Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-12
YORK LOSES SCORE
OF VALIANT SONS
IN MIGHTY DRIVES
PENNSYLVANIA Division Covers itself With Glory Comrades
Rechrsten Keystone Boys the Iron Men After Marne
Victory

York. Pa, Aug. 12.-With more
than a score reported killed and Sc
verely wounded in action or missing
since the participation of the Amer
leans in the thick of the fighting on
the front IN France on July l5 last,
\ ork county is maintaining its en-
viable record established during the
Revolutionary War and upheld dur
ing the War of 1912, the Civil War
and the Standardization War. For
several weeks the York boys, who
formerly comprised Companies A and
X of the l12th Infantry, have been
in the most furious engagements,
and have suffered heavy losses.
The first of the local youths to
give his life in the Picardy battle
was sherman w. Letter. son of Mrs.
Alice Letter, Il member of Company
4. Sixth Engineers. He was only s
years old. Shortly after the an
nouncemsut of his death the mother
received a letter from him telling
how he enjoyed being in the struS-
gle. On the same day Melvin n.
Jamison, son of MIR. and Mrs. Nathan
Jamison. Spring Grove, was reported
killed in action.
Corporal Roy \. McClane, 10 years
old. of Battery +, Fifteenth Field
ARTILLERY, aud Calvin A. Carbaugh,
- Years old, private in the Fourth
Infantry. were killed in action about
the same time, although the news
of their death was received several
weeks later.
During the week Mrs. Elizabeth
ShiVe was advised that William Nj.
Shive. private of Company *, 112th
Infantry. WAS killed on July "a. Prl-
Vate Leroy Jury, a son OF Mrs. Isaac
Jury. North York, lost his life IN
the same engagement.
Three in Prison Camps
James T. Fishel, of near Stewards
town. is reported missing, as are Cor
poral Fred Cartside, York, and Her
bert V. Jordan and Robert 9. Mich
ael, of Hanover. The latter three are
believed to he in prison camps. Jor-
dan was with the 506th Medical
Unit. ambulance corps. His only
brother. Wilson Jordan, is mem
Der of the engineers corps in france.
Michael is a corporal of Company a.
Thirty eighth Infantry, and entered
the trenches in May. In recent let
ter to his parents he sald that ne
had got his first Hun. Albertus Abel
and Barton Delnpger. Wrishtsvlle
youths. and Clarence Berkhumer,
West York. have been severely
wounded.
Mrs. j. il. Fredericks. of Lock Ha-
ven, has received word that her son,
Lieutenant Cameron Stehman, VINO
was with the United States regulars
in France and who was wounded has
arrived in New York on hospital
shin with other United States SOL
diers. Mrs Fredericks left for New
York to he with her son. Mrs. Nlr-
ginia Rum berger, of Remove, has re-
Ceived a letter from her son, Leroy
Rumberger who is with Company +;
10Sd Engineers, in which he SAID
that he had been wounded and
gassed. 'rhe letter was written from
a base hospital in France.
The casualty list shows that the
regiment of Captain Edward T. Mil
Ter OF this city, the 1O9th infantry.
took an active part in the defeat OF
the Germans in the Marne region,
Sergeant w. S. Cannon, of Com
pay X, is reported wounded and
there are many other casualties re-
ported from the 109th. Walter My
crs. a former employe of the Penn
sylvania Railroad, at Remove, who
enlisted last year in Battery d and
was appointed sergeant in the 107th
Field Artillery, has recently been
made battalion sergeant major of the
artillery brigade.
Bombed in Hospital
From Il base hospital in France
Lieutenant Guy p. Brown, of the
Rainbow Division, has written a re-
markable letter to his brother, Ray
! S. Brown, of Allentown. Due tc
I hard work in the rain about a month
! ago he developed sciatica and was
sent to a field hospital for treatm ent
! \ German aviator bombed the place
and although the bomb exploded
within tw enty feet of the sick officer
/ he escaped injury. His cot, however
Z was covered with debris. and he re-
marked: Imagine me helpless, ut
! terly unable to move, while | was
raging to get a shot at the scoun'
J drel."
| There was. however. swift retribu.
tjon for this example of German
| trightfulness. Near the field nos
| pital was = French pen filled will
| German prisoners. The same lvia'
tor, on the same trip. missing hi!
| hospital target, dropped a bomb into
| the pen and more than 100 of tht
| German prisoners were killed out
right. The carnage was frightful
with the wounded unable to hell
themselves behind the barbwire en-.
tanglement forming the pen.
Lieuteant Brown is improving il