Barnwell sentinel. (Barnwell C.H., S.C.) 185?-1925, September 12, 1918, Image 2
BARNWELL SENTINEL, BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA
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TROUBLES OF THE ENGINEERS IN FRANCE
bridges. There whs a terrific, report
followed by nn Inferno. Roth bridges
crumbled In the middle. Both were
crowded beyond theTFTIjnTts. Bits, of
Hermans cjiine rulping-down for al
most three minutes, accrtrdlng to tlo*
spectator, while from / the rivers the!
wild cries of the Injured and drown
lng made p picture Kfu-rtz will alvvaj-
carry with film. '■ <- *
Tor it few minutes the river ws«
literally choked .^vith bodies. The
Germans were at Just moving on
Baris, but In a way they had hardly
reckoned.'.
Between piilTs of a clgarettty the
llfsf !,,•’(] hud in a day. Frank Hogan
"f- FJalvesfon, Tex,.; confirmed Sturt//'-
•trim
" * "u can’t jsa v . enough for those
artillery guvs,” he said, ns he tried
’to..1\vist Into as emufortahte a' posh
t.iop as a woundt^l thigh permits.
I eiV' minutes after the .orders had
been telephoned to the batteries they
had a perfect range on that, river, r
While we were pouring bullets into j
guns'got their miin- *
small and large
pot where we were,
»n. there must have
been about 3.000 » of tie* Fritzies
got across theriver. They didn't all
go back. In fact. T don’t •think there
were hardly any -of that bunch that'll
gee -lock - t+> ' {ormany.-—We—raptured
over- I.TiiMt. ourselves and killed easily !
o"0.- I lie rest were’'trying in beat it
back to the othbr sTcle when our shells
bit Jlmir bridges.”
Some Sharpshooter.
i Weat» rn Ne* *p.i|»wr t V nipt
I Icinit
water are constantly, busy making roads and
irn tig bushel Is. Hew* is a rpllor that
htisky Canadians like those 1 you see To
Th< v engineers across fire
reconstructing those tintt have
has got; stuck in » ditch, and It tald-s
pry Jt back Into place.
tuna
POST OFFICE TAKES OVER THE AIR MAIL SERVICE
JL4-U-U.sburgbef..,A
in the Battle Line or Lying Wounded in a Hospital His Chief Charac
teristic Is His Indomitable Spirit—If There Is Yet- an
American V\fho Does Not Hate the Hun He Should Hear
the Tales of the Heroes of Chateau-Thierry. '
was Injured In the arm by a piece o.f
shrapnel, says Hu re’s one American
Miarpstmoter that made a record any
one- might be prom! of during the
first of the mixup. While the Herman
engineers were fryi.ng to throw their
first pontoon .bridges over lie picked
off twenty fight.. of them with* his
rifle. 1 -couldn't get, Ids name, hut lie
Paris.—The Indomitable and uncon-
*querriblo spirit of five KbRIters fi-un
the United States IV one of-the out-,
Standing <liurarterl-dlqs that excite
the admiration of all who come in con
tact Tvltli them. They make the Ainer-
lean proud of ids nutlomdity. ami
arouse the envy of those wh,i\ by cir
cumstances over which they have no
control, are denied the privilege to be
one of them, w .. ' '
If there Is yet an American who
does not hate the Hun, he nr she'
should have seen the first trainload
of American wounded that arrived
here from ('bateau-Thierry/ As these
heroes mnd« # ntiy related their esft»erl*
ences, one, had ft mingled feeling .of
worship for them and Intense hatred
for the blood maddened beasts who are.
responsible for’the awful agony which
the world Is now suffering.
In a compartment with n number of
French wounded was a nineteen yPnr-
- old hoy from Chicago, lie was nlT
alone and surrounded by meh Who
could not speak Ids language. lie was
In the most terrHie pain, hut managed
to keep down the slightest groan.
Nothing could have drawn a whisper
from him before his -French comrades
Tn arms.
A Red Cross doctor asked him if
there was anything he warded.
“Just a drink of water, please,’’ was
the low answer.
He got It;"The*doctor asked If there
was anything else he wanted. The
boy wanted to be turned'on liks side.
With a machine-gun, bullet through
his leg and a wound that had searched
Its way across Ids hips, tit say noth
ing of an Injured arm, he was perfect
ly Incapable of helping himself.
