Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-11-11

down and forgot the presence of the
Turks in a slumber, all the more pro-
fould after the various sensations he
had passed through during the day.
1t was still dark when he was awak-
ened about three O'Clock by a message
from their friend the Colonel. The
three men had slept in their clothes.
They now sprang to their feet and fol-
lowed the messenger, who led them 20
a small farmhouse among the fields.
where the whole regiment under me
Colonel's orders was drawn up TO re-
,eive its rations for the day.
1t was Lent, the week before Easter,
during which no Greek Catholic Is al
lowed to eat meat. The rations of me
troops consisted of a large round loaf
of coarse brown bread served out to
each man, a supply which was expec--
ed to last him for the day.
Vaughan, with his luxurious English
notions, could hardly bring himself
to MUNICH the coarse food. He little
thought how eagerly before the next
few days were over he would long for
even the coarse ammunition bread Of
the Greek army.
He and Cheriton were now introduce
ed by the Colonel to the Captain of a
company of Engineers two hundred
strong. The little force was the pick
of the whole army. The men, In adj
dition to their rifles, carried entrenrh-
ing tools, and it was they who had
prepared the rifle trenches which de-
Tended the position; and the foremost
trench, that along the bank of the riv-
er itself. was occupied by them.
Realizing no doubt, by this time, that
Vaughan and his companion were in
earnest and did not intend to accept
a position of safety in the rear, the
Colonel assigned them to the care OF
the engineer company and they were
led off to take their places in the
trench with their comrades.
The morning was cold and raw, and
to lie there in that damp trench with
no warm coffee to comfort them otter
their early rising, and nothing 10 eat
but the coarse bread, was a trying tx
perience. Vaughan was glad when the
sun got up, its hot rays driving the
moisture out of the earth; and when
the mist had cleared away the glorious
heat followed and warmed the chilled
limbs of the soldiers as they lay be-
hind their defences.
Almost with the first streak of light,
the battle, if it could be called one.
recommended. The artillery thunder
ed from the hills, but unless their ears
deceived them the reply from the Turk
ish batteries was no longer so sustain
as the fire from those on their "
side.
The rifle from across the river re-
manned steady, and not oniy did a
stream of bullets came from the oppo-
site bank Immediately n front of them
but they were also exposed to a gall
ing flank fire, which came from some
troops higher up by the bridge
Here the river made a curve and
consequently the bullets fired by the
enemy at that spot came sideways
along the trench in which Vaugnan's
new comrades lay. The braastwork in
front of them was no protection against
the fire, consequently as soon as the
Captain Of the engineers grasped the
situation, he ordered his meE to throw
up little banks oil earth at right angles
to the breastwork In front. thus screen
ing them from some of the bullets.
t vaughan's position was the least IA
yourable of all. He lay at the most
exposed end Of a row Of men. having
| one Of these cross-works Immediately