Barnwell sentinel. (Barnwell C.H., S.C.) 185?-1925, November 28, 1918, Image 2
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CLOQUET, MINN., DESTROYED BY GREAT FOREST FIRES
VERSAILLES, WHERE THE INTERALLIED CONFERENCE MEETS
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All thuLuns left of the town ot Cloquet after it had been swept by the forest
tion of northeastern Minnesota, killing 1,000 pet^onfejitid d >hig $100,(MK1,000 damage,
which we overlooked the river ami
Malicious Destruction
lowering cathedral steeple had
a gtiuner’N mark which find
■ii overlooked. The spire of the
le Ville also had heeh sliot and
ither -k Lung.-nt half-mast, In
time about the *c|TV liall tire
tins is a view ol the beautiful palm.- of_Vorsstitie.s. the si sit" of toe irtte.ralHcd w
mai-v's doom. In the loiogioutid is seen part of the orangery. : The palace is one of
in the world. It is said Louis XIV spvtit s|dpo<Mi,iKK» on it and the surrounding park.
Refugees Retominq to the Little Left by Heartless Hun—Already
’ Small Storekeepers Are Operating at Fufi Blast—Germans
Chased Out Too Fast to Take Their Loot With Them—
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Where Marines Wrote Themselves Into Fame.
iiniikos 1 'liad "tiocti ’shell.'it to Tlbit." A
SEARCHING PRISONERS AFTER.A BATTLE IN FRANCE
radiator' stood ^Out in -mids'iir from one
of them. On the second story wall
of another hung a large portrait of a
girl. Ih.mbs and shells.had torn their
way ^pn rough rooXs and afterward
when I walked through the city streets
+re:ifizi'TT that tile worg v7T"('U'sTrn7 T rtr»ri
had been completed hy malicious
Jlands. furniture had been smashed
and thrown Into yards and streets* pic
tures had been ripped from frames,
and even kitchen uU-iodls—had—luuui
thrown out to rust.
A InrgCj part of the Joot of the city
was recovered when tin* Hermans
were hurriedly forced out, and a nurse
in an American lied Cross hospital
which followed the allied troops ( Into
I’hateiin-Thierry told me of seeing
great sticks tilled with gold and silver
cups, candlesticks, tableware and or
naments of every description which
tinrt been stored there In the hospital
and left in. the retreat. The hospital,
originally for French civilian**, has
.changed hands five times and was in
such a stale of unspeakable filth when
the Americans took It -over /mm the
Poelies that tt took ten days to clean
a.marine oilirer am) smiled at me pity
ingly. ‘Wex] that was interesting a
month ag<». A Poehe potted me there,
and I’m just going back to Join, my
mi'll. Itnt you won't timl it interesting
now. All tin* Hermans are gone."
Fut In; was wrong? There tire (Jer
mans marching through the streets ot
Cliati au-Thicrry Aery day Herman
prisoners armed with shovels and
picks who are (denning out the wreck
age arid desolation, they left in tlufir
path when‘they evaluated tile city on
Julv “‘J ; proud Prussians who are
wielding scythes to harvest the crops
in tin fields that tlicy called “Unscr-
Innd" :» moiith ago; mild faced hoys
s who journeyed-tt- thr»se>
Irrthe f?i
er of murderous machine gun
lire to smoke the Forties out of the
stronghold that assured their footing
in T’hutAnu-Thlerrjv
1 elimhed f over graves and shell
holes, through underbrush and past
isolated hits of barbed wire entan-
gleu/euts into, the heart of tin' woods,
where the. Poetics had their (logouts.
