Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-08-30
GERMANS cRUcIFY AMERICANS
Brutality Of Hun Graphically Deserib.
ed by St. Louis Doctor.

Brutality Of Hun Graphically Deserib-
ed by St. Louis Doctor.
How an American private in France
found his brother. q sergeant in the
same regiment, crucified by Germans,
with his hands and feet pierced with
bayonets which held his body against
harn door. was told by DR.. L. H..
Howard. a member Of the Chamber
Of Commerce Of ST Louis, who arrived
at an Atlantic port on Sunday wearing
the uniform Of a Salvation Army relief
worker.
,, Doctor Howard went to France sew
eral months ago to make u personal
Investigation Of the need for war-relief
work at the front, and his return TO
file his report with mercantile organi-
cations at st. Louis. The story Of the
crucifiction. as we'll as details Of fur
ther unbelievable savagery practiced
by German troops upon American SOL
is contained in tabulated documentary
evidence gathered at first hand. Doctor
Howard's statement, which was issued
by the publicity department Of the Sal
walton Army, in part, says:
Doubtless part Of America is
awake to the fact that the Huns must
be exterminated. But from this mo-
ment 1t Is my sole purpose in life to
arouse that other part which because
il does not actually see the horrors
OF war Is not upon its tiptocs TO
win. ! have brought back the evil
dence in many special instances
which will show the hopeless aband-
onment OF the Germans to bestial
practices, as well as the marvellous
ability Of our troops to succeed. and
the serious necessity for sustaining
war-relief work right where it is
right where the fighting is the fiercest.
Brothers Death Avenged.
Let me cite an instance of the
Huns bestiality. A. b. Cole was a
young American resident at 49 Pros
pect street, East Liverpool, y.
July Is found him a sergeant in
the American army and at the front.
His brother \. G. Cole. Is n private in
the same company. When July y
came the Americans in a certain sec
| tor were hammering back the Hun
with terrific daring and force. A. b.
Cole went over the top that day. The
brothers were separated in the fight
ing but later on A. c. Cole, the private,
fighting his way past a half wrecked
outbuilding on farm that had been
swept by the conflict came upon an
American soldier spiked by bayonets
through the hands and feet, stone
dead, Of course. The bayonets were
German. Cole saw that it was his
brother, took down the crucified man,
asked only that the body be laid aside
to get Christian burial, which was lat
er attended to, then plunged on for
ward, and before that day was over he
had evened up q score.
"a. c. Cole survived and later
attended his brothers funeral. l can.
not give the details, but the American
boys are satisfied with the penalty
Fritz paid for that piece of tiendish.
ness.
Wounded Italian Shot.
| Again to show the utter-lack OF
manliness and mercy Of the Hun, there
| Il, .lo ,,,o ~ To,anb Cl,ic,po N ma n
inc gunner, who may come out Of the
war holding the g-distance record
for individual suffering and with the
greatest personal grudge against the
Boche. On July Is, northwest of Chat
eau Thierry, Chicano was movin8.witf
his gunmates uhder protection Of ar
American barrage when a chance sho
put out his right eye. Blinded by th'
blood, but not unconscious, he wa!
captured by oncoming Germans. whit
temporarily bent back the American
thrust Chicano could hardly see hi!
captors, who offered him no first ait
or other relief, but stood him up a
once to be questioned by an officer
THE questions were put In German
which Chicano docs not understand
and to which he, therefore, could no
reply. Waiting only an instant, th'
German officer whipped out a revolvel
and shot Chicano point blank, the bul
let as it later proved. plunged into thu
left side and lodged in his left hip
He dropped and the horde swept on
"Chicano was positively out there
for four days and four nights. endur
ing the terrible wounds, half blinded
without food or aid and barely able tt
stanch the flow Of blood. And then
after an eternity Of misery, the tid'
turned and the Germans, crumblinl
at last before tho onrushing Ameri
cans began to sweep back the othe
way"
Prusslan Guards Annihilated.
Doctor Howard told of the annihila
ton of the crack Prussian Guards b!
the American soldiers. II stood within
a city block of one Of the points of at
tack" he said, land saw the flower o
these Boche fighters rushed forward.
saw Americans tear into them and
don't believe it is profane to say tina
1 saw our men from the United State
simply knock the hell out of them
There isn't enough left Of that picke'
Prussian Guard today to make a re
spectacle link sausage for a cannibal
That particular contingent was wipet
off the map"
| WORK OF WAR DOCTORS