New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-09-26
NEW ULM MAN HAS
AN EXCITING TIME
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about ten minutes after we got him in the
hospital, but the other fellow will pull
thru all right.
''But that was a wild night. The
main firing had drifted farther down
town, but it was still plainly audible.
Bullets were dropping in our camp, and
whizzing thru the trees, and we standing
in line there like bunch of sheep, with
out even cap pistol in the whole bunch
to fire back with.
Regulars Arrive by Trolley.
"About 1890 the regular troops be-
gan to arrive from Galveston. They had
made the trip over by inter-urban in
forty minutes, a distance of fifty miles.
The men were unloaded at the camp
here, put into army trucks and whizz-
ed down town in twenty trucks with
about twenty men in each. The re-
lief of the crowd when the soldiers came
down the street, could easily be heard
in the voices when the civilians yelled
their welcome The men with their
six-shooters and shot guns, who had
been hiding in houses, callers, bitches,
and woods, fighting like wild cats, (for
these Southerners sure can ight) jumped
out to the street and yelled themselves
hoarse and crazy. We could follow the
cheering about mile down the street
as the trucks went up, the yells coming
out plainly and clearly above the rattle
and roar of the guns.
'The main firing died down about
midnight, but all thru the night we
could hear sudden sharp fussilades as
the searching parties discovered negro
hidden out somewhere. They didn't
ask or give the negroes a chance to sur
render, but just shot 'em down as they
came onto them. And all day Friday,
sometimes near and farther away, there
would be quick bursts of, firing. The
papers don't give the, total of deaths.
The civilians are still up in the air and
on the watch out for stray negroes from
the Twenty-fourth Illinois. There are
still sixteen of them missing.
''The tension is still high, and will
probably remain so for while. I went
down town yesterday to the theater,
and about 9 clock in the evening as we
came out of the show we were told
that orders had come down town for all
uniformed men to 60 out to Camp Logan
at once, as another riot had broken out.
Well, we started for camp in hurry,
and excited, because we thought we'd
see some fun before we got. out here, but
it was false alarm. The Rangers, who
had arrived in camp that morning, had
found another negro right near the camp,
and there were a few shots exchanged
before they got him.
''The houses were all dark tho when we
got to the end of the car line, and we
had ticklish walk of mile and quarter,
thru a pitch black street where most
of the fighting had been going on two
nights before. We heard nothing, tho
and today everything is quiet.
Likes City of Houston.
Houston is a pretty town and live,
of about $4,000 population. There
are seventeen railroads connecting with
the seam, which is reached thru a
long bayou that comes clear up to-the
town. The pee PIE are fine and very
hospitable. We seldom have to ride a
street car down town, for the autoists
will always pick us up, if they have
room, and they treat us mighty nice.
''Of course Houston business places
are like every other business place high
priced to the point of robbery, but I
suppose they can't help it here any more
than they can anywhere else. It's rather
tough on some of us fellows, for the
clothes the government issued us at
Jefferson Barracks, Mo-, are disgrace
to the country. Most Of us are ashamed
to be seen down town with 'em. -, The
uniforms had been packed away since
the Spanish-American war, and were
made for men about three times our
average size. Only a few of us got
army shoes, real ones; the others re-
ceived regular clod-hopper boots, about
four sizes too big, and heavy as lead.
Some of the hats were shoddy, turning
color when wet and losing their shape.
They didn't issue any of the collar
ornaments or hat bands, so we are
obliged to buy them out of our pockets,
because they are required"
Is Lonesome Down There.
Mr.. Teichrow, since his enlistment,
has been at Jefferson Barracks, Mo-,
and in camp at Indianapolis, and then
transferred to Camp Logan. He in
Inmates in his letter that he would ap-
preciate letters from his New Ulm
friends, as he says he gets pretty lone
l.