The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1917-08-03

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Tumbisd In on Top Of the Four.
the trench he followed us, still hold
ing his hands up and repeating. Mercy.
kameradr' At the next trench angle
we took Ave more prisoners, and as
Godsall had been slightly wounded In
the arm l turned the captives over to
him and ordered him to take them to
tie rear. Just then the men OF our
second were Game over tine parapet
like lot OF hurdlers. In Ave minutes
We had taken the rest OF the Germans
in the trench section prisoners, had re
versed the fire steps and had turned
their own machine gun against tlose
of their retreating companies that we
could catch sight OF.
AS we could do nothing more here.
| gave orders to advance and re-en-
force the front line Our way led
across field furrowed with shell holes
and spotted with bursting shells. Not
man hesituted. We were winning.
That was all we knew or cared to
know. We wanted To make II GER
tainty for our fellows who had gone
ahead. AS we were proceeding toward
the German reserve trench | saw four
Of our men. apparently unwouded, ly-
ing In shell hole. | stopped to ask
them what they were doing there. AS
| spoke ! held my German rifle and
bayonet at the position OF guard" the
In nS hn a
shoulder high. didn't get their an
swer, for before they could reply
felt sensation as II some one had
thrown lump Of hard clay and struck
me on the hip, and forthwith | tum-
bled I'm on top OF the four, almost
plunging my bayonet into one Of them
a private named Williams.
McClintock Badly Wounded.
We'll, now you know what's the
mutter with u.s." said Williams. 1--WE
didn't fall In, but we crawled In"
They had all been slightly wounded.
| had twenty-five pieces OF shrapnel
and some shell fragments imbedded In
my left leg between the hip and the
knee. | followed the usual custom OF
the soldier who has got it." The first
thing l did was to light flag" (ciga.
rette) and the next thing was to In.
vestigate and determine IL l was In
danger of bleeding to death. There
wasn't much doubt about that. Ar
terial blood was squirting from two OF
the wounds which were revealed
when the other men In the hole helped
me to cut off my breeches. With theiI
aid I managed to- stop the hemorrhag,
by improvising tourniquets with rag;
and bayonets. One | placed as higf
up as possible on the thigh and the
other just below the knee Then W,
all smoked another flag" and lay ther,
listening to the big shells going Owe
and the shrapnel bursting near us. 1
was quite a concert too. We discusse,
what we ought to do, and finally
said:
Here, you fellows can walk, and
can't. Furthermore, you're not able t
carry me because you've got about al
any Of you can do to navigate alone
1t doesn't look as II It's going to b
any better here very soon. You al
proceed to the rear, and II you can ge
some one to come after me I'll b
Obliged to yOu."
They accepted the proposition be
cause 1t was good advice, and, besides
IL was orders. | was their superio
officer. And what happened righ
after that confirmed me forever In m
early, Kentucky bred conviction tina
there is great deal iu luck. The
couldn't have travelled more than fift
yards from the shell hole when tn
shrek of high eX los!re seemed
come right down ont OF the sky int