And at every, step of the way, dlfli-
eult t<» traverse even now when ! !t In.*
been trampled. over and cleared out.
since 1 lie tint tic, I wondered at the
-courage of the-"buys—who—bad- fa-eed
hidden machine guns and unknown
horrors lurking in the shadows. A
human jawbone Iny pt the doorway of
a bunting lodge which, hud heen des
perately cohTvstcd for and from the
underbrush nearby protruded the hoots
Trf "Tnv'-TTTTtmrtett- tfurr.— y •••-*
A group of diigouts off to the riglit
was >■ ell concealed 1 *y rocks and un
derbrush and I peered down Into' <a*-, -
i d of t hem.. The openings were
just big enough to permit a mail to
wriggle through on his stomach and
Inside was a little straw and perhaps
a battered helmet or rotting gas
Pronin Is of i ho ancient clui t«yui for
which the city was named. They once
belonged to tin* ’duko*ot Thierri; who
was one of the famous seigneurs of
the early eighth century. I’ climbed
through subterranean passages there
which were bltUt-by his vassals that
1+e might escape to the otherv side of
the ‘Marne wji.enever his enemies
pressed him tiAi—elosely. hut which
the Hermans is minimized by -Mr
ed to a close scrutiny nu.TH’hot i
MAKING INSIGNIA FOR U
protection during stir raids from
French planes. The openings are par
tially filled up now so that they no
longer ufToflt passage under the river,
but they offer ad pinte protection
against b(UuL)*r Thrre are deep bnrtt
wine cellars with thousands of bottles
which the Hermans carried up there
and emptied. And there are old stone
mortars' that the inhabitants claim
date back to the battle of CVeey, with
saw
empty cartridges from Poetic guns ly-
ing beside them.
A city of desolation is Chateau-
Thierry, but a city whose wounds al-'
ready are beginning to beat. It es
caped—total destruction because since
the Herman troops were on one side
of the riv.er and the allied ^roops on
the other the artillery on both sides
was prevented from'direct’ operation ;
arid so civilians are coming brick. Tin*
uio iroume ot burying those men.
Many of the shell holes had a sickly
greenish line, the mark of gas which
poisons even the'-earth, and around
others were mounds of empty Car
tridges showing they’"had booh used as
semiprotoetion for machine gunners.
Wrote Themselves Into Fame.
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Winn the Hermans entered L’hnteau-
Thierry in .June, tjicy reached the apex
oi :ri r;angle', the other ('lids ( ff _w hich
were : t Soissons and Uefni'C They
held the city’for r*U days ami were *so
strongly, intrenched that ’'the French j
nri'enti trpop.-XJftJia retook the)
it by. oiuilanking movements
of a direct <frive which would
! many 'times as myiny lives,
ai'rnes of - Ibe American dlvl-
!ii ( < 11 turned tin s<vilr "I the
'* "le th»'l|i>olvC.s Into fiimi,'
ig Pell can ■.woods. The other j
>f tlitr division^ e gi*r for a
ehune.i of dixfinguished serv- I
<- ‘'allowed <1 to tjike Vans, dl- !
j_ftI* Tr Tv'esr iff I'harenu Tliierry, J
eeriiie tlie pix (»t point Tor the '
that >-.|.u.co/,o(i-the Huns from!
\niuieim iivtillerv batten'd 1
Jjaying found Hint only one side of his
bouse had been torn tiff, Is inhabiting
the. oUn-jy side and preparing to tipvu
out nevys for* those who are returning.
Every scrap of cloth and-linen in his
house was etrfrieil (.iff a.nd> lnneli of the
furniture Vlestroved, hi.it he found the
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sllvi'r which lii' buried in Ids hack
yard before he fled with his wife, and
his wife has found a job cooking for
American military police wild are sta
tioned there.
