Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-02
ANOTHER STATE
REGIMENT GETS
IN BATTLE LINE
Iron Division, 10Th in Action,
Writes Member From
the Front

Philadelphia, Sept. Another
iron division regiment of field ar
tiiiery has pushed forward to the
oattleline to give the Huns a taste
OF Pennsylvania steel.
Caolegrams to relatives from boys
Oh the 107th artillery indicate that
units of this regiment have been in
action. Sergeant Edward ]. Fisher.
OIL Battery d. Williamsport, has been
wounded and is in a base hospital.
The 10th comprises batteries
from Phoenixville. Bethlehem, Will
Transport and Pittsburgh, originally
the First artillery, National Guard
OF Pennsylvania, and at Camp Han
COCK combined detachments from
the former Fourteenth infantry and
cavalry troops from New Castle and
Pittsburgh.
A week ago cablegram from Col
onel Asher Miner. the commanding
officer, brought word that the 1O9th
artillery, Wilkes Barre regiment, had
also been in action.
Letters from the front tell how the
keystone state boys forget their own
dangers in pitying the plight of the
French countryfolk in the war zone.
1t is certainly awful to see these
towns and farms around here"
writes Private Joseph Wargo to his
mother of Phillipsburg. "The people
were chased out, leaving everything.
In some of the homes you can find
tables set, where they were ready
to eat.
Many of the farmhouses were hit
by shells. The cattle are running at
large in the fields. One fellow told
me to-day that he is located near a
farmhouse and that there had been
four cows. pigs, chickens and horses
running about the place for several
days. The next morning they found
them all dead in the field, riddled
with shell.
THE people simply did not have
time to take a thing with them.
They had to go and leave the dishes
unwashed. But believe me. we are
going to give them some of their
own medicine. And when we give it
to them, they won't have time to
rum"
The letter was written Just six
days before the Pennsylvania boys
turned on the Hun, drove him back
from the Marine and redeemed the
farms for the French.
Following the retreating enemy,
the Pennsylvania boys rescued other
families who had been behind the
German lines.
Some of the boys have just return
ed with five old men and three or
four old women and some children,
who were left. in town on the
lines" writes Private, Ellsworth
Seiple, headquarters company, 149ths
machine gun battalion, with the
Rainbow division. His home is at
Easton.
Il don't see how they ever lived
through the battle that took place
in that town the last few days. Why,
1t was just one big curtain of steel"
With the 112th infantry of the Iron
division entering Chateau Thierry
was Jonas E. Worrall, headquarters
company, of Conshohocken. The
company was only twelve hours be-
hind the Germans.
I'VE have been marching for two
hours with gas masks on. trying to
keep out of shell holes and lodging
shells by running to get under cover
of the HILL" he writes.
Worrall pays tribute to the Y. M.
c. A. workers. "The Light Brigade
are cannon to the right of me, anti
aircraft guns on the left of me. can
non to the back of me and the Y.
M. C! A. having some sort of song
service in front of me. However, it
sounds goods, for 1t is the only re-
semblance of the religion that we
have at all. The Y. M. c. A. man
say that we all think of God. even
if it is only when the big shells come
over"
Additional praise for the "Y"
workers with the Iron division Is
given by Ralph I. Dunlap. of Pine
Grove, with the 107th machine gun
battalion.
There are no towards nor slack
ers in any organization on this side
of the Atlantic" he writes. Some
think the Y. M. c. A. workers keep
out of the great danger, but such is
not the case. They, too, are playing
their part. The courage and tehacity
they exhibited during the present
German attack have enabled the or
ganization to meet the terrible lists
in a manner that reflects great
credit on the red triangle.
Fifty secretaries working with
American troops on the most ex-
posed portions of the front have been
constantly under shell fire and gas
attacks, but the efficiency of the
system of distributing supplies has
not been interrupted. The 7. M. c.
A. men worked in their gas masks.
All of the selling in the canteen had
to be- done at night, becaGse no SOL
diers were allowed to collect about