Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-11-07
NO TIME IS LOST CARING
FOR WOUNDED SOLDIERS
Long Trains Bearing Thousands OF
Injured Daily Roll Into La Cha
pitrc Station at Paris.
WORK IS DONE METHoDICALLY
Doctors and Nurses Thoroughly Or
gained to Perform Duties Quickly
and Observation-Disclosures Handle
1900 Patients in Single Day.

PARIS, November 6.--Long trains OF
wounded keep rolling into the La
Chapitre Station of the Care du Nord (;
train after train, even after the iiercest
lighting of Champagne has occurred
for the ebb and flow of the struggle
of manned and stricken soldiers The
government gave the correspondent
facilities the other day to see this pro-
ccssion of incoming trains and the
methods employed for promptly hand
ling this enormous daily thrush Of
human freight requiring the most i'm
mediate and delicate attention
La Chapitre is the station i'm the most
northeastern section OF Paris. nearest
the lighting line, SiXty-five miles away
and is the natural point for these trains
from the front to empty into Paris
Here the trains of wounded averaged
twenty-siN day, with 200 to 800
wounded on each train. even after the
luil In the lighting. or from 500 to
$500 wounded to be cared for daily
When the lighting was fiercest, these
figures were far exceeded. and one OF
the officers stated that A. 900 wounded
had been received in four days, and
added the remarkable fact that only
two out of the $1,000 had died in transit
THINGS MOVE SWIFTLY
AND WITH PRECISION
The platforms to which these trains
of wounded roll up are all thoroughly
organized for fast and systematic work
Near ut hand is huge kitchen, which
can furnish 1000 meals on short no.
tice. so that the wounded may immc-
diately receive hot tea and sustcnance
There are many cooks, and scores OF
nurses ready TO carry dozens of meals
packed in wicker baskets. Twelve
surgeons are on duty to give first aid
in a pressing case, though this station
is not for treatment OF the wounded;
1t is merely 10 receive and distribute
them To the hospitals in Paris or in
Central or Southern France
y train of wounded from the front
mad Just come in the inspecting
party arrived under government escort
Some fifty ambulanccs were drawn up
on the platform ready To receive the
wounded men, and already the amhu-
lances were we'll filled and moving off
TO the various hospitals. Each amhu-
lance received six, two tiers of three,
the filters sliding on grooves into their
places in the ambulances. Only n roll
of yellow blanket appeared on the
stretchcrs. with here and there Il face,
but usually the heads were covered.
seeking complete quiet. There was no
complaint; no groans. Everything
moved along swiftly and with absolutc
precision. and not long after the men
came from the trains they were on
their way to the hospitals.
ONLY TWO HOURS ARE
NEEDED TO EMPTY TRAIN
Occasionally some case needed spe-
cial attention. One red bearcd peasant
soldier. well along in years, was ashcn
pale rs he was rolled by in an inRalid
chair to receive the care OF surgeons.
Another young soldier was laughing
as his chair rolled by. to assure the
visitors that his wound was slight.
Most of tho men, the doctors said.
were only slightly wounded and there
were not the narrowing scenes as when
trains bearing the desperately wounded
empty into La Chapellc.
1--WE find that two hours suircos to
dispose OF the most difficult trainload
of wounded" said the officer as the last