A millinery shop has opened up and
there is another little store of “no-
tions,” where perfumes and nail polish
are fcn sale. _Fxult stand.s and cheese
dipps, - hntclK'r stores and postcard
venders are operating at full blast on
jdyoot -cornei.s. or itmtlrafty rooms that
and emerging agatu troara Tliiuip ol
ib'ek trees and lie '.vv undei brush. »>
At La 'Ferle Hcm ■ i- .i great gast
in h st.'dioii win re : I mm lie plane
sweoi'ing down wilhiti i ferv himdrei
Xlirds ,»j the iniuk, dropped :u hall
doyen iiombs just it few nl’ghis' ago
And j roie ill ere a.i au!" road, iwick
nuti' d by stTeTT boby ith< thmugl
fertile country ai.d prrrk roofeij ' yil
lerc- lifeless iiid deserted, to Lucy
ielliii.. ge. mid Pelh-au woods, .where I
the • American niarines. show ed -.the'; •
worn just vvtuit tirkting stuff the , r *‘‘*
T’niied States art’uy'is made <dV=»— — j
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the Lanai du NoTfl Tliev diseoveiid
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-Thai tfrnrks-rf—-the cHi^al -were
studded wit 11 Herman machine gun
■“nriiAts." That was enough for tiie
"T'nnadiiuis. and they treated them all
like tlie. juie -iiown in the photograph.
A’na chi Me which'Utrits-our over loO P.O.'s, naval insignia at one time. It
takes t wo hours to eotiiplHe.tljem.’ • This business is an inrportmit (<ne, as the
navy personnel is now well oveK oOOjluO men.
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GENERAL PERSHING AWARDS HONOR CROSS
Care of Interned Germans.
It costs the United ‘ States jiist ol
cents a day to keep each Herman In-
’terned in^fhe big colony-nt I1»i Springs,
N. C„ or $176.15 apieeeTi year, of ilmt
dl cents 30 ccnts~n day is the cost ot
food, or. abotrt 10 cents-a me;U.—■ ffre
entire cost of maintaining the ‘J.boo
Hoi-maiTs- rinriiig the lust'yerir lui> been
oyys/jyx-
m mm
ils- and ih.cn. thcTTiffm
In avt'ly tin
bapetf on The strt'ets, guilties^. of *pro-
1 teetiotv iff glass—pr., even windows or
floors n many ease's. Tin* more Imld-
fnble .houses have liecn eh'.’tmii out
and are being % used as hi'Qilipiarters
for tlie military, ofliOials.
! ivimus
ibour T ttKftnio,
$11!d,0t)0 to build. Probably tin' whole
hill will In* submitted to Hif many .when
the war is over, as u<> dou'ht tin* tPr-
TTnrrr ignverntiu-n.p. 1 'tvi i i
keep iff Au.ecjc.iu pi;i,snnT
lie t'liiti I State-.- is e rlan,
.OlJtL brisojrrrs-iri all earti
VETER^S' GRANDSONS
GO TO FRANCE TOGETHER
Ids otuint.ry tit laekeMt
fte Failed to‘-Srilute
rundtfOJi' of
nieo’vyi gb'ss were no tti it, pc jyaa
found toiri sturTin Td'4qsemri'n'':“‘“*^*.^'
,-tL- Guarded by the Dead.
t’l'iu l.uey-!e-ljoeage to Pelican
wood the road literally’ Is guarded.hy
tK d. S’fl -whose i (ii'es were covered
where they fell and |inarked by simple
wi - ib ii crosses on many of vv filch the
•oldteFs trench.helmet hn’ri been bung.-
Jt whs the way of. fhe cross for the
Thornton FContz
!dm and .t'dd tjtriHp Li/CeTiff’ the tie
and wear a regula't.joiT lie.' The next
day he notjegtl. the, rookie had on a
bow tieruiul onco again tald him to
wear Tlio fe^ulatiorH-blHek string tiA.
The following day he^«otjt lym again
and the rookie failed^to|psjt|ute. My
hrother stdrlpi'd, him and said: “Why
lieutenant coioneb attached to . don’t you salute an offleer?” to which
Ion was for conspicuous gal- ■ tho-rooklo replied; - “I thi^ght you
■,/j Jack 'Thoriiton and W. A. < a-
1 way Jr., gnpidson of W. A. Fal-
f la way, !«*ft together for the
world war.
I Friends of the N’lS hoys"
• feel sure they, will be in the pa-
I cMle—jiown “Uuter den Lin
V den " V
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l wore mad at me.”—Chicane Tribune,
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