The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-06-11
Mr.. and Mrs. william Hendrickson
of Tamarack Advised of Sons
Death in Camp Hospital After
Illness of Only One Day.
MILITARY FUNERAL TO Be HELD
Remains Will Be Shipped to CAL
umet and Inferred, With Honors
BETTING Heroic Service, In Sol
diers' Plot In Lake View.

That the copper country has made
it's first sacrifice of life i'm connection
with the American occupation of Vera
Cruz. was the sad intelligence that
reached this city today. when Mr.. and
Mrs. William Hendrickson of 10 Oak
street, Tamarack. were advised by let
ter of the death there. after brief ILL
ness with acute stomach trouble, OF
their son. Private oscar +. Hendrick-
son of Company b, Twenty eighth In
fantry, u. $. A. Private Hendrick-
son died in Field Hospital No. near
Vera Cruz on May 2s. He was i'll but
one day.
The Twenty Eighth Infantry had
been in the service i'm Mexico since
early in May, being the first regiment
of the regular army transferred from
Galveston to Vera Cruz, following the
capture of that city by the naval forces
under Admirals Fletcher and Badger.
Mr.. HBndrickson, who had enjoyed
good health during almost the entire
period he was in Mexico became
slightly i'll on May %. on that date
his company was marched out to per-
form outpost duty, and because OF
Private Hendrickson's indisposition. he
was permitted TO ride to his now sta
ton i'm "A street car, while his COM
rades made the journey on foot In
stead of improving he became more
violently i'll and was transferred to the
field hospital. where despite every pos
sible medical attention. he passed
away about 10 o'clock the morning of
the following day. May 2S.
In notifying the young mans grief
stricken parents of their sad misfor-
tune, Capt. w. j. Lutz. i'm command OF
Company b, makes the following COM
ment:
81 wish to state that during his
enlistment, Private Hendrickson
performed his work in a very SOL
dierly manner"
Pursuant to the request of the war
department as to what disposition
would be made of the remains, Mr. and
Mrs Hendrickson of Calumet will wire
today to ship the remains and personal
effects to Calumet.
Private Hendrickson was twenty-one
years Of age, having spent the greater
part Of his life in the copper country.
He was formerly employed at the
Tamarack mine. He enlisted i'm the
regular army about two years ago at
Fort Schnelling. Minneapolis, and a
short time afterwards his regiment
was sent To Galveston, Texas for bor-
der duty, remaining on the border
during almost the entire period up to
the time he was transferred to Mexi-
co.
Private Hendrickson comes of a pa
triotic family. His half prother, Roy
Reynolds of Minneapolis. has just
completed a three-year term of service
in the regular army and another broth
er, Harry Reynolds. also of rowing
disposition. is a sailor on one of the
great ocean steamships. Besides his
parents and the brothers mentioned.
Mr.. Hendrickson leaves two brothers.
Richard OF Minneapolis and Clifton,
who makes his home in Calumet.
Will Have Military Funeral.
That Private Hendrickson's remains
will be buried with full military hon
ors in Calumet is certain. AS soon as
definite advices are received here as
to the date his remains may be ex-
pected, preparations for the funeral
will be made by members of the Calu-
met Engineers, Spanish war veterans
and veterans of the Civil war. Inter-
ment probably will be made in the Sol
diers' plot at Lake View cemetery,
where the body will rest beside the
rem Tins Of those heroes OF the Span
ish- American war. whose lives were
offered up as sacrifices TO the cause of
the country and its flag. Grief among
the military men of Calumet over the
loss of Private Hendrickson, who while
not a comrade i'm actual service with
the Calumet Engineers or other mill
tary bodies, was comrade i'm the
same patriotic cause they represent, is
almost as keen as that of the SORROW
ing parents.
Patrick's Condition Serious.
Further information concerning the
injury To Peter James Patrick, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Alex Patrick of Copper
City, who was injured about two weeks
ago in n boiler explosion on the Cruis-
er Salem, indicates that his condition
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