Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-08-11
DIDN'T LOSE LEGS.
JUST GAVE THEM
Former Star Baseball Player
Gives His View
of War.
TELLS OF MUSTARD GAS
On St. Quentin Front He Crawls
Through Fire to Res
cue Friend.
TELLS OF MUSTARD GAS

LONDON, August lo.-First- ha nd
thrilling stories of Uncle Sans first
war victims were told the Universal
Service here today by wounded Amer
lean officers IN a Rcd Cross hospital
here.
Lieutenant w. J. McG.cgor. Pitts
burgh physician and former first base
man for the Chicago Cubs. pointed to
the stubs OF his two legs.
I'm never play baseball again"
There was bit of pathos in his face.
but he smiled as he said It. Both legs
were gone about the knees.
How did you lose them?"
Lose them" Indignantly. IT didn't
lose them. gave them to my coun-
try.
"A she'll exploded in the midst of a
column OF US marching up to tho 'front.'
line trenches. Eight were killed out
right and four wounded by that one
she'll
1T was in the first push around
Ypres. March 30. We had been Fight
ing and re,reatins for nine days. 1
was the medical officer Of an English
battalion. II was some excitement, be-
nevc me. ! vas busy night and day
on the evening OF the ninth day the
order came to march TO the front
Fritz was only about four miles away.
He kept peppev!ng our road and vi
cinity with lively barrage. which
we ducked through at intervals when
ever it lifted
suddenly l heard @ whistling noise
and the bomb pumped down in the
middle OF US, about ten feet from me,
and exploded. That's all remember
until l came TO in a hospital behind
the lines, shy two legs"
Dr.. c. T. McCarty. Philadelphia ply
stefan, who has won the military cross
and bar. is another member of the
medical officers reserve corps, U. S. r.,
at the hospital.
Pale and gaunt. his face tells the
story Of frishtful mustard gas at
tack. Some OF 1t got through his
mask and affected his lungs. He went
through this gas attack. rcscuing and
min!stering to the wounded. He kent
at this errand OF mercy until he
dropped.
Previously. on the ST.. Quentin front
he went through 4 machine-gun bar
rage and rescued a wounded English
officer. returning unscratched himself.
"Oh. It's nothing" he said modestly.
Blu: his comrades told the story.
GETS PIECE OF SHRAPNEI.
THROUGH ONE LUNG
DR.. H. c. Updegrove. Eaton, Pa. ply
stefan, had just survived an operation.
y piece OF shrapncl was taken from his
lung.
II was in the third. battle OF Ypre.
when the Germans thanked u.s." he said.
hap
stuck to the last. Then legged |,
amid hail Of bullets and shrapnel.
FINALLY piece OF shrapnel got me in
the lung.
Luckily ! wasn't knocked out. I
remained conscious and managed 70
siagger to q road. where British
officers car picked me up and rushed
me 10 a hospital"
Lieutenant Updegrove has a military
cross for previous heroic action and
devotion TO service under fire. Through
heavy barrage he continued 10 move
back and forth between a field dress
ing hospital near the line and a base
hospital. ministering 10 the wounded.
and experimenting their removal
Hes lucky" said Lieutenant II. D.
Mcneil, Bangor Nc i've still got
piece OF shrapnel in my lung. can't
breathe very well. but l guess it'l
stick with me for life.
We were marching up to the front
line between Yprcs and Bcthune about
y. NJ, April 9. You can hear the
whistlinS Of nearly all bombs. but
didn't hear the one that got me. 1t
Just Topped down in the midst OF us
and exploded. About a dozen OF MS
were killed or wounded"