Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-11-13
Wonderful Escapes
Recorded of Men on
the Firing Line

There is a story Of the veteran o
The First Napoleon who lived unit
1866 and In the French village OF Sa
vary, and who owned a wooden leg. 1
wooden arm. a glass eye. a silver pal.
ate, complete vet OF false teeth and
a silver plate on the top Of his head
and yet died peacefully In his bed.
compared With such men the proven
bial nine-llyed eat Is nowhere. But 10
one reads the stories Of great wars OF
the past the manner In which the IA
nous generals have played touch and
go with death II little short Of miracu-
lOus
The wonderful escapes OF Napoleon
and Wellington were proverblal.
Though bullets grazed them and rid
died their clothes. and both had
horses shot under them, yet both
passed through a life Of battle and
danger with two or three slight
wounds apiece. but their grim old
companion In arms, General Butcher,
did not fare so we'll Wounded sew
eral times while serving under Fred
erick the Great. he retired from the
army when that irascibie monarch
sworc at him.
In response. however. TO the patrl-
Otic call, he took UP arms against Ma
poledn. and was seriously wounded al
Lutzen. Al Ligny too, he was thrown
down ana ridden over by the French
and Prussian cavalry: but by drinking
quantities OF his fayorite gin and wa
Ter the old wardOg was able TO lead |
his troops on the following day. and
10 materially assist IN the winning OF 4
The battle OF Waterloo.
Marshal Ney. the bravest OF the I
brave. was continuously fighting for
.wenty-eight years, yet he escaped /
With only a few slight wounds to meet /
traitors doom at the hands Of the
Bourbon king.
Few cases are more remarkable,
However, than that Of General Sken-
ynechi, who got thirty bullets
through his coat during the battle of
)strolenka. In the Polish instruction
4 1881. OF Sir ID. Lacy Evans, whose
ar was perforated by a bullet during J
he Carilst war Of 1891 GaribaldI, i
90, had maay narrow shaves, but i
one closer than when resting one
NY at Volturno. while drinking from
pail OF water a splinter from rico j.
het shell grazed his thigh and killed I
,me people near.
The number OF men who have =
scaped death through having a Bible, :
coin. love letters or some other ar 4
Giles In their pockets Is legion. Dur !.
X the South African war one man \
wed his life to the fact that the g
ieens chocolate box, which he car r
ed In the breast of his tunic. stopped y
weil-aiined bullet. In another case r.
man found Il bullet embedded In II
nall book he carried in his pocket, :,
nd a third owed his escape to GER
In silver coins which DETECTED the n
ischlev0us missile. n
Lord Wolseley came within an ace n
death while serving as captain r.
fore Sebastopol. He was assisting n
replace a number Of gabions under i,
severe fire when a big shot struck ID
e gabion he was holding, drove a OF
rye stone through his check and jaw m
his neck, smashed his right wrist, II
ID injured his skin. But Lord Rob-
Is was even more fortunate. AS he "a
bod on the tower at Lucknow, sig tI
Hing for the British army to adj 81
nee. thousands Of shots were fired te
him and the flag was shot from his Ell
nd Calmly STOPPING down, ne GA
iscd up reglmcntai color and con- X
Iued TO wave that His escape vi
that occasion was little short of a pr
racle. vi