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Machines came after them they cleared out, & all was quiet again, after a little while several stretcher cases came into the hospital also a lot of Walking Wounded cases, mostly head & arms injuries. I must mention the way we take water for the Eng, we have a large hose which we place in a shell hole close to the line & couple it on to a pipe under the Eng & a small hose on to an apparatus on the Eng & a pipe leading into the Tender, & we then turn on a Wheel, & the Steam causes a Vacumn in the large pipe & the water then sypho is lifted up & forced into the Tender, it takes about, 40" to fill a Tender of 2000 gallons, it is good water & causes very little priming & is very clear, we have a truck of coal behind the Tender all day & when we want Coal, we get two of the Gang on to the truck & they throw the coal up on to the tender, while we are working. We