Lunes, 29 de noviembre de 1915.
EL IMPARCIAL PAGINA A Bit Mixed Awoke From the Dead in the New Orleans Morgue William Locke tells of a man of father meagre education who was standing for Parliament in an English shire, Mr. Robert Ames Describes a Distressing Real Life Experience Which Novelists and Dramatists While giving a speech before Have Often Tried to Imagine.
those who he hoped would become his, constituyents, he noticed was not in the world of the living. This much was well aware That nigger neck is broke. said the other, indicating one several persons who evidently belonged to the educated class.
In the morgue in New Orleans the day after the recent Gulf hurricane lay the battered body of Robert Ames, dead. He was a chauffeur, from of. was entirely out of touch with all living things. could not of my companions on the slab.
Who the white stiff? asked a curiosity seeker, who saunter. Wishing to impress them, he de cided to attempt a classical al.
Chicago, and his crushed remains with the dead body of a companion had been ed into the morgue.
taken from the ruins of a collapsed building. To the stupified and momentary see the sunlight of the world, did not feel the passing weight of lusion. He Robert Ames, a Chicago chauffeur. replied the attenhorror of the morgue attendants the body of Mr. Ames stirred, a groan escaped the boards and beams that held me crushed under their mass, the and the form on the slab had come to life! Mr. Ames describes his extraor policemen and firemen who shouted and worked about me neither dant, who evidently had gone through by belongings to make an Yes, gentlemen, he shouted saw nor heard.
official identification. That all we know. We can keep the body dinary experience below. was dead, and among the dead.
like Caesar wife. all things during stormy days like these. As soon as we get the coffins we while am in office must be had died. recalled the crash of the falling building. It seemed to me him and the two niggers to Potter Field.
By Robert Ames.
that was in an endless valley with billions of persons trudging on was replaced on the slab. My clothes were put back on my to all men!
to an endless, vague destination. It was not anything like the ortho body and a sheet was drawn over me.
Statement Made by Mr. Ames in the Hospital.
dox idea of heaven about which had read. Nor did it suggest hell. little later the family of one of the negroes arrived, and, Diplomat was killed in the great New Orleans hurricane, September 29 suppose it was nearer to the accepted idea of purgatory.
after identifying their dead, took his body away. The colored man My body was taken to the morgue and the next morning had been was a little perplexed the perplexity which would be natural and were left on the slab. knew he was next to me as his body prepared for burial in Potter Field. came to life a little before to any one who was to find himself in the midst of billions of per was put back after it, too, had been prepared for burial.
Jacob Rosenbaum and Isaac noon of September 30. am in a hospital now with five cribs broken, sons, tramping, trudging, but with no idea of the goal.
Then dozed.
one of them caved in against my heart; my head bruised and saw only men and women. There were no children no boys Again passed on into the world of the dead. Again was Golberg enlisted on the side of the allies in the war with Gerlacerated; and more than sixty abrasions on various parts of my or girls or babies.
body, arms and legs but am very much alive and the plain woo Where are the children? asked a fellow pilgrim who walked trudging on with that endless, noiseless throng. don know how long it was before awoke. heard a noise many. In an engagements both den coffin which had been brought to the morgue for my use is now by my side.
of a box being dragged along the stone floor.
were captured and held in a occupied by some other poor devil. There are no children now. he replied. We are all grown. The sheet one for the white man. directed one of the atten German prison camp. Rosen was walking in South Rampact street, New Orleans, on the When died was an infant.
dants. Put it near his body.
baum wrote his mother as fol.
twenty ninth of September about o clock in the afternoon. The Died! exclaimed to myself. So am dead that accounts knew they were bringing in my coffin. clutched with my lows: wind was blowing at a rate of nearly 100 miles an hour learned Dear mother. Isaac and this from the official figures, afterward. Glass and slate and bricks for all this, and all these people here are dead people. remember hands; exerted all the strength of my heart and very soul to move my muscles. filled my lungs and attempted to shout to shout in were flying all about my head. could scarcely stand on my féet. thinking. It was my first realization of the situation.
without a scratch yet. We have sighted Moore veterinary hospital through the darkness which had But everything seemed natural enough. The strange discovery such a fashion as would be heard a mile away. And from my feeble are here safe and have come out settled down and rushed in. Inside was another man. We huddled my companion had revealed that a child immediately becomes a body, thanks to God, came forth a groan.
One of the men dropped his end of a coffin and leaped back. both been taken prisoners altogether in the front of the building, which was constructed of brick. grown up person when it dies, did not seem to astonish me. And ready and are now in Germany. W1 was that? he asked.
