Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-11-09
HUNS KILL u. s. MEN
FIVE OTHERS ARE WOUNDED
AND TWELVE. TAKEN PRIS-
ONER BY GERMANS.
FIRST AMERICAN BLOOD Split
Gen. Pershing's Telegram Gives the
First Meager Details of the First
| Actual Fighting Experienced
by the Overceas Forces.

Washington, Nov. 6.-Armed forces
under the American flag have had
their first clash with German soldiers
in an attack which the Germans MADE
on first-line trenches where the United
States troops had been taken for IN
struction and three Americans were
killed, five wounded and twelve cap
tured or missing. The war depart
ment made this known on receipt OF
a dispatch from General Pershing.
General Pershing's cablegram gave
the first meager details of the first
actual fighting experienced by Ameri-
cas- overseas forces.
limitations of a conflict were had
in dispatches from Berlin declaring
that American prisoners had been
captured.
The official statement issued by the
war department is as follows:
"Tfae war department has received
q dispatch from the commanding gen.
eral of the American expeditionary
forces, which stated, that before day
light November a salient occupied
;or instruction by company of Ameri-
san infantry was raided by Germans.
"The enemy put down heavy bar
rage fire, cutting off the salient from
the rest of the men. Our losses were
three killed, five wounded and twelve
captured or missing. The enemy's
losses are not known. One wounded
German was taken prisoner"
VNa In ntOn Nov 7-Thn official
casualty list of the losses Of Ameri-
can troops in France in their first clash
with the Germans follows:
KilIed-Private Thomas f. Enright,
sister, Mrs. Mary Irwin, 6641 Promo
street, Pittsburgh; Private James B.
Gresham, mother, Mrs. Alice Dodd,
1901 West Ohio street, Evansville, Ind /;
Private Merle D. Hay, father, Harry
d. Hay, Glidden, Ia.
Wounded-Private John ]. Smith,
brother f. D. Smith, box 80, Luding-
ton, Mich; Private Charles J. Hopkins,
brother, James w. Hopkins, Stanton,
Tex. Private George L. Box, father,
James L. Box, 700 North Grady street,
Altus, Okla; Private Homer Givens,
JdluGI, WIllldLI !. UNVEILS, OlONOA uuAC,
Ala; Private Charles L. Orr, r. F. d.
No. s. Lyons, Kan.
Captured or missing-Sergt. Edgar
III. Halyburton father, George j. Haly-
burton, Stony Point, N. c.; Corporal
Edwin HI. Haines, mother, Mrs. Eliz-
abeth Haines, route No. 4, Woodward,
Okla; Private Herschel Godfrey, step
father, William c. Oberst, TOO North
Ridgeway avenue, Chicago, ILL.,; Pri-
vate Vernon M. Kendall, father, Sam
Kendall, r. F. D. No. 2, Roll, Okla. !;
Private William P. Grigsby, mother,
Mrs. Lizzie Grigsby, 1878 Willow ave-
nue., Louisville, KY; Private Frank e.
McDougal, father, r. L. McDougal, 322
East First street, Maryville, Mo-; Pri-
vate Daniel B. Gallagher, father, Neil
Gallagher, Blockton, Ala. Private
John p. Lester, Tutwiler, Miss. Pri-
vate Harry Loughman, next of kin,
Ada r. Loughman, 461 lakewood bouie-
ward, Chicago, H.; Private Dewey d.
Kern, mother, Mrs. Eva Tilton, Col
Inns, Ia; Private - Reckon, cannot
be identified.
American troops captured by the
Germans in the trench raid on the
morning of November probably were
trapped in their dugouts and forced to
surrender or be blown to pieces with
hand grenades without a chance for
their lives.