New Britain herald., 1918-03-04

know I never believed that many existed. One burst near where I was. A piece hit a fellow on the other side of me who came from Texas. The Corporal picked him up in his arms and started with him for q first-aid station in the midst of q perfect shower of dirt and mud which was being kicked up. I don't know whether he ever got there or not. That time I got into q machine gun emplacement with another corporal, whose home is in Missouri, leaving my rifle outside. Things got So hot we decided to try to get to a steel shelter at the end of trench.
 The Corporal went first, but a few feet away a shell exploded almost on hlm and killed him. I stepped out and saw that my rifle had been blown 10 pieces. This left me defcnseIess. so started in another direction, hop Ing 10 ind a, rifle or a pistol, because | Knew the Germans would be around soon. About the same time a piece ot shell hit me on the left side and down I went. A Sergeant yelled an order for me to go to a tirst-aid sta- tion.
 'I was just approaching the sta tOn in the rear of two StretchCr-bear- ing teams, who were proceeding bent over to escape if possible the flying pieces of shell, when a shell plumpeH down on top of the station, exploded, and wiped it out. A piece 0f rock hit me in the head. When I woke up some stretcher bearers had me- haul ing me over the shell holes.
 i've sure got to hand it to those cd oJ1 arms. They all worked like dogs in have but one idea-to do their duty--- their own lives while doing it. They were game right to the core"
 Red Cross Men Injurcd
 In this connection it may be said that there are @ certain number of men who wear the Red Cross whose names re on the casualty list.
 An artilleryman from New Jersey described what happened in the glil!- pits.
 "I was asleep in the dugout when the fun began" he said. We r1n out to the gun. The shells were rain- ing down all around. Then came tie order for barrage, and we let them | have it. One shell hit near the pit and loOsened the logs overhead. Af ter that every time we fired, the con- cusSlOn brought down one or two logs. Mud, stones, and pieces of shell came in at the front. Five spokes were knocked from one wheel of tic car- riage. and the gun muzzle WAS nick ed Two or three men were slightly hit and laid away at the end or the -l1 ing.
 'Suddenly d piece Of steel came through the gun shield which was behind and hit me in the shoulder. About that time We were H1l tatri,d to the dressing station, and here I 2'll. I don't mind this wolind but I hope to the Lord it gets well soon, 90 that I can get back With my Outfit.''
 All the infantrymen asked nueS- tions regarding the fate of their com rades. Keen distress was 1spiuNed by all the men of the company cDrj- handed by the Captain who was kilt cd. One of them said:
 He was d fine officer, aud, believe me, he took care of his men. Any one of the company would have gone through hell at his order. We will pay Fritz for that if we haven't already done SO"
 A Kansas man who was in the h2ht said the last he saw of the Captain he was kneeling alongside a splitting machine gun and blazing aWy Ut the Germans with his own auto matic Dis tol. "I saw him fall flat added the private.
 The Captain was killed ny A Su)l- shot wound in the chest. All the American dead have now been buried in a little sraveYard q few hundred yards from the spot where they fell. The German bodies also have been collected and buried near them.
 Washington, March 4.--Five Amer jeans, including 8 lieutenant, were killed: five severely wounded and four slightly wounded in the Ger man raid against the American l trenches to the north of Foul on l March 1, the war department an nounced today. The list follows: Eadie. Harold F., lieutenant, Til 1 ton, N. II.
 Amodel. Anthony, sergeant, Baiti- 1 more.
 Parsons, Edgar, private, Obids. x. C.
 Henry, Harry J., private, Logans- port, Ind.