The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-01-17

village and rescue the wounded who
otherwise were threatened with being
burned, fire having broken out IN
several. places. Through the, black
ness Of the night, lit only by the
bursting shells, we made our way
into the village and removed eighty
men from the danger zone. The
staff considered them lost, and upon
learning Of their rescue General
Mishenko called out the heroes Of
that night, thanked them for their
work and made them the subject OF a
fattering order to his regiment. Int
nlediately after that the commander
Of the column fell Ill and was left
In command.
among the troops whose gallant
ry stopped the Germans a second
time from coming to Warsaw were
those OF the First Siberian corps.
General Fascinates.
"For the first time having seen
the magnetic Siberian officers" said
Kalpashnikoff, II decided to offer the
services OF the column to that bril-
liant corps. I went to the command
er Of the corps, General Pleshkoif,
who accepted my services. l was
fascinated by him, and my impress
sion Of him, gained that day, as a
man beloved by his soldiers, big
hearted and fatherly, has never
changed"
During the long tenure Of the line
OF the Bsura river before Warsaw,
when the Smelling at times was so
intense that 1t seemed to him that no
human being could live in the
trenches, Kalpaschnikoff and his col
umn took out and cared for several
thousands Of wounded, victims noe
only of Smelling, but of German
gases.
Continuing his narration, Com
mander Kalpashnikoff said:
about this time the Prassnitz
operation came to crisis. A blow
was necessary to stop the develop
ment Of the German plan directed on
Wilma. The Siberian corps was sum-
moned to start on a few hours notice
and proceeded by forced marches
1877 kilometers to Prassnitz over
fearful roads and in wretched wealth.
er. Two days were allowed to cover
the distance. The world knows OF
that brilliant dash and what was its
result. The military hospital, in this
rapid march, had been left behind.
The Twenty-frst flying column fol-
lowed and was the first to enter after
the city had been taken by the First
and Third Siberian regiments. The
sights we saw cannot be adequately
described. More than 1900 wounded
Germans without having had any
care whatever, were
Lying or Crawling
about the streets. hiding in base
ments and outbuildings, evidently
hoping that the Germans would make
a counter-attack and re-enter the
city. The bitches were full Of dead
and wounded as were the open
spaces about the city and the outly-
ing villages. Many Of our own men
were scattered among the German
wounded. We found the work almost
beyond our capacity, far from rail-
road and with troops always moving
on. We found concentration camps
at various points and put students IN
charge OF them. In these camps we
collected 1850 wounded"
To accomplish the rescue. Kalpash-
nikoff an the student had to crawl
more than mile along ditch, but
in plain view and constant range OF
the German trenches. but, in the
words Of Kalpashnikoff, "the Ger
man soldiers shot rather badly"
After the Germans left Heinoff
the popuatllon was destitute and
facing starvation. The flying Column
in the succeeding fed there 22,69S
persons besides stamping out an cpl
demlc Of typhoid fever which for
time threatened to assume large
proportions.