Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1916-08-25
CAMP Of BADGERS
STRUCK BY STORM
YOUNG CYCLONE AND A 7DELUGE
PLAY HAVOC WITH TENTS
AT LEON SPRINGS.
HIKE BACK TO CAMP WILSON
Battery and Troop Make Twenty-Five
Mile March in Teeth of Gale.
Find Tents Raced and Camp
Wilson Sea of Mud.

San Antonio-A young cyclone and a
small deluge struck the Wisconsin
camp at Leon Springs just before the
men started on their return march to
Camp Wilson, and tore down nearly
everything in it's path. Gen. Richard
sons ten went down as did those of
other officers and pup tents of the
men. Torrents rushed down the hill
side and everything the men had on
was saturated Most of them, includ-
ing officers, marched without socks be-
cause they had none dry to put on,
and the rest of their clothes were wet
when they donned them in the morn
ing.
Battery A and Troop A, in their
night march of twenty-five miles to
Camp Wilson, were caught in the
midst of the storm that came at a
rate of from forty to sixty-eight miles
an hour The great force of the wind
drove the rain down the mems necks
and although they wore ponchcs they
were drenched.
When the artillerymen ard troopers
came into Camp Wilson they found the
place a wreck. Nearly every tent of
The troop battery and three infantry
regiments was blown dowr, many with
the iron les smashed, and even some
of the wooden mess kitchens were
RACED. The guards at the camp were
forced to take their cots and seek ref
uge in lighthouses when their tents
were pounded down on them by the
gale.
None Drop Out on March.
Not man of the Wisconsin brigade
dropped out on the return march of
twenty-five miles from Leon Springs
to Camp Wilson.
"The troops could have covered the
distance in one day instead of two"
said Gen. Richardson. However, the
camp was not ready for them because
Of the storm Friday night. Then, too,
the men had had. no sleep the night
before they started on account of the
storm"
The soldiers will rest for about a
week. Then they probably will march
to Landa's park at New Braunfels,
where they will have an outing for a
week or ten days. Divisional maneu-
vers are expected to follow, and it is
possible that when they are concluded
the men will return home.
Second Lieut.. A. S. Ckiids of the
Second infantry machine gun company
has been promoted to first lieutenant,
under the reorganization plan which
provides for three lieutenants instead
of one in machine gun companies.
First Sergeant Stanley Smith has been
promoted to second lieutenant Sec
ond Lieut.. Harvey F. Smith of the
Second infantry Supply company will
probably be transferred to the machine
gun company to fill the other vacancy.
Under the reorganization the supply
companies will have one lieutenant in
stead of two as heretofore.
La Crosse boys on the border have
no cause to complain of the brevity
of letters from home if two instances
are taken as examples: Joseph Tikal,
member of Company B, Third infan-
try, has had letter six feet ten inches
long and six inches wide forwarded to
him. A number of Tikals friends sent
the gossip" of the town More than
hundred friends of Capt Herman
Rupp of Company B collaborated in a
letter that measured $50 feet in length.