
table. DR.. Macdonald pointed to two
bandaged stumps.eI could see one
foot was gone at the ankle, the other
apparently half way to the knee
"This is a Russian" said the doctor.
"He was wounded by shot through
his body. For eight days he lay in
the trench unattended. His feet
froze. He was put on a freight train
and when we received him an hour
ago his feet had dropped off, doubt
less in the car, for we never saw
them, and the last blood the poor fell
low had was pouring from his open
veins. We carried him here. and
bandaged him up but he cannot live
many minutes longer. He has no
pulse now. Come, look at him.
A Dreadful Sight.
Come, look, reader, with me! My
whole soul shrank from the sight.
The doctor took me by the hand.
kept my eyes away from the face /
was afraid to look upon.
look at this body" said the doc
tor. looked shuddered. The
| clay-pallor of death. The ribs cut
ting the skin. Bones, bones, no flesh
| anywhere.
The head turned. Great, hallow
black eyes looked into mine Trans
fixed stood, heartsick, soul-sad.
| Those great hollow eyes searched
mine. They tried to question me.
They spoke soul language to soul.
The lips parted, a moan a grOan cf
more thon physical agony. He spoke.
could not understand. His words
were sound my ears shall never
forget. The appeal, the longing, the
knowledge!
"What does he say?" I cried, I'M
able to stand it, "Can no one under
stand? Can't you find some one to
speak to him?"
j. A nurse smoothed his forehead. An
attendant held fast the pale, pale
hands,
"'rhe attendant understands" the
doctor said; to him, "What does he
say?"
Asked for Children.
''He is asking for his children"
was the low reply.
Il The hollow, black eyes turned
again to search mine. I Gould not
Il endure their question. ] had no
answer to give.
Let re go." I said to the doctor
The low means seemed to call me
back, but I walked steadfastiy to-
ward the door and down the CORR
dor.
i Gould Emperors and Czars and
ings look on this torturing slaugh-
! ter and ever sleep again?' I asked
the Doctor
1 ",They do not loDk.. he said gently.
"Oniy by Witnessing such horrors
Can one realize Them
j, ssMiSS Bly.n cried Won I.ejdenfrosf