The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-10-26
STORIES OF BRAVERY DISPLAYED
BY FIGHTING IRISH AMERICANS
BOYS of Ninth Massachusetts and Fighting ~Sxtyninth of New York
Die Fighting NTH Smiles on Their Lips, but Huns "Pay"-
Yank. Taken Prisoner by Three Huns, Drops Gre
made and Kills Captors and Self.

mans and an American as good as
dead in Berlin. So / let her co.
"He tried to raise his head and
look around.
"'Neyer mind, boy, you got them
all, / assured him.
"'Any-any chance for me, door he
said.
II didn't answer and he knew. His
remaining hand crept beneath his
blood-soaked tunic, gripped something
tight and stayed there. After a mo-
ment he spoke again.
Doe he said, you know all the
boys around u square. / wish they
could know / was game.
".And, doc his voice was weaker,
will you-will you tell my mother I
had-I had this when-I went
SLOWLY his hand came out slowly
1t opened; that boys hand strangely
old and worn with the bloodstains and
CRIME. Slowly IL opened and there In
the blackened palm glistened a tiny,
bright silver crucifix. He was dead"
Won't Stop Fighting.
It's Chaplain Hanley who tells the
story of the ~Sixty-ninth. They refer
to the chaplain as holding the clerical
record for mileage I'm No Mans land.
They can't keep him off patrols. Chap
lain Hanley knows the story of most
of the casualties of the S%ixty-ninth.
He s~ubstantiates the statement that
not a man has been killed or wounded
by a German bayonet, Notwithstanding
the regiment has encountered In pitch
ed and open battle three of the five
divisions of the Prussian Guard at one
less to say, the Prusslau Guard diyis.
Ion can make no such boast. Father
Hanley says the hardest time they
have with casualties In the Sixty-ninth
Is TO make them stop fighting when
they're hit. He Is himself just recov,
ering from a wounded leg.
'@The officers are as bad as the men,
he declares. 1.-The day | got this
wound l was working up with Captain
Hurley's company. They'd been driv'
VII baNh q ny fitibuS ntIl iu
barrage and they were on a little ridge,
They'd got orders to hold Ii, and they
did, for four days. When they left II
they went ahead.
swell, / was up there this day and
| heard of a wounded man ahead an6
n little to n side, just over the edge
of the hill toward the German lines
i told the captain I'd better go to him
and he wanted to detail a couple oil
men to help me. / declined and start
ed off by myself, crawling or my stom
ach underneath a stream of machine
gun bullets that would have clipped
me had / raised on my elbow.
I'D gone perhaps 90 yards when
heard a rustic I'm the grass behind Inc
and there were two of Hurley's boys
They said the captain had sent then
to carry me back IL anything happened
Now listen to the rest of 1t. / sen
them chasing back to their compan!
and crawled ahead. Just as / got t.
this ridge the bullet got me. M,
wounded man was across an opeI
space and / knew / couldn't get to him
/ was afraid Ii I waited till dark II
bleed to DEATH so l put a t%ournique
on my leg and started back.
Forgot About Wound.
"Now all of this Is just preliminary
They got me back to a hospital a da,
later and I'd hardly got settled In m.
cot when who should they put dow
la the cot next to me but Captain Hur
ley himself. He was badly smashe,
up in the leg, too. The leg had beef
dressed at the dressing station an
when they got him settled they starte,
to take off his clothes. AS they pulle'
at his shirt he let out a howl.
The shirt was stuck to his ches
with blood. He had a wound Their
that the doctors at the dressing sta
ton had neye discovered.
"'Why, captain said the doctor
looking puzzled at the casualty tag
it doesn't say anything about the chest
When did you get this one7'
"'What day is thisf' asked the car
tain.
Wednesday, said a nurse.
"'Now, let's see,' said the captain
Chaplain, you were up there yestel
day. ! must have got this on Mon
day.
"All the time he'd been sending me
out to take car of me he'd had tina
hole In his own chest and the shir
frozen over his big heart with his ow
blood.
"sYou're a captain l said to hin
You're always cautioning the boys t
report wounds and get them cared fol
You stayed up there two days and 20
never eve told me about It,
"'Honest, chaplain he replied.
forgot all about 1t. You know we ha
orders to hang onto that dinky hill
And we were awful busy"
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