Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-10-08

Rising to the emergency. represen-
fatiVcs of h United War Work Ageff-
cies have rendered service In the area
of the great explosion at Morgan that
reflected credit on their training Tor
duty in the battle zones OF rance,
In rescuing the wounded from the
fire. guiding the refugees, in finding
accommodations for them to sleep and
providing food and clothing for those
rendered homeless. the men n wo-
men workers of the Y. NJ. G. A. y;
w. G. A. Knights of Columbus y
Salvation Army came face to face with
conditions they viii be called upon 10
face Letter on across the seas.
One Young woman in Salvation
Army Uniform was knoked down by
an exploding shell while helping draS
bodies and PROSTATE IRON
the smoking ruins. was bllnde TOT
several minutes and Thought IL was
the end of me" as she related after
ward. h is Miss Ortcnsia Watkins.
from Illinois. When h recovered
from being stunned instead of fleeing.
she held her ground n continued
with her work.
Michael Craig. a Y. M. G. A. uni
formed man, who was in charge OF q
"Y" hut on the grounds of the t. A.
Cillespic Shell Loading Company.
stuck at his task of general service
until he was laid low by the concus-
sion. lie was rushed to the Keyport
hospjtal. and when that became I'M
tenable was taken to the Lakewood
base hospital, along with Father JOS
eph Miller. a Catholic priest of Nor
gan. who was injured by a shell frag-
ment While administering the last
rites to the dying.
- Among the refugees who fled from
their homes in the danger zone were
thousands of foreign born citizens
Poles, Slovaks. Lithuanians. Hungarl-
ans and Italians who couldn't
speak English and were In a
manic until women workers of the
International Institute of the Young
Women's Christian Association from
New York, Brooklyn and Newark ar
rived on the scene. Nearly q hundred
OF these young language experts CO.
operated with tho Red Cross in unit
ing family roups that had become
separated. Mrs. G. A. Hough. Jr.. OF
New York; Miss Elsa Butler. of Rah-
way, a Vassar graduate: Mrs. Helen
]. Timpo OF Newark. Miss Ethel Ca
bulk of Newark. n Miss Eleanor G.
Killer of Long Branch were among
the first on the scene doing this work.
The number of refugees who fled
from their homes - at ap-
proximately 10000. Most of them
rushed away and abandoned all their
hOuSCtlOid tiLCCtos "a OhhS -
clad. Az many as could stopped at
Perth Amboy. where 200 army cots
had been brought from Camp Rari-
tan. the soldiers there gladly giving
up their beds. These were distributed
through the Y. NJ. C. A. building. the
high school and the local Hungarian
church.
by far the majority went on to New
brunswick. Railway. Elizabeth or
Plainfeld. and even some all the way
! to New York by way of Staten Island.
In the New Jersey cities these home
less and startled people were taken In
\ charge by workers of the knights of
Coiumbus, NJ. G. A., Salvation
rmy and Z. w. G.. A.
Making their getaway as quickly as
by could, for fear that the giant
zine might let so at any time.
them had trudged as much
or twenty miles were
exhausted when taken in hand
the war work agencies. Accom-
modations were arranged for them in
\ Knights OF Columbus club rooms.
Achurches. armories and Y. NJ. c. A.
buildings.
Salvation army lassies joined