The doctor turned, -him on Jus side
and then discovered the lad-had had-
nothing to eat fur 32 hoifrs. Unfor
tunately lie was only one of -many In.
the same fix. The Red (’i.-o'-s did Its
best and soon had w lia’t enwrgoney
food It bad In the hands of Uiose who
were stiIt nble # to me theni, The more
seriously Injured , f o.iiv-e, wefe the
first to be ivm lo'tJie long line
.1 • 4 *
of watting an birjele'-
, IndonTnt.dde Spirit.
Before the train; | ed in the amhti-
lancog were drawn up and wait Lug.,. So
was. x small crowd. As the lirsj am
bulance quit the station the eriAvd
started to -cheer: There was a dough
boy on the front scat with the driver,
sone arm-in a sling. ‘The other stalling
a sjmdwWfThin ids month. 1 R^tyfiveir
the -sandwich in aeknoxvledgthefit,
while a entitented look entire over his
\firawu andXjied face.
xTho crowd un'Veased as the a'mhu-
Inncbs formed almost ,:a' ronH^Tuous
train. Words of sympathy were heard
-on all .sloes' hot irumiugled with-tears
as the flovvAy «>f Young A/qerieq tied
had inarched north "so vattnniTy a few
short • months hei\re vy as pa Inst a-kl ug
ly transferred to hasp hospitals.’
- . At the ead.joLJ.hii.YiC'^^sion came
a cortege that the crowd grasped Hie
meaning of In a moment/ ^They/wer**'
ambulances. but their destination Was
the cemetery and not the hospital.’
The women wepU openly and crossed
* themselves,~\vldl< -the hat of every
mail In the crowd. cuiiie off la a *rw
spectful salute to,the dead. .
The •'sight w as one to w ring the
heart, -tmt the Iiidouiirnbje spirit of
Americn hubbed up. whenever ir man
able to talk above a gasp'Was found.
Many of the wounds were from shr.ip-
nel. Where they v wero not 4 g^ally.
serious 1 the’’posse'-sorVvtold ,t|y' tale
of What they had been ThfHulJh.
It was AtV o’clock lif the niortdhg of
Mafne and tin i*e^Were opfy elglif of
us to about sixteen of them.Hott we
sure <leaned out that first hutehi My
pleasure ended right there, though/
t<>r a piece of slir;iprle| banged me, in
tie* left' a-rm ah<l it was back, to the
woods for me. “But, lielicve me. my
company did Its share In driving the
111111*- into (lie river/’ .
- a sharpshooter's i
mother.
soldiefs befievi
Janies. I,. Until of r No. T.'U) Spruce
street, Philadelphia, does, and it’s a
fortun.-He thing for him that he
ptayeddiis. vWith a comrade Paul way
lii a dngout during a barrage. Shells
were landing all -.ifound. UinylTv' one
blew In the entrance, -so Ijadl decided
their dngout Was bi*comMg a liitb^too
warm. He waWi'd 0*t* a short itdf in
the\ terrific tiring and then darted for
another sjudtor. ■ He lunf -nor -gotten
fifteen feet away from the dngout'
y;
Didn’t Know When to Quit
If anyone wants to know jvliv the
Americans were at first driven back
from the river bank, fliev are hereby
11% into lii
.lATernd to I.oniil'e Shelton of Bur-
dine, Ky.. Shelton's pnit ajoue .tdok
ove^y.'OO prisoners when. I he Ameri
cans \returjMsb- to the eounter-nttack,
and furl f M f the fact that a number
j<f -them'were khocked olit, : as Shelton
.was. ttiev\yoqid haVe stiH li.cc.ii going.
. ‘‘They knocked n- back at first bv
» . I
lh«* most ferritic barrage I ever saw
turned loose, but We didn’t stay back
department August
Vheials- -and an irlf
Mu i i."
OVERSEAS RED CROSS DRESS
lion foj- several w
JACKIES CAPTIVATE KIDDIES
~h*utf r " deeJared he. “We got the order
to counter-attack, and the way we
waded back Into Mr. Boche was some
thing t<>write lmrrie about: I’ve never
seen such r bum'll as vve had. They
advane.-d yelling like h.-ll, bayom-tted
and -hot- down every\Ileinie that
didn’t •know enough to gel out of the
way. Those guys could iio*'er beat
America In a thousand yea™, and tell
'em I said so."
