Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1915-01-13
Wounded, Torn With Pain. Suf-
fer Without a Groan.
CorpseIike Silence Of the Still Uivinq
Paralyzes One With the ley
Horror of a HIdeous
Nightmare.
BY j. n. PHILLIPS.
Chicago Evening PostJ

HohteIeau, northern France.-t is
the unearthly silence of the wounded
which appalls one!
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.
III only the nondescript Jumps OF hui
man flesh writhed about and moaned.
the CHASTITY spectacle could not be so
hideous as is this corpselke silence OF
still living men! 1t paralyzes one with
the icy horror of nightmare Charnel
trains. not hospital trains. those con
voys might be called.
Two cars stand sidetracked at the
station of Montereau. where there Is
situated hospital base organized by
Dr. l.. Haden Guest. the famous Eng
lish 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 creaking OF
brakes. And before the incoming train
of wounded had jerked itself painfully
to standstill our head doctor was
hurrying up the rails, 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.
fumbling at the door of a car. THE
worst cases are in here, monsieur.
| Some of ems dead. guess, by now"
The doctor clambered into the car
and picked his way among the men
with his lantern. The nurses and a
number of bearers with ST. cheers had
already gathered about the Jor
The worst cases were taken out to
an ill-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 hospital china factory,
donated to the Red Cross by the pro-
prietcrs. The half-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 so racked with
pain as to be utterly exhausted and
Indifferent to the torture of this end
less trip. moved onward again. its des-
tination the great hospitals at Fon-
| tainebleau
This is a scene OF almost every
night. II is 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 amputated.
"He had the face OF a saint" she
| said. And the only words we ever
heard from the poor boy were apollo
gies for all the trouble he was giving
US! If only had another arm | might
play cards with that fellow next me-
he would say. That would take his
mind on his sufferlngs
we would have had to amputate
the boys other arm also, but death
fOrestalled u.s." said Mrs. Guest
Imagine q human head with the en-
tire face gone save for portion of the
covering Of the Jaw
THAT is what you would see under
| that great bloody bandage." wills
/ pered Doctor Guest to me. pointing
to motionless figure. The vocal
cords were visible when we took on
the field dressings"
And in the next cot a cheerful leu.
ton was sitting up Joking with an at
! tendant about the eats" He insisted
that he had been served no meal for
| half AN hour and was famished
! "That mans case is simply marvel
Gus" said Doctor Guest "He had half
dozen bullets in his head. yet after
a terrible operation ne has been gain
/ ing strength 80 fast we can hardly
keep him in bed
Last night wo had an ecrie expcri
ence We we're suddenly awakened by
deep bass voice calling piteously
Mother. mother!' An English Tommy o.
! shot In the head. had become insane
and was literally an infant crying iu
/ Tire night he died iii the course OF an
/ hour His mother will never knoR
/ how her brave son called upon her for
help at the last Hls was just an or
binary death We have had as many
as seven such deaths ont OF twenty
FIVE beds in one night"