Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-05-13
PAYS HIGH TRIBUTE
TO AMERICAN DEAD
''They Were a Great Bunch Of
Fighters" Says Officer,
at Cemetery.
BY JUNIUS b. WOOD.
Special Correspondence of The Evening
S.ar and Chicago Daily News.

| BY JUNICS ID. WOOD.
Special Correspondence of The Evening
STAR and Chicago Daily News.
| WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN
FRANCE, April 1s.-"They were a
great bunch of fighters, never a one,
with a streak Of yellow" was the trib-
ute made by an American officer to the
two lengthening rows Of dead In the
little Army cemetery. Nearly. all of
them came from Iowa, and moro than
half Of them, including the officer whose
mound was marked by a shining gram
lite cross. had fallen on the same night
in sudden burst Of German Smelling.
| Standing on the hilltop between the
rows of graves one could look Tar
across the valley. nesting between the
for it's glassware, now half destroyed
| in rage when the enemy was forced to
| leave, and see the smoke from the dis
tant rumbling guns. Perhaps In other
days these same boys had stood on
similar hfllsides in their peaceful agri-
| cultural state and watched the sun tip
| the peaks of distant hills, little dream
ing of the bitterness and pain OF war
which were to come to them.
French Decorate Plot.
A rustic gateway. built by French SOL
diers from the straight smooth saplings
| of white birch, marked the entrance to
the little plot. Over the center of the
arch the twigs had been fashioned into
| letters, the same which are the last
| tribute to many thousands in this war
racked country: Mort pour la France"
Inside the walks were neatly graveled.
sod had been banked around each
mound and spring flowers planted on
the graves. All of them had been dug
during the weeks that the American
regiment: had been in that sector COM
French.
At the right of the entrance was the
grave of the first officer Of that famous
American division to be killed in battle.
Eighteen of his men had fallen with
him that same night, and the row of
wooden crosses, stretching along as
they still were in squad formation. each
the one funeral. March 5. 1918.
On the officers grave was the plain
marking marking Capt: Harry Larry, c: Mcsensy;
Pansies, carnations and evergreens
were planted on the fresh earth, and
hanging on the Maltese cross was an
imperishable wreath. three feet in di-
and wire into flowers and the legend:
Les OFFICERS du 169 Infie, a leur valiant
camarade American. Mort au Champ
d'Honneur."
Fought to the Last.
On one of the wooden crosses hung
four of the metal identification tags
which the government requires every
man in uniform to wear: They-Sergts.
Welding and Porsch and two privates
had been in the same Stokes mortar
company and had been blown into
fragments by the same shell. Their
remains were resting in the same grave
Others from. that regiment (whose
number the censorship deletes) under
the rows of crosses were:
Private Louis Mayland, Company I. 1878.
Private Monard Rees. Company D. 1918.
Corp. Dean Parrish, Headquarters Company,
5-3-18.
sergt. Alva Eaton. Company d. 5-s1s.
pany. 1913.
Private Guy o. vorley. Company D. 1913.
ryae B B.. Ro Van k.den n
pany. 1913.
Private Isaac Davis. Company B. 5-3-1s.
Private Clifford Warren. Company B. 6r3-1s.
Private effort Warden. Headquarters Com
Private Smith Williams. Company D. 5-8-1s.
Private Dan ?. Bracelin. Company B. 9-3-1S.
P Pirate Fred Ere Bru9et Company 1Is1s
Private Marvin c: Dunn. Company B. 12-3-1s.
Private Lloyd Culp. Company IL. 1878.
Private Ronald Loran. Headquarters Com
Private Elmer Spears. Company 1. 1878.
Some OF the names may be misspelled.
for the stenciling was done by the French
who assist the American soldiers in car
ing for the little spot American names
NJ G. and H. Q. indicate the machine
gun and headquarters companies. BY
way Of contrast. alone In a far corner OF
the cemetery, is a single grave marked
Bruno Bartusch, 2e. CT 431 Inf. Be- Bon.
5 Gle. P. G. Allemand" He was a Ger
! man soldier.
How the Men Died,
Capt. McHenry and his men were killed
in German demolition barrage on our
first fne trenches on the night of March
| 4. He was one of those trapped in the
dugouts. Others We're killed later when
| they dashed from the dugouts after the
barrage lifted to drive back the German
attack. Not a man in that regiment fall
tered. There were many acts of heroism,
One, Lieut.. Henry A. Peters, who re-
ceived the Croix de Guerre. stands out
conspicuously. He stood in the center of
the barrage. firing Stokes mortar until
its ammunition was gone and then fought
with the rife. Of fallen private until the
attack was repUlsed.
Though the grief was bitter, few could
be spared from the trenches the day OF
that funeral The colonel and other Off
GERS OF the regiment, firing squad, the
buglers to blow the last taps" two
French generals and an escort of a
French company On reserve. did. the last
honOry, Cant McIienry and tho p,e,, Wiz