Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-02-26
TOM SEWARD OF PINE BLUFF HURT
 IN FRENCH LINE
Local Boy Invalided Home Because of Shell Shock
 While With Pershing

Thomas M. Senyard. mentioned in d Baltimore dispatch to the Little Rock Gazette of yesterday as being invalid ed to the base hospital at Fort Me- Henry from France because of shell shock, suffered in the trenches in France, is son of Mrs. G. A. Oaks, 1910 Alabama street. MT. Oaks, form eIly member of the American navy, is now employed as machnist with the Martin Machinery company.
 Senyard is a son of the late Thom- as Senyard, Little Tom" he was called by relatives and friends, who died here about nine years ago. MT. Senyard's death was preceded some months by an accident that caused the loss of his right hand, He was police officer, and one night he ob- served to be open the door of An- gells store, located where Franey ts Culpepper are now situated. Within he saw what appeared to be kit of burglars tools. He reached in to pick up the satchel, and in so doing fired gun set as burglar trap by the owner. The charge tore off Mir. Senyard's hand.
 Thomas Murray Senyard, the young soldier, is but 19 years of age. He was formerly employed as a messen ger by the local Western Union of flee. He enlisted in the army last March, and was among the first American troops sent to France. His mother, Mrs. Oaks. and his grand mother. Mrs. D. I. Phillips, have re- ceived several interesting letters from him. He is expected to visit Pine Bluff as soon as he recovers suf- tiGiently to leave the hospital.
 Talks of Experiences.
 The dispatch from Baltimore fol- lows:
 Baltimore, Md, Feb. 24.-Onc of the patients who has just been brought back from France and plac- ed in the base hospital here at Fort McHenry, is Private Thomas M. Sen yard of the - Infantry. His home is in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. Senyard has seen service ill the front line trenches in France, and has been lover the top" While in France his heart became affected, due to the life in the trenches and also due to shell shock. He has been brought back to this country to underg otreatment and after recovering will probably be sent back to the fighting line.
 He trained when he first went lover the top" last June, with the 54th Chasscurs, a French regiment.
 "They are some fighters, take it from me-" said iSenyard in speaking of the Chasseurs. "They won't take a prisoner and they won't surrender. They are the one French regiment that has really got the Germans goat. They are afraid of them."
 Asked how it felt to go lover the top," Private Senyard said "lt wasn't so bad.'
 "The first time I went over," he said, was on raiding party. There was ruined French village right out in No Mans Land between the, trenches. We had thought for several nights that there was a German pa trol hiding in one of the houses still standing, and we went out one night to get it. There were about 60 of us and we advanced to the place under a heavy barrage fire. When we got to the house we surrounded it, and didn't find a German. So we came DdCk. leIe WClcH CIlOusA VI uo 'o send against a trench. We didn't lose anybody"
 Private Senyard says that for some time the French were little distrust- full of the prowess of the Sammies, after an American gunner knocked the steeple off church, When they found out, though, that the church steeple was supposed to have con- tained some German observers, they came around.