Carrizozo outlook. [volume] (Carrizozo, N.M.) 1910-1945, 1915-01-22
Wounded, Torn With Pain, SUI
fer Without a Groan.
corpselike silence Of the still Living
ParaIyxes One With the ley
Horror Of a Hideous
Nightmare.
BY J. n. Phillips.
(Chicngo Evening post.)


The ambulance trains-strings OF
rough box cars-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 hu.
man flesh writhed about and moaned,
the CHASTITY spectacle could not be so
hideous as Is this corpsellke silence OF
still living meni II paralyzes one with
the icy horror OF a nightmare. Charnel
trains, not hospital trains, those con.
voys might be called.
Two cars stand eldetracked ut the
station Of Montereau, where there 10
situated n hospital base organized by
DIR. l.. Haden Guest, the famous Eng.
llsh surgeon, and his wife, In coop
Grafton with the French Red Cross.
In one Of the cars several nurses
spend every night; In the other. two
doctors. For they must be promptly
on hand when the hospital trains come
in. | stayed with the doctors one
night.
About two In the morning-it was
black outside and bitterly cold-we
heard a commotion on the adjacent
track-whistles and the creaklng OF
brakes. And before the incoming train
Of wounded had jerked itself painfully
TO n standstill our head doctor was
hurrying up the rails. a pickering Ian
tern In hand.
"How many?" he called in French to
the guard.
About two hundred, monsieur"
came the reply from a dim silhouette,
fumbllng ut the door OF a car. THE
worst cases are in here, monsieur.
Sbme OF ems dead, | guess, by now"
The doctor clambered into the cor
and picked his way among the men
with his lantern. The nurses and o
number OF bearers with stretchers had
already gathered about the door.
The worst cases were taken out TO
AN lll,smelling freight shed across the
tracks-the emergency hospital, where
the nurses. kneeling on the ground
dressed the wounds. A hundred 9th
ers were sent uptown to the main
Montereau h%ospltal-a china factory
donated to the Red Cross by the pro.
prletors. The h%alf.dozen new dead
were laid In grimly contorted positions
on the station platform to be disposed
OF later, and then the train, still laden
with scores OF sufferers 80 racked with
pain as TO be utterly exhausted and
Indifferent to the torture Of this end.
less trip, moved onward again, It's des
tlnatlon the great hospitals at Fon'
|tainebleau.
This is a scene Of almost every
night. II Is a scene which is being en-
acted not only here at Montereau but
at scores of other hospitals.
Mrs. Guest, wife of the doctor In
charge, told me OF one French soldier
who lay IN bed with both legs and one
arm a%mputated.
"He had the face OF a saint" she
said. And the only words we evei
heard from the poor boy were apollo
giles for all the trouble he was givlnl
usl II | only had another arm ! NIGH
play cards with that fellow next me,
he would say. That would take hi,
mind on his sufferings.
1--WE would have had to amputat'
the boys other arm also, but dealt
fo~restalled us" said Mrs. GueNt.
Imagine a human head with the en-
tire face gone save for n portion OF thu
covering OF this iawl
THAT is what you would see unde.
that great bloody bandage," wills
pered Doctor Guest TO me, pointing
10 a motlonless figure. THE voca
cords we're visible when we took OF
the field dressingsl"
And In the next cot a cheerful Teu
ton was sitting up joking with an al
tendant about the eats" He insisted
that he had been served no meal 10
half an hour and was famlshed.
"That mans Ease Is simply marvel
GUS" said Doctor Guest. "He had hal
a dozen bullets In his head, yet ate
a terrible operation he has been gain
ing strength so fast we al hardl!
keep him In bed.
Last night we had an eerie expert
ence. We were suddenly awakened b.
n deep bass voice calling p~iteously
Mother. motherl' An English Tommy
shot in the head, had become insan'
and was literally an Infant crying II
the night lie died In the course Of al
hour. His mother will never know
how her brave son called upon her TO
help at the last. His was Just an OF
binary death. We have had as man.
as seven such deaths out Of twenty