Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1917-12-07

artillery ndd Dcen sent Tor, ana learn
ed that they were on their way even
then.
decided to wait around and see
what happened. so | pulled In to the
side Of the road. had hardly stopped
when I heard q rush and rattle that
sounded like an old Glvver I'm the dis.
lance. Around the curve dashed eight
horses on the dead gallop, pulling an
eighteen FOUNDER behind them. They
dashed by. but about City yards ahead
OF me they swung around and trained
that gun on the church.
There was O moments pause, and
then she spoke, and away went steeplc
Germans, machine gun and ALL Tho
FIRST shot had been direct hit. and 1t
couldn't have been better II they had
tried thousand years.
II was the very next day after this
event that got into as tight a tx as
ever care tosfind myself. was order
ed to take three officers to place call.
ed KENNEL | had been there before,
and from what had seen then wasn't
eager about making the trip again.
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expected to be back by B. noticed as
came to the KENNEL road that there
were two sentries on duty there, but
as they only saluted the officers and
didn't say anything | thought no more
about It. Now. KENNEL lies at the foot
OF hill and Is tucked I'm between
Mount Noir and Mount KENNEL. 1t
would be coy little place In peace
time, but 1t is an awful trap to get
caught In when there Is war on.
sent the car up the hill as fast she
could go. and 1t was long climb. AS
we went over the brow and started on
the down grade we ran right under the
nose of tlfe German artillery observers
This road was officially closed and
those sentries should have stopped us
Well. 1t scared me so that I went
\ down that hill so fast those officers
must have thought they were In para.
chute. AS we entered the village the
shells commenced to drop In on us, and
we ran for the nearest shelter, which
happened to be a brewery.
There wasn't much left Of the place
anyway. us 1t had been I'm German
hands, and we had shelled them out OF
1t, and when we had taken 1t they had
shelled us out of 1t. Anyway. we left
the car and crawled into the cellar. 1t
was wet and filthy, but 1t looked just
like heaven to me that day.
We lay there In oil this filth hour
after hour. while the shells literally
poured in all around us. They GER
tainly wasted lot of good ammunition
| trying to get us. but the best Of 1t was
that they didn't succeed. One of the
officers remarked during moments
silence that the crown prince OF Ger.
many must have made his headquar-
ters I'm the place when 1t was In Ger
man hands. Another officer replied
that he wished the crown prince was
| there now.
! We lay there TIL the fire let up,
which II did about 8 o'clock. was
/ worrying about getting back, and I
was also wondering what had become
OF the car. II 1t was gone we might
Just as well kiss ourselves goodby, for
our chances Of getting out on foot
would be slim.
nen tue IRE nau aDated we came
out and looked around. The enemy
certainly had made mess of the place.
for even the top story of the brewery
had been shot away from over our
heads. | went to look the car over, and
you can Just believe was relieved to
find that, aside from having a few
holes through the body. 1t was all
right.
The officers decided to wait until It
was dark before CHANGING to run back.
| didn't know what was going to hap
pen to us. | wasn't very familiar with
the road, and | was afraid they would
have some kind Of barricade up or
have few machine guns trained on us
or something equally unpleasant.
certainly was drcading that ride
hack, but there was no other way out,
and We were between the devil and
the deep sea. Ii was at time like that
that ! wished that had never seen
the British army turned the car
around aud as soon us It was dark we
got In and started. opened her up