Bisbee daily review., 1915-11-17
WOUNDED STREAM
TO PARIS REFUGE;
SPLENDID SYSTEM
TWenty-six Trains Of Wounded
Daily Enter One Station; Sur
geOnS and Nurses Directed
Under Intricate Arrangement.


PARIS, Nov. 16.-Long training Of
wounded keep rolling into the La
Chapitre station of the Care du Nord
train after train, even after the fier-
cest fighting of Champagne has occur
red. for the ebb and tlow of the strug-
gle keeps going on with its steady
yield OF manned and stricken soldiers
The government gave the correspond
ent facilities the other day to see this
/ procession OF incoming trains, and the
methods employed for promptly hand
| ling this enormous daily thrush of
/ human freight requiring the most inn
mediate and delicate attention.
/ la Chapitre is the station in the
most northeastern section OF Paris,
nearest the fighting lines, 65 miles
away and is the natural point for
| these trains from the front toempty
into Paris Here the trains Of wound
ed averaged 26 daily. with 200 to 800
wounded on each train, even after the
| lull in the fighting, or from 5000 to
1900 wounded to be cared for daily.
When the fighting was fercest these
figures were far exceeded, and one Of
the officers stated 41,000 wounded had
been received in four days, and added
the remarkable fact that only two out
of the 1900 had died in transit
The platforms to which these
trains of wounded roll up, are all
thoroughly organized for fast and
| systematic work Near at hand is a
huge kitchen which can furnish 1000
meals on short notice, so that the
wounded may Immediately receive hot
tea and sustenance. There are many
cooks and scores of nurses ready to
carry dozens Of meals packed in wick.
er baskets. Twelve surgeons are on
duty to give first aid in a pressing
/ case, though this station is not for
J treatment of the wounded soldiers; it
is merely to receive and distribute
them to the hospitals in Paris or in
central or southern France.
A train of wounded fro mthe front
had just come in as the inspecting
party arrived under government es
cort. Some fifty ambulances were
drawn up on the platform ready tC
receive the wounded men, and already
the ambulances We're well filled ant
moving of to the various hospitals
Each ambulance received six, two
, tiers of three. the filters sliding OF
, grooves into their places in the am
= balances. Only a roll of yellow blan
/ ket appeared on the stretchers. will
here and there a face, but usual!
, the heads were covered, seeking com
, Iplete quiet. There was no complaint
no groans. Everything moved alonl
o. swiftly and with absolute precision
4 and not long after the men came from
, the trains they were on their way t,
, the hospitals
Occasionally some case needed spe
n. cial attention. one red-bearded peas
y ant soldier, well along in years, wa
/. ashen pale as he was rolled by i'm al
invalid chair to receive the care o
o surgeons. Another young soldier wa
s laughing as his chair rolled by to as
e sure the visitors that his wound wa
+ slight Most Of the men. the doctor
3. said, We're only slightly wounded ant
n there were not the narrowing scene
r as when trains bearing the desperatel,
b wounded empty into La Chapelle
n While the men were being carrie
n from the train and placed in the an
r, balances. a constant checking process
L was going on among an army of mil
L tary clerks, keeping an accurate r.
T. gister of each man, his wound whiC
n hospital was best suited TO his need
e whether his condition permitted flu
j. Their travel to the hospitals in the il
y terror of France, as there is need
avoid congestion in these Paris hos