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Show ' Surgeon Tells Oraphle Story. Dr. Ray D. Harris, a police surgeon of Dsyton, Ohio, and one of the chief workera among Uia Injured Immediately Immedi-ately after the cyclone, told a graphic story of the sufferings of the hundred hun-dred i who were hurt. "When we began to collect tha bod lea we realised for the first time the fesrful state of affairs," aald tbe physician. phy-sician. "It waa as grewsome a task as 1 ever worked at Borne of the bodies were twisted Into frightful lis pes and some bad ptecea of wreckage wood and iron driven through their bodies. Doiens were smothered to death, some were burned, still others were crushed and beaten to death by tbe flying timbers. "Every physician In the city, and even the medical students, were at work Sunday night and all day Monday. Mon-day. I Impressed two dentists myself, although I didn't want any teeth drawn. Tbey worked like Trojans, too. "Home of tha taxlcab drivers thought It waa a golden opportunity to reap a harvest, and demanded huge auma for carrying the Injured to tbe hospitals. The doctors wouldn't atand for anything any-thing like that, and I personally thrashed two drlvera who presumed to hsggle." Another husky young doctor had an argument with a chauffeur, who demanded de-manded $3 apiece for conveying two Injured women to a hospital. When be would not yield the physician seized a piece of board and knocked the man aeuseless with It Tben he took tbe chauffeur to the hospital with tbe women and ministered to blm. It Is such Incidents as this that evidence evi-dence the fearful night of terror and panic and the day of sorrow that followed. |