The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-01-03

teLS were rlduleO, some small tents
were blown up.
The officers and men slept out in
the open fields for safety. The next
night the Germans attacked two his
pitfalls to which the Americans had
moved the wounded and were thus
compelled to close one of these Ravens
Later CASTOR was stationed with a
hospital in a little ruined village.
A German gun, after firing around
the villaged pumped two big sneiis
into the hospital which was filled to
capacity with badly wounded men, the
kind of cases that have just fighting
chance to live.
Two of these men We're killed out
right and five were wounded gain
For a wonder none of the nurses was
burt. Says CASTOR:
"Can you imagine anything more
terrible than to be wounded badly and
under fire? The 80 or SO cases were,
course, so terrified that they would
have killed themselves worrying, so
that the hospital had to be emptied at
once. We worked until midnight
moving them out of range. 1t was
mean work, for the cases were all
painful and the roads bad. / had tic
go slowly for five kilometers and at
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cry bump"
But the worst experience was that
of u. S. Base Hospital No. 8, in charge
Of the famous DR.. Harvey Gushing OF
Harvard. Os Sept. 9 last, the hos
pital camp was hit five times in one
, night. The attack took place at IL
at night just when the wards were
all quiet and the officers were about
to retire
Officers quarters consisted Of a big
mess tent and some 80 bell tents.
Warning had been received that Ger
man raiders were on the way and
all the lights In the district were out.
Lieutenant William Fitzinmons had
been aroused. He came to the door
Of his tent and called to one OF the
sergeants. Just then bomb dropped
at his feet and literally blew the lieu
tenant to pieces. Lieutenant Clar-
ence Mcclure of Kansas City. was
| blown out of his bunk in the next
tent receiving wounds in the shoulder.
arm and thigh. His tent had 400 holes
in It.
sitting in his tent writing, got 4
deep chest wound and Lieutenant
I Smith got a wound in the knee.
ward tents and the next dropped on
an orderly named Tugo, fatallp wound
ing him, the explosion being severe
enough to knock down the nurse In
charge, Miss Parmelee. Fourteen
British Tommies were rewounded.
The dfth and last bomb struck the
| reception tent, usually the most crowd
| ed place, there being in ordinary
| times, ambulance men, orderlles.
| Observation-Disclosures medical men end
| the wounded. There was no one in
the tentatth time but officials.
| Sergeant Edwards hard the earlier
explosions. Shouting a warning, ne
got up from the seat he was occupy
/ ing and rushed to the tent door. Bug
Ter Woods Of the regular army took
/ the seat, thanking Edwards for IT,
He had badly sat down when he was
/ killed by an explosion, as was Private
Aubrey Mcleod lost both his legs and
| Private Mason was hurt.
| After the attacks We're all over there
the wounded There was no electric
] current and operations were perform.
/ ed by the dim light Of candles and
lanterns.
| Despite her own narrowing exper-
fence Miss Parmelee went right to
work. When she started to take the
pulse of a patient she found that mel
watch had been cut away from It's
strap After working all night, sne
quietly reported herself to the operat-
ing room the next day and had E
fragment removed from her eye-uo
There were about q dozen holes CUT
In her clothes by flying shell naS-
i menta.
/ Private Mason went to work carry