American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1917-08-24

out their tales of horror. Parr, sum-
mOned from what had been intended
as his final council with the officers
commanding Patria's private army,
prior to his departure for the South
west, had needed to hear no more
thar half a dozen words before he
gave the order to sound a general call
to arms.
Thanks to their long and faithful
drilling, the men Of the night shift,
dropping whatever work they had In
hand at the moment, assembled under
arms in the yard in record time. The
flames Of the second house to be fired
In the town were Just beginning to
leap above the rising ground that sepa-
rated the factories from the settlement
when Patria's men doubled out Of The
main gateway, Donald at their head.
Halfway to the town they got their
first taste of warfare, encountering
there in the darkness a very consider
able body Of Japanese, outnumOering
them two to one. They responded no.
bly,, deploying in open skirmish order
at the words Of command and throwing
themselves fiat upon the ground before
attempting to return the fire Of the
raiders. Though here and there a man
fell. dead or wounded, not one looked
back. Their casualties, If anything,
seemed the one thing needed to stifen
their determination to drive back the
enemy. And the accuracy Of their FIRE
proved so CALLING that the first line OF
japanese was quick to give ground
and retreat upon the burning town.
There, in the scOrching. fiame-lllu-
mined streets, the combat became a
hand-to-hand affair, the raiders, al
though they suffered heavily, giving, to
begin with, almost as much punish
ment as they received, but inch by inch
yielding.
The main street was Uttered with
! dead and wounded when at length they
broke and fed. holly pursued by Dom
aid and his men.
Beyond the town the pursuit became
more or less a running skirmish, the
. raiders ~endeavoring desperately to
7 stem the pursuit long enough to enable
= them to regain their motorcars.
Both sides had suffered heavily. In
the end it was with but a handful OF
his original command that Donald
e pressed the pursuit across the ridge
n pole of the hills and down into the
open fields where the mOtOrcars Of
the raiders had been parked.
: There a final stand was made, a
e desperate resistance opposed to PARIS
n men till the last japanese had found
a place in the car which he hoped
y would bear him TO safety. Then, as
the final car swept u of the field and
down the road, splitting fire from hall
a dozen rifles, the pursuers swarmed
d upon the field and took possession Of
y the abandoned cars, =
d Communicating the first that cam
D. TO hand. Parr jumped in with four o.
his men and resumed the pursuit. 9th
It er cars, laden TO the running boards
zi with employees of C~hannings, followed
A running battle Of racing cars sweep
a out through the sleeping countryside
and, In due course, down into the val
1t ley of the trestle.
n AS his car took the down grade a
the top OF its speed. the nearest car o
lg the ~fugitives, leading it by a bare twI
n hundred yards, Donald saw the head
lie light OF a locomotive sweep througI
n the cut at the far end of the trestle
i'd like a sword of light slashing III
ID night.
Then, travelling at a fast clip, tn
train ran out on the trestle-a ligh
train, he remarked, consisting Of a sir
Of gle coach in addition to the locomOtiv
Of and tender; in short, a special. sue
e as Patria was accustomed to use.
N By this time his motorcar had d.
scended to the bottom of the vale
and crossed the bridge that spanne'
I'd the river. Ten seconds later a suddeI
In p~remonitiOn drew his attention to tn
Up train; he looked up just in time TO Sc
in the locomotive shoot out at a sharl
angle from the t~restle, twist and fall
- dragging its tender and coach with it
On The crash of the wreck filed tn
he valley like a thunderclap, followed b.
lis a kissing OF escaping steam and IN
a groans and screams Of the injured
train crew.
re Instinctively Donald shut on th'
on gasoline and jammed in h emergency
IS. brake. bringing his car to a halt wtthiI
lst thrice its W length. AS it stopped
Il he Jumped out and began to u across
he fields toward the wreck, his compan
.es Ions at his heels.
su fEND OF TENTH EPISODE.)