| Show MARYSVALE NURSE HOME FROM EUROPE miss ella saw service near french lines IN THE AMERICAN CORPS scenes witnessed in field hospital give idea of war horrors relates her experiences perien ces presh fresh from the battle front in northern france miss ella of salt lake returned arned to this city yesterday to become superintendent of one of the departments part ments of holy cross hospital miss I 1 is s a salt lake girl girla a graduate of the holy cross hospital for nearly a year past she has been at staples Et aples france with the british expeditionary force nursing the wound wounded ed soldiers at a general field hospital thirty five miles from the firing line A year ugo ego miss was taking a post poi graduato course in nursing at a hospital in ChI chicago tago A request came for an american volunteer hospital unit to go to the front miss and some of her friends volunteered aad on june 13 of last year sailed from ne new IN york for london they were sent from england to france and on july 4 began work from that time until marah 13 of this year miss was kept busy day and night at the hb hospital spital of her experience at the front miss said last night with the exception of a british colonel one a british captain some british soldiers to act as orderlies and the british wounded everything about our hospital was Ame american there were seventy five american nurses arid thirty two american doctors we were only thirty five miles behind the he firing line and english canadian australian scotch and irish soldiers serving with the british troops in flanders were brought to us our hospital 1500 and was nearly always filled about half our cases were medical that is they were patients suffering from diseases disease gas poisoning or other forms of illness not requiring the attention of a surgeon the rest were surgical cases including all of those suffering fer 1 ing from bullet wounds when we first reached the hospital a large number of our cases were of soldiers suffering from gas poison poisoning ng these patients suffered more terribly than tiny any of the others whom we cared for at first a great mandof many of them died after suffering in terrible agony however later laier the suffering from this cause was greatly minimized and there were few deihs deaths at times there ats as almost an interminable stream of wounded coming to the hospital they were treated first firs t at the emergency field llo hospital sital then taken to to a clearing station aud from there became our patients only billy those with the he british forces were sent to our hospital As many as wounded soldiers were brought to the hospital in a single night of them were literally torn to pieces dieca by shrapnel considering si dering the facilities and the character of the cases handled the deaths at the hospital wore remarkably few they averaged ohly ably about 2 per cent of all the patients handled some of the cases were not serious and alid soldiers soon returned to the front the more oases were sent to england as soon hb they were convalescent I 1 ans particularly struck with them the brav bravery yand and assurance of the british sold soldiers ierg they bore their suffering without a murm murmur i r and those who died died bravely and smilingly i everyone was absolutely confident of the victory of the lilies allies and each hopefully expressed it at every every opportunity one cannot exaggerate the horrors othis terrible wai war indeed one cannot find words to give t even remotely a con coplion of it to on one e who fink h aa not bee near the benches ren heg ches the strain of witnessing so 1 much uch suffering buld have hav been bean terri blo were jt not hir for the fad fact that we ive we were re so ll 11 apsy c tring caring tor kor i h wo we cje aura wura oblivious to w our oui a feelen an und d 0 6 o ou our i r own d danger an choun f irr 16 ciol at owr rr from r umi N bics b front we seldom deldorn heard the firing at the I 1 line ine but wo we always heard it when there was firing on the channel I 1 shall always be very glad that I 1 accepted cai tho the opportunity to go to 1 prance france ill I 1 would ll have liked to remain longer were it not for the fact that I 1 was needed in salt lake at this time in france shortly before I 1 left we tried to make ourselves believe we saw a zeppelin if it was one it was far away after leaving france I 1 stopped in london for two weeks and was there on ta the occasion of a zeppelin raid laid on the city however I 1 was unaware of the raid until I 1 read it in the paper the next day salt lake tribune the state statement ment that miss is a salt lake girl is erroneous she was born in monroe sevier county and lived there until the death of her mother after which she came to marys vale to reside with her uncle and aunt mr and mrs reuben dewitt her many relatives and friends in this section of the state will be glad to hear of her safe return from service on the battle front in france |
