Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-11-05
; KILLED, Y
CAPTURED IN
GERMAN RAID.
American Troops Have First
Clash With Enemies
in France.


troops captured by the Germans In
the trench raid on the morning OF
Nov. 3 probably were trapped in
their dugouts and forced to sur
render or be blown to pieces with
hand grenades without u chance
for their lives.
This is the only explanation
which occurs to army officers to-
day. lacking any details of the
fight.
General Pershing's brief report
merely stated that the German ar.
tiiiery had dropped heavy bar
rage fire about a sector of the
trench, cutting the men off from
help No explanation of the eight
casualties and the IL men taken
prisoners was received. The fact
that one wounded German was
captured. however, indicated that
the trench had been re0ccupied BY
the American forces.
Here is the official casualty list:
Killed
PRIVATE THOMAS F. ENRIGHT,
sister, Mrs. Mary Irwin. goal Promo
street. Pittsburgh, Pa
PRIVATE JAMES B. GRESHAM.
mother. Mrs. Alice Dodd, 1901 West
Ohio street, Evansville. Ind.
PRIVATE MERLE D. HAY, father,
Harry D. Hay, Glidden, Iowa
Wounded
PRIVATE JOHN ]. SMITH. brother,
F. D. Smith, box 81, Ludington, Mich.
PRIVATE CHARLES ]. HOPKINS,
brother. James ". Hopkins. Stanton,
Tex.
PRIVATE GEORGE L. BOX. father,
James L. Box, 700 North Grady street.
Altus. Okla.
PRIVATE HOMER GIyENS. father,
/ William F Givens. Cioverdale, Ala.
| PRIVATE CHARLES L. ORR, moth
err Mrs. Sarah Regnell. H. F, D.. No 8.
/ Lyons, Kan
Captured or missing:
SERGEANT EDGAR M HALYBUR-
TON. father, George B. Halyburton.
Stony Point, n. {.
! CORPORAL NICHOLAS L. Null
HALL, mother. Mrs Bridget Mulhall.
189 Ninth street. Jersey City, \. ].
CORPORAL EDWIN H. HAINES,
mother, Mrs Elizabeth Haines, route
! No 4, Woodward, Okla
/ PRIVATE HERCHEL GODFREY.
, father, William G. 0berst. zoo North
/ Ridgewav avenue, Chicago.
PRIVATE VERNON NJ. KENDALL.
father, Sam Kendall, r. F. D., 10. 2.
Roll, Okla
ppIVApI vrrrTJAHr Sprrcpy
mother, Mrs. Lizzie Grigsby, No. 1878
Willow avenue, Louisville, Ky.
/ PRIVATE FRANK E. MDOUGAL,
/ father, R. L. McDougaI, No So East
First street. Maryville, Mo.
( PRIVATE DANIEL B.GALLAGHER.
/ father Neil Gallagher, Blockton, Ala
/ PRIVATE JOHN P. LESTER. faith
er. william Lester. Tutwiler, Miss.
! PRIVATE HARRY LANGHMAN.
relative, Ada r. Langhman, No. 46l
I lakewood boulevard, Chicago.
PRIVATE DEWEY d. KERN, moth
er. Mrs. Eva Tilton, Collins. Iowa.
4 PRIVATE - RECKON. cannot
be identified
Raid Under Heavy Barrage.
American troops of the overseas ex-
peditionafy forces have experienced
their first real clash with the enemy.
In the early dawn OF Saturday a
German raiding party swept over the
parapet Of trench occupied by an
American company. and after briei
hand to hand encounter retired to
their own earthworks with II prison
ers.
General Pershing's first dispatches
reported that three Americans were
killed, five wounded and Il captured
in the engagement
\ Protected by heavy barrage frs
the Germans advanced across y,
Mans land and stormed the American
salient Cut off from reinforcement.
by the rain of German shells, 1t 1
thought the defenders were obliget
TO meet d force greatly superior II
numbers With the exception OF on,
German captured, nothing is known
of the extent of the enemy's losses.
The first fragmentary details mad
No mention Of the location of the fight
but Berlin dispatches indicate that i
was in the region of the Rhine Marn
: canal, in the section defended by III
crown princes forces.
Probably Typical Trench Raid.
, Whether the men and wounded re
ceived their injuries in hand TO han
fighting with the raiding German ir
! fantrymen or were struck down
! Strapped is not known. A single shell
scoring direct hit in the trenci
/ might have caused all the casualtiei
! That would not explain, however, tn
2 surrender of the remaining H.
) The general practice of trench rait
! ing all along the front, hewever, seem
to offer a possible explanation. 1t hs
been customary for French, BIRTHS
e or German raids TO be carried OF
z with an Intense barrage fire used |
0 Isolate the small sector of the enem
[ line which it was planned 10 invade
4 Presumably the American irene
i raided was an advance post. VII
: only 20 men in it, ii could not have ha
= a front OF more than fifty or sixty fee
Y Possibly it was the head OF a Sd
: driven out into No Mans land at rigl