The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-16
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Doctors gave first aid treatment and
anbulances carried the victims to
hospitals.
DR.. George w. Grille. noted sur
reon and head Of the Clinic, rushed
from the operating room OF the
Clinic hospital. near by. and took
charge Of the medical aid.
White faced but calm. this war
time surgeon. decorated BY many al
lied Governments. directed the Civ
irg Of first aid and the pouring Of
oil on those burned
All through the day he labored
and at night transferred his actlVl-
tics 70 the hospitals 10 which the IN
fired had been taken.
As night fell. the morgue became
The principal seat Of tragedy.
The bodies taxed the limits OF TINS
drab. gray structure.
Police kept back the curious and
permitted only relatives 10 view the
dead.
Shrieks rose when wives, mothers
and sisters identified kin. The
boarse cries Of husbands, fathers
and brothers broke in now and
again.
DR.. Carl Welwig bent over q cot
at Mt. Sinai hospital to treat a NC
tim Of The explosion. The victim
was dead. It was his wife, technl-
clan at the Clinic hospital.
Mrs. w. L. Spellman Of Forest. O.,
sat in an automobile outside the
clinic waiting for her husband VINO
had entered to make an appointed
for her a few minutes before the
first explosion.
Il guess he is in there helping
he is so helpful she said.
Police did not tell her the truth,
that Spellman was one OF the dead.
Mrs. Cory d. Bishop. 30, of St
Joseph. Mo. was found dead out
side the building. She had been In
DR.. Charles Thompson's Office. DR..
Thompson helped another patient
to escape and then turned to find
Mrs. Bishop gone. She is believed
to have leaped from q window.
Crlic Outstanding nero
Out Of the suffering and sorrow
caused by the explosion. the figure
of q tireless surgeon in blood
splashed apron rose today as the
outstanding hero in a disaster
where heroes were numerous.
He is DR.. Grille. founder Of the
Clinic hospital. who watched the
institution that was to have been
his life monument torn by eXplo-
sion and flame while he brought all
his skill to the task of saving lives.
Haggard and gray, Grille was
found on the seventh floor OF the
hospital an hour after the explosion.
His ewes burned with the brightness
Of exhaustion as patient after pa
tient was wheeled by him, but his
hand was steady and his voice I'M
shaken.
without taking time to look up
from the injured women over whom
he leaned, scalpel in hand. Criled
told the United Press correspond
ent:
There Is nothing 1 can say now.
People are dying out there. The
only thing q surgeon can do is to try
an save their lives
Noted as Surgeon
A short time before he had been
in the adjoining clinic hospital, had
heard the boom of exploding gas
and had opened the door of his Of
flee to see a corridor already thick
with bodies of the injured
Soon he was operating and at the
same time directing the activities
of a score of other surgeons.
It was not the first time Grille
had been tested by tragedy; during
the World war his brilliant contribu-
tons to surgery won him an hon
orary fellowship in the Royal Col
lege Of Surgeons.
He is credited with having made
valuable discoveries on the reduc-
ton of shock in surgery.
Or. Charles Mayo once said:
''Some of the greatest strides in
modern medicine and surgery have
emanated from Grille and his &C.
workers at the Cleveland Clinic"
'Tt was just a s0iJ boor," was