Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1917-07-13

our way The enemy was shooting mighty close
too The trenches awfulIy hard to pick up,
although we were only about 80 yards away
They were on hill and had carried their dirt
away.
'sThe battalions made slow progress on the
TANKS on account of the thick underbrush. The
enemy had an immensely strong natural position
and had they had a few machine guns and some
barbed wire they could not have been rooted out
without great loss Of life
a call went up for a hospital apprentice, as
Corporal Frazee had been shot IN the head He
had been working hard getting his gun pointed on
the enemy and had just succeeded
~'You are right on them now; give them ftsP
were the last words he said
His pointer was also shot In the head and two
Others were wounded In the corporal IN
the Thirteenth company was shot twice while
operating a Benet-Sfereier. He refused 70 leave
his gun and had 10 be carried away. struggling 10
get back into the fight.
while this was going on our other guns be
gan to come up one at a time and obtained
fire superiority over the enemy who shot very
wildly from now on This last IS an after iudg-
r.ent AT the time they seemed 70 be just miss
ing me. I don't know how the other men felt
but expected TO be shot any minute and Just
wanted TO do as much damage possible 70 the
enemy before cashing in. Several members Of
our platoon did cool and credtable work in chang
ing cartridge extractors and repairing jams IN
der fire.
I'VE faced the enemy as much as possible while
repairing the guns We had horror OF being
shot IN the back
aOne of the sweetest sounds ever heard
se cheering of the infantry battalion 1t charged
Me right flank trenches of the enemy. Gunnery
Sergeant Ralph was among the first OF these He
had pistol fight with the rebel general in COM
mand Ralph and some other man with rifle
hit him at about the time Result-exit
general
ave moved up r. the trenches after the battle
and reformed getting our equipment together.
Corporal Frazee died soon after being hit and
was buried within & few feet of the place where
he had fought so well The enemy lost very
heavily. and Il Santo Domingo was not an island
some of those birds would De running yet"
Mai Gen. J. Franklin Bell. now IN command
of the eastern department with headquarters
Governors Island won the medal in the Philip
pines As colonel Of the Thirty-sixth infantry he
was proceeding along the San Antonio Porac road
to head off band OF insurgents who had attacked
the Ninth infantry at Guagua and Santa Rita
Colonel Bell mounted. was riding the head
Of the advance party and had with him Lieut.
Col William r. Grove. Major Straab. two mount
ed orderlies and about twelve scouts on foot
Just at dawn the party was fred upon from
what seemed a fairly large body OF insurgents
hidden In the brush. The American fire dislodged
the enemy about seven OF them running down the
but Colonel Bell ar once that the men. with
their heavy equipment, were being easily outdis-
tanced by the lightly clad F1lipinos and he dashed
after them his horse
Before Major Straub or the two mounted order
lies knew what he was doing. Colonel Bell was
far down the road in the midst or seven strug-
Cling insurgents firing with his revolver and
slashing about with his saber.
The mounted men galloped TO his assistance
end Tho frfa S1rr1nOrre<j him they could
with rifle fire. although IT almost impossible
10 shoot so tangied up were the insurgents and
Colonel Bell
The officer would have been perfectly justified
IN remaining with his troops. even behind them
and merely directing the dislodging assault. and
for charging alone and driving into the jungle az
least seven FfipinoS. with two officers among
them. the Medal OF Honor was awarded to him
Two of the few medals awarded In the war
against Spain went 10 3 second class fireman and
coppersmith on board the hattieship Iowa.
While the vessel cruising in CubSn waters.
July 20 1875. at about seven o'clock In the morn
ing. manhole gasket blew out in one OF the
boilers in FIRE room No. ,.
Under 120-pounds pressure. live steam reared
out into the room and boiling water swashed
around the floor.
In the adjoining compartment were Robert
Penn seeond-class fireman. and p B. Keeser.
Hearing the Wild roar OF the es-
Gaping steam they dashed TO the door OF fire
room No. ,.
The men who had been working there. blinded
by the escaping steam houndering in the scald-
NOT get out. One Of the coal paSSers had already
sunk to his knees and was dropping forward
In matter OF seconds ne would have t0ppled
into the water and been boiled 10 death.
Undaunted by the terrifying roar Of the steam