Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-08-04 | Page 24 | Red Cross Man Tells of Paris during Air Raid

J Red Cross Man Tells of Paris Pans G During ft Air Ar Th 0 Rai J JL 11 Washington ton Aug 3 WritIng Writing of ot German air laid raid on Paris one of ot the American Red Hell Cross Inspectors gives u a L thrilling account account o of how American troops troop and nurl Red Bcd Cro Cross R workers give 1 0 aid 0 to tIme the city In such desperate moments lIe He describes an air raid I. I hi in this fashion I I ro Is there an any sound hut but the time I I I j echoes o of footsteps Not a street light j i Is lo to be e seen not nol a single ray of or light light light- I nothing but the Inkiest and amid most Ira lm- penetrable darkness Then lien all of if tho time noise of the time world lice to break bieak ak i j loose Joose clan Clang Clang-clang-clang booms boom the tho i j tocsin like like a gigantic pneumatic riveter working on a colossal bell o shrieks the siren up and down the time scale In an nn awful wall wail The Tho streets com to 0 life lire Doors open and slam shut The sidewalks alks are arc ful full of nf ghostly figures hurrying towards to the caves es where whore th the have hn fitted up cots and banks hanks The They get Ket et up UI now flOW to make a sitting place for tho the new corners comers Time The place fills up Everyone gelone looks apathetic I sleepy sleep and bored The Tho children go 10 to lo 1 sleep with their heads on their mothers mother's shoulders and amid a girl Irl In the uniform ofa of oC ofa I a n street car conductor swaps war Val yarns arns with SIth a n. in imi dingy ling blue Tn In the time last Iut raid the front trucks o of I 1 her hor r car I were thrown from the rails b by the lie displacement dis clis- placement of or air caused cauNe h by an In ing Imig torpedo The car and Its Inmates Inmate were ivere unhurt The polio looks a mite Incredulous and murmurs I 1 can an well believe c you OU mademoiselle Outside time the noise continues fora for a about out three or four minutes and then subsides as a n. new starts the starts the Archies or which guns gulls commence com corn mence menco to bark furiously from rein ro-rn half a n dozen different points rake rako the sk sky The Archies Archles continue their clamor but they are arc not firing at anything merely keeping up imp a barrage barrage barrage bar bar- rage fire to prevent pre the boche lying flying over o tho ho city Suddenly there Is an nn No more doubt as aft to where tho time boches ar are One Involuntarily ducks and tries to cover er his lI head ad with his shoulders A h hideous noise resounds up and down the deserted street- street falling failing walls and the tinkling and crash of showers o of broken glass lass and roofing tiles tUes In Through h the glass lass ana ano litter JItter of or the street an arm American Red fled Cross camoin- camoin ette elle come ploughing Its way Ono One of tho lie city firemen stands on tho the running board They stop and the fireman flash flashes s an electric lamp Jamp Into the ruins makes a n. hast hasty inspection and then runs up the street ant and dives Into the ht cave ca Anybody here from numbers 49 to 51 Cil he calls A half hal a dozen voices yell out that there isIs isIs is Js Is everybody here from those numbers num nurn- bers bore Was Vas there anyone anone left In either cither of at those buildings s There Thero is an anxious calling back bach and forth and a rapid counting of or noa noses s All An here Is th the h answer Good Not much left of ot those two buildings Dont Don't enter the ruins until they lave have been Inspected by the engineering en engineering en- en department Go to the Sisters Sis Sic of or tho the Poor if It you OU want ora ora or ora a place to sleep A wail wall and several se curses compete but the tIme fireman Is gone Iono The Tho Archies Archles have hare stopped and there are arc no more mora but people stay I In their cellars It la is only 9 o'clock land and r experience has shown that hat J and methodical boch keep coming corning back bacic again agaIr and anu until after midnight a A half haJe a mile tulle away a bright glow gets larger arid and lar r the rk sky A fire Ire has hag broTon broken larger er an an and u nS out In railroad yards anti and 13 is l making headway Several So g Jr cars can of or oi oil are arc bur bun I Ing InA fiercely and nail spreading to tj cars cars' cars merchandise Half a dozen soldiers l are working to get the lie untouched feVerishly I the fire cars aw away fro Two of the them have hava got sot how hold of o i a switch engine and are j whole strings of cars car shunting o oti onti Do OU l know now yo you anything about thet trench French engines sir asks ache the 1 brake engineer ells L 9 I 1 cant can't find the dam dam j I Tho The fire Ja h catin eating It its way ay towar toward a pier on which h stands a n line Jut of or drum drun of rui gasoline Come on boys bos Roll Boll them Ices II gas cola her here yells the corporal I the tho line of drums starts and down clown the pl I It U Is Infernal infernally trundling hot j and antI tIme the average u man do does I not net know inow Just how hot hol gasoline g can al alset get set before It ItI J begins to misbehave e lifeline I but bul the line ne flever r. r I wavers r ri i J I. I Jr R foIl em along 1 boys boys' 0 ceJ em go o. o I I time 1 J 11 lias 13 a hO KOI to 10 o die cite same lf l J Gnu Goe Home Little by by little things s becomeS become become- quieter The rile tires fires die rIle down clown Theft stop Hero here and there a work t In Ing put part party still continues Its labors IIiI ira the ruins Someone Is missing mining and andl they want to get Set him out of or a a. C cellar Now the time tocsin sounds again this th- th time with slow stat stately h measured This is Iff the lie beats beals All s signal N No Nomore 4 more flying betwee here and the tho fighting lines hInes People come ome out of ot their cellars ant and go 0 home horned A few cautious souls arc are bu busily lIr putting sheets of or paper and pieces of ot bedding across their broken windows to keep out the dreaded courant dalr dair Now and then thero there Is a small group In a at doorway recounting experiences experience Tho The boche has dropped more than one omie hundred bombs tonight many of ot them o of or the pound size elze Th The rime n net l damage e is not very ery great A few fe e houses destroyed man many windows broken a fe few victims very er very few but all too man a n. few holes blown In the I j streets s sonic some mc trees uprooted In the parks and some pansy beds obliterated I 1 Ima Imagine lne that hack back In his quarter quarters I t the Ii e boc boche h e r i I e a after acter sadly sallly catalo cataloguing his own own wounds Js writing up an ari account lecount of or his glorious nights night's work for the edification edi edi- o of the time reader render of the he His Ills ductile pen Is IB reeling off orf I The Time earth reeled and rocked an rows of ot buildings went vent down like card I houses the light of OC the flames showed stricken panic crowds surging through the streets toward the open country tho time railroad depots were l leveled led to th the ground man many dumps were Mere blown up and several se fires were seen ices e to break out in time the barracks and mill mili tary warehouses 1 f rr Tho Time would be grieved Irle beyond measure could he but but walk wall I through Tie rIme streets tonight and and j Inventory th thc net results and see th thi effect produced on t population H H. H who is now houseless shrugs s his his' sho ho l hers ders and says ms C cst le Je guerre Suerre an once more tho thc peaceful stars I down tranquilly on the tho silent client streets street rr