Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-10-31
By Robert Ames.
Statement Nndc by Mr.. Ames In the Hospital.

WAS killed in the great New Orleans hurricane September 90
My body taken the morguc and the next morning had
been prepared for burial in Pottcrs Field to life
little before Of September 90 hospital with
five ribs broken of them cavcd heart head
bruised and aceracd than sixty abrasons various
parts of my body arms and egsbu am very much alive
the plain wooden coffin which had been brought to the
for my use is occupied by other poor devil.
walking III South Rampant street New Orleans, the
of September about o'clock the afternoon The
wind was blowing at rate of nearly 100 miles an hour learned
this from the official figures aerward Glass and slate and
bricks flying all about head could scarcely stand
feet sighted Moorcs veterinary hospital through the dark
which had and rushed Inside another
We hudded together in the front of the building which
constructed Of brick
Suddenly big slice of the roof lifted off by the hurr
attempted rush into the street but the whole
building down and my companion learned later
that lay covered by debris and wreckage until nearly mdnight
wn police squad of took my body and the other mans
en them o the morgue x
appears therefore, five six O'Clock
that afternoon
my trance it was, believed that
l recalled Of the falling building. 1t
seemed l endless valley with billions OF
persons trugng endless, destination 1t
anything like the orthodox idea of heaven about which had
Nor did suggest hell suppose it to the
accepted idea of pulgatory
a little pcrpexcd-thc perpexity which would be
any who find himself in the midst of bill
lions of ampn rudglng but with no idea of the
goal.
saw only men There chidrcn--no
boys girls Or babies.
tho chldren?' asked fellow pilgrim who
There children now, he replied. We all
grown. When died was an infant. y
''Dicd!' exclaimed to myself so | am dead-tha
this all these people here dead people,
remember thinking realization of the
everything seemed natural enough The strange dis
covery companion had revealed that child Immediately be-
grown up person when it dies did not asonish
when after two of cousins who died
they children and found they grown
surprised
be the dead seemed at all surprising
remember palor Of all the faces
which seemed quite be- sensations pain
emotions not hungry was not thirsty not
sleepy especially interested in where was going
hurry, and yet | felt impeled go and
on with throng which moving along One strange thing
fling yet sound voices heard and yet without
sound being said but the words
noiseesy the words moving picture
| in the world Of the living This much was well
aware Of entirely out of touch with all living things.
sunlight of the world did not feel the pressing
weight boards and beams that held crushed under their
the policemen and rmen who shouted and worked about
neither heard
was dead, and among the dead.
But suddenly all this changed became conscious of the
world Of the living could see and hear family.
Then felt cold. / felt ice tricklng sides
nude and lying a marble slab. l. tried make
cry, but could not could not eyes stir
muscle.
'Killed n the storm night me, she
Of the The other ones from the hospital Con-
SUMPTION
Two lifted my body slab the hydrant
but my chest did rise and fall to the impulse of
the respiration. Later told that when taken from
the ruins Of the veterinary hospital physician had declared