.Kentucky had anotherjnanvin that
safne scrap that didn’t know vv|omi to
quit, even after a piece of shrapnel
had nit a nasty gash in- Ids right leg.
lie's Arthur Baker of Boorvv-ay.
‘‘Kaintuckee,” and .lie had lust gohe
s company when the
barrage got' him. "but
put him out. A little Inter
In* Hermans came over to se<
t. Baker ,was st’ill -on tbq job
g his gun for all he was.worth
tin* AtncrlmTrf had to go. hack
was'so exhausted In
couldn’t |
f'Htire. His comrades picked Ijim up j
aniKeiYrrled him!
Xhey Didn’t. Last Long. . ,.|
HeinitcOtd. d out one of Ids favor
it'’ 1 sfuuts (Undressing up some of hik
soldiers in FreHcb and \meriean uni
forms, nceordiugNo Anton Zolnow;skl
of •2 V '-I-S South' M'urner nv-einie, Chicago
A HK? 4 ^u’to I»> W~*
k \N t-AfViti L’nloiij
We snw- ton inA-n rrrr Ttr.
M lit hie (list;uu*e aw MV,
lem wi ic in l rem h |inl-
o 111 American. We yelled
(ome dver ami- join ' us.
'<'<1 a few paces and then
>n u ” •
snijUtd r ini nr utipb-as-
P-'Bfj'd- it-right arm' Hldt
ehin ■ gun ' imll(*f. " »
•_ . We Van do
r them. - -Not one of ’em
They were Herman* nil
was another group coxn-
ealrr'h Nevts ii"' r 1 >n
'1 be oversws field uniform f
American/Red Cross is a dn -s o
ehaiftbnn. a* white lawn cap tin
tons over the hack and a potnn'd
fastening' to the waist/ *
BELGIAN QUEEN VISITS BATTLEFIELD
A Snub That Hurt.
“I am afraid Mr. Ringer, is not going
to accept pgr imitation to call/’ said
Mrs. Somers Bay.
"Well," remonstrated her .husband,
“we ean^ allow oiirsefve.s to fret about
who calls and who doesn’t.”
“But. my dear, Mr. Ringer- ds the
genrleman who drives around in a
wagon end delivers Ice." ' -
TURKS QUIT WORK
ON UNHOLY GROUND
A-nTtgrr; A^is.-—A series of mis
fortunes, Including the. drowji-
■ "Y
lug of ou.e of tlu*ir number and
the f^ufpUumof' another, cau’seil
-a crowd itf Turkish rallwflj'.la
borers enijiloyed at Monico Mo
demand lliat theydlift.-transferred
to some, other placer , ag they
considered ,11)*•' scene of. tlieij;
trophies -"unholy groun^ " Tlmir
request was granted.
ea>Ho back at
tn ejT'iln (-very
■ rnttr * evy———
jf \\ eltsburg'
iMir-e.r, bjifl. tn
/ ^ Pronounce by Sneezing.
■•’Bel la ire, O.-y-TlPe judge dbl nor art
dress .tin* complaining witness or the
defendant by name when Walter Zl'mr-
Irkos.nvsky .had "Sjilunnao Vo<ee!lJ-
elp»wnnis.hw4ski arrested on a ■ cK.irgb
of provokjitg liith. lb* tried «iariVs
several .times and then took the case.
Thomas Paine.on
"When we sum y t.fie
tIon of man und* _jh’e
hereditary 3vittte«W.-.
«lragg*'d from his Tinrji
Monarchy.
w p-trhed con'll-
monarehial nn^.
vf gpveniment,
» pon-
h row n
tinder ndvBcment;
/‘tie iH^ver
ipoVerlshed
ne-mipR. It be-
“fidut* art
revoiuiion in
the principle and construction of ro^.
Strike Big Ga« Pocket. —
Fairmont, W. Vn.—A 13.ono.f>iNi-f ( KTt-
gas wen was brmigtr in oW tho Hump,
(ttM Ji.Ye lultas sopibwest of Manning
ton. It, lsithe largest gas well to be
<Xttlled Ip this section for fim years’
and we started after ; were others who seertTHt v
ery content
-MfiB frojQjj AmerL-
squarely over the
them,” said Cook. “The Helnles w ere ( b. 1m* gbi^'c. Tvot '
—mlnf ■!> on Ihejwulh bank of jhe can .six-limbers ml
ernment Is ne< --ary