The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1918-06-13

the window. and quite as exciting as
Payne's fireworks. Between ! and 2
o'clock we called at our hospital.
house nearby had been destroyed.
but the hospital was untouched, and
the children carried into the cellar
the children carried int othe cellar
for the night. Strong cellars in these
stone houses are adequate protection
from bombs. but are useless against
aerial torpedoes. However. you may
be sure in the worst raids that we
used them as much as, possible. There
were over. as there were for those lit
tie raids in Paris. Sometimes there
would be few minutes of absolute
quiet and their of a sudden the thing
would break loose again. Mrs. Van
keuren was calmly looking up at the
gorgeous moon one night, when every
thing seemed quiet again, and Just re-
marking that it was a lovely night,
when there was a sudden explosion
and some shrapnel clattered on the
pavement III front Oh nor
RELIEF WORK
GOES ON.
So the excitement and the relief
work went along together, while the
menacing noise of the big guns on the
front kept getting louder and louder
and we began to wonder If, after all.
Arniens itself would not have to be
evacuated. A house near our ware
house was completely demolished
just pile of rubbish-killing six peo-
pie, but l decided to have our men
continue to get out relief from our
warehouse for the living, rather than
to take time off simply to dig out
dead bodies.
Mrs. Van Keuren and Miss TANNER
spent much time at the station assist
ing the French Red Cross in distrib.
uting relief to the outgoing trains and
helping with the refugees there. Mrs.
Van Keuren was talking to the Sous
Prefet when a refugee woman, seeing
her uniform, rushed up crying, "Croix
Rouge Americainei" Imagine our de-
light-one cannot imagine hers-when
we found that she was the mother of
one of the injured children in our hos
pital They had been separated in the
excitement of evacuating Nesle. Mrs.
Van Keuren, has been able to bring
about other reunions of the same kind.
MORE MONEY
AND FOOD.
On Tuesday, the Chief of the Bur
eau of Refugees; Z. T. Devine. came
up from Paris in a truck bringing US
more money, food and blankets. We
made tour of inspection toward the
front, along the road to Albert and
back around Corbie. ! wish could
write about the interesting, military
things we have seen ever since we
have been over here, and especially
during those last days in the Somue-
On our trip we were able to assist
many old, and feeble and sick refu-
gees along the road. On our return
that afternoon there was another
slight raid We visited the Prefec-
ture to see what its plans were. and
we found them there packing up, get
ting ready to evacuate the next day.
Also the French Red Cross officials
advised us to get ready TO GO. We
had conference and decided that
unless things looked better the next
day, We would at least get out all
the Red Cross women. That night.
there was another big raid with ma
chine-gun accompaniment, but not
so bad as Sunday night. although
more buildings in the center of town
were destroyed, including the Prefec-
ture, and the Prefet's house. The Pre-
fet was injured. Our Red Cross build
ings had a few hicks made in them.
AMiENS is
EVACUATED.
Wednesday morning was cold. gray
ghastly under the loud menace of the
guns, and the occasional explosions
of bombs or shells in the town.
Wounded soldiers and weary strag-
glers without equipment were wander
ing in from the front line. From ev-
cry house came groups of people with
bundles, who, having closed the shut
ters and turned the key OF their de-
serted homes. were thus changed in
a moment from comfortable city resi-
dents to homeless refugees with
bundle on their backs. and their faces
toward the road leading to the un-