Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1918-07-19

for patients" Generally the nurses
were looking the other way when one
of these night raids started. | hope
this information will get none of them
into trouble. but | cannot resist the
temptation to let the commandant |
know that occasionally we put 1t over
on him.
One afternoon received u note,
through our underground channel, from
my female visitor, asking me to attend
n party at her house that night. j
answered that she could expect me and
TO meet me at certain place on the
road well known by all patients, and
some visitors. as lover the wall" l
/ told her would be on hand ut seven
thirty.
About SEVENTEEN sneaked my
ovcrcoat and cap out of the ward and |
hid It In the bushes. Then l told the |
nurse, particular friend of mine, that |
| was going for walk in the rose gar |
den. She wiuked and knew that ev-
erything was all right on her end.
Going out of the ward, slipped into |
the bushes and made for the wall. 1t |
was dark as pitch and / was cropping
through the underbrush, when sudden
ly / stepped into space and felt myself
rushing downward, horrible bump,
and blackness. When l came to my
wounded shoulder was hurting horri |
bly,. was lying against circular
wall of bricks, dripping with moisture,
and far away could hear the trickling
of water. l had in the darkness fallen
into an old disused well. But why
wasn't ] wet? According to all rules
/ should have been drowned. Perhaps
; was and didn't know 1t.
As the shock of my sudden stop
-, gradually wore off Ii came to me that
was lying on ledge and that the
least movement on my part would pre-
/, cipltate me to the bottom of the well.
struck match. In its faint glare
saw that l was lying in circular
hole about twelve feet deep-the well
had been filed in The dripping | had
. heard came from water pipe over on
: my right.
with my wounded shoulder 1t was
impossible to shiny up the pipe.
could not yell for help, because the
rescuer would want to know how the
accident happened. and l would be
hailed before the commandant on
;, charges. / just had to grin and bear
> II, with the forlorn hope that one or
; the returning night raiders would pass
; and could give him our usual signal
of "siss-s-s-s." which would bring him
10 the rescue.
Every half-hour l could hear the
clock in the village strike, each stroke
II bringing forth mufiled volley of
curses on the man who had dug the
Y well.
i After two hours / heard two men
/ talking in low voices. l recognized
u Corporal Cook, an ardent might raid
err" He heard my "siss-s-s-s" and
came to the edge of the hole. / eX-
u planned my predlcament and amid lot
u of impertinent remarks, which at the
4 time did not resent, was soon fished
u out.
u Taking off our boots, we sneaked into
IL the ward. / was sitting on my bed II
" the dark, just starting to undress
&c when the man next to me, "Ginger'
It Phillips whispered, "Op II, Yank, err
comes the matron."
~ / Immediately got under the cover
and feigned sleep. The matron stoo,
talking in low tones to the night nurs
-, and fell asleep.
W When / awoke in the morning tn
~ night sister, an American, was bendin
70 over me. An awful sight met my eyes
~, The covarlet on the bed and the sheet
Il a .slt
Nv she was a good sport all right, am
hustled to get clean clothes and sheet
so that no one would get wise, BUT so
her own" she gave me II good tOngu
-, flashing but did not report me. One o
-. the Canadians in the ward describe
az her as being IA Jake of n good fe
low"
10 Next visiting day / had an awfu
~ time explaining to my visitor why
- had not met her at the appointed tim
~ and place.
., And for week every time | passe
~, n patient he would call, swell, wei
,.s here's the Yank. Hope you are fee
q, ing well, old top"
The surgeon in our ward was n
-, American, n Harvard unit man, name
81, Frost. We ncknamed him "Jac
Frost" He was loved by all. If
an Tommy was to be cut up he had no oil
10 lection to undergoing the operation
-, "Jack Frost was to WELD the knit
49, Their confidence in him was patheu
g. He was the best sport have ever me
ma One Saturday morning the command
- ant and some high up" officers wei
inspecting the ward, when one OF II
-, patients who had been wounded in IL
n head by bit Of shrapncl, fell on IL
floor in fit. They brought him roun
49,, and then looked for the ward order
49,, to carry the patient back TO his be
=, at the other end of the ward The o
' derby was nowhere to be fOund-lil
o.. our policemen, they never are whC
'"' needed. The officers were at lo