Suddenly a big slice of the roof was lifted off by the hurricane. But suddenly all this changed. become conscious of the world Nothing. replied an attendant at the other end of the morgue. These Germans are fine people; attempted to rush out into the street, but the whole building came of the living could see and hear faintly. May have been a kid in the lot outside.
they give us lots to eat and lots down on me and my companion. learned later that lay covered Then felt cold. felt ice water trickling on my sides. was felt a little self assurance then. felt as if my trance or to drinky and lots to smoke.
by debris and wrekage until nearly midnight, when a police squad nude and lying on a marble slab. tried to make an outoy, a moan, whatever mysterious transition it was, had passed. carefully, deof rescuers took my body and the other man and sent them to the but could not. could not open my eyes or stir a muscle.
liberately moaned, at the same time exerting an effort which re They are awful kind, everybody morgue. Killed in the storm last night. said a voice near me, he and sulted in my being able to move my arm, which was covered with treats us fine. If ever did It appears, therefore, that died between five and six o clock one of the negroes. The other one from the hospital. Consumption. a sheet. was both seen and heard. The terrified attendants and the know they were so fine never that afternoon.
Two men lifted my body from the slab and let the hydrant run driver who had brought in the caskets fled. was left alone with the would have fought against them In my death, or trance, or whatever it was, believed that when, soon after saw two of my cousins who died when they were on me. Of course my heart must have been beating them, but am dead negro, but only for a moment, as the alarm had been sounded and belief me, never will achildren and found they were grown women was not surprised.
sure my chest did not rise and fall to the impulse of the respiration. and a dozen men came back with those who had run away.
Later was told that when was taken from the ruins of the To be among the dead seemed to me not at all surprising.
My eyes were opened by this time.
gain. We are allowed to write remember the curious pallor of all the faces around me which veterinary hospital a physician had declared that the rigidity of my m not a ghost. gasped. Don get scared. Bring me one letter and four postcards a seemed quite as it should be. had no sensations of pain. no emotions. body showed had been dead four of five hours.
something hot.
month, so you can expect to was not hungry, was not thirsty. was not sleepy nor especially If had been wealthy and the address of my relatives had been In a jiffy a stretcher had been fetched and was tenderly lifted hear from me that often, if noth interested in whece was going.
known suppose they would have proceeded to embalm me. was not in any hurry, and yet felt impelled to go on and on from the slab and taken from the house of death into the coroner ing happens. Belief me, Probably the cold water which had been allowed to trickle over office. An ambulance acrived, and was taken to a public hospital.
with the throng which was moving along. One strange thing im me to keep my body prevented my thawing out when the blood was given stimulants. An hour or so later a surgeon examined me 19. Your, loving son, pressed me there was no noise. Countless thousands of shuffling began to circulate. was mentally conscious, but my body was stiff and said an operation was necessary. was in no mood for this. Jakey.
feet and yet not a sound; voices heard, and yet without sound. as a board.
was dressed and at the first opportunity fled the hospital. No heard what was being said, but the words came to me as noiselessly His whole side is caved in. remarked one of the attendants operation for me. went to a private institution and they tell me Isaac was shot this as the words on a moving picture screen.
as he washed me with soap and water. felt no pain. will recover without the use of a knife.
morning at sunrise for grumbHling BRITISH ARTILLERY SUCCESSFULLY Over One Hundred Thousand Djamalenommen Manor BOMBARDS GERMAN POSITIONS. Serbians in the Hands Pomada Salomon LA ARTISTICA of the Teutons.
Remedio infalible para la curaeón de cualquier úlcera y reumatismo.
IN THE COURSE OF THE LAST THE SERBIANS UPON OCCUPYING MULTITUD DE CASOS CURADOS La prime Calle cenFEW DAYS TWENTY THREE tral, al jaPRISTINE AND MITROVITZA Fijarse en las certificaciones que acompañan a cada caja.
do de la DEPOSITO EN SAN JOSE: BOTICA FRANCESA.
MINES HAVE EXPLODED TO SEIZED SECTION OF THE Botica del Propietarie: Salomón Chajud.
SUKUP MITROVITZA RAILComercio THE NORTH OF BETHUNE.
Las Juntas de Abangares.
Teléfono ROAD.
Apartado La medicina está patentada y las falsificaciones serán perseguidas LONDON, 26th. Sir John French 318 269 BERLIN, 27th. By way of conforme la ley.
reports that in the course of the last Sayville) The Ministry of Wor four days our artillery successfully announces that the Serbian prisefter from that there are the bombarded many of the enemy post oners in the hands of the Teutons tions and trenches, destroying their number 101 thousand men and Ebanistería, Carpintería, Tornería wire entanglements and reaching their that the occupation of the Black LECHERIA HOLANDESA Movido todo por fuerza electrica parapets. The enemy returned the fire Bird plain, saved two thousand de Luis Gomis in a mild way. The enemy artillery Austro Germans from inminent Establecida el 1o. de agosto de 1915, frente a las oficinas de los shows great activity to the north of danger. The Serbians upon ocseñores Lindo Brothers y en medio de las casas de don Jacinto Trejos.
Albert and northwards of Plogstret. To y don Eduardo Bengoechea y que ha obtenido la gracia sin haber the east of Ypress, on the nigñt of the seized the last section of the cupying Pristine and Mitrovitza mediado solicitud alguna. de ser exenta del pago de derechos muniel22nd instant, the enemy made a violent pales, conforme a un acuerdo de la Municipalidad del 26 de wtubre LA MEJOR FABRICA DE SIROPES hand granade attack against a crater Sukup Mitrovitza railroad.
Dr. Wilfred Grenfell.
del año 1914 y que dice así: GASEOSAS The Francfort Gazette upon DE FERNANDEZ CAMPOS blown out by a mine, which had been denying the statement made by Harvard, who has left the states to Member of the Unit Hospital of moción del Regidor Güell, apribada por unanimidad de No usamos sacazina en nuestros refrescos. Léase el importante dooccupied by our forces.
votos, se ocordó: modificar el impuesto actual de Lechecumento que sigue: This attack was repulsed to the reference to the Anglo French newspapers in Join a Red Cross hospital in Eng. and.
the agreement rías en el sentido de eximir del pago de dicho impuesto a Jefatura de Sanidad, San José de Costa Rica, 13 de noviembre de (Este grabado muestra una fotogra1915. El infrascrito, Secretario de la Jefatura de Sanidad, a solicitud south of the road leading from Bethune between Greece and the Entente, fie deto Doctors papredit Grenfell todas aquellas lecherfas establecidas o que se establezcan de los señores Fernández y Campos, certifica: que el informe del Laboto La Basse. Hand granade contests says that Lord Kitchener mis en partis de los Estados Unidos miembro del Hospital Unit de Harvard, en esta capital, y que a juicio de la Jefatura de Sanidad, ratorio Químico Comercial de San José, de fecha 10 del corriente, dice. muestras números a 21, procedentes de la Jefatura de Sanidad, reco: reunan las mismas o mejores condiciones que la LECHEhave been constantly kept up by both sion completely failed and that comes objeto de prestazione ricos en nocidas como refrescos gaseosos, contienen sacarina los números uno, sides. In the course of the last few the Greeks are only waiting for terra. un de Cruz Roja en InglaRIA HOLANDESA de don Luis Fernández.
dieciocho, diecinueve y veinte. En los demás np ercontramos. Gus tavo Michaud.
days twenty three mines have explod the Central Powers to send in El expendio de la leche caliente tiene lugar a las ciuco de la maLos refrescos de los señores Fernández y Campos, cuya fábrica se ed to the north of Bethune.
fiana en adelante, el primer tiempo y de las dos de la tarde en adelante, denomina LA MEJOR. eran los números a 11 inclusive, con muestras their ultimatum so as to give the Moving Picture el segundo.
examinadas de Ginger Ale, Zarza, Kola Champaña, Limón, eam Soda y Kola, los cuales no están comprendidos entre los que marca el LaboraAllies diplomats their passports.
Leche refrigerada, leche agria. leche dormida, y suero durante todo torio conteniendo sacarina.
DRINK ENGLISH PUNCH An old darky appeared in the el día al módico precio de El Seeretario, DIEZ CENTIMOS EL VASO 241 ISMAEL COTO.
doctor office one morning, pla Para comodidad del público que nos quiera hcerar con su visitas, Germany Hard Up for Copper.
inly very low in mind.
The doctor, recognizing his Un salón confortable y en el mismo salón un departamento para niños.
pen Marthawarto WILL USE UP THE ROOF OF THE old patient, greeted him in his San José, 1o. de octubre do 1915.
IMPERIAL CASTLE AT DONAPara cualquier dolor en cualquier lugar no hay como most inspiriting manner.
NESCHINGEN 16V Well, Elijah, how is the rhe Yerbas Mexicanas BASLE, 27th, REPORT STATES THAT THEIR umatism these days?
roof of the Imperial Castle at FORCES, HAVE REOCCUPIED En todas las Boticas.
KRUSHEVO. Porley, porley, sah! replied la mejor cera preparada para limpiar muebles y pisos. Por docena a Donaneschingen will be used for Elijah dejectedly. Belieb me, the manufacture of ammunition. 00 las latas de 14 onzas. Se vende en todos los establecimientos, RAWSON, LONDON, 27th. The Serbians Marse Doctor, se jest a movin PIDADO EN LA MASCOTA gente.
have reoccupied Krushevo.
picture ob pain!
titttttttttttttttttttttt Erion Baron Maman Memme mowanie SO 19 ra en su ra mo en el país LUIS FERNANDEZ COMPANIA The Serbians Have Rallied.
tenemos The copper RONUKO Hace un placer de la digestión si se toma después de las comidas Cerveza TRAUBE OS Da vigor a los viejos, fuerza a jóvenes y belleza a las mujeres LA BEBIDA IDEAL Metalu Este documento es propiedad de la Biblioteca Nacional Miguel Obregón Lizano del Sistema Nacional de Bibliotecas del Ministerio de Cultura y Juventud, Costa Rica.