Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-10-02
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Special to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines. Oct. 2.-Battle Scared
youths from the fighting fields in
France continue to arrive at the big
reconstruction hospital now being
maintained by the government at Fort
Des Moines. During the past ten days
some two hundred men have come in.
There are now about $50 men in the
hospital which is almost one. fourth Of
the total capacity Of the big institu-
ton.
The men are naturally happy to get
back to the good old U. s. A. but
those who are not seriously in
capacitated are anxious to get fixed
up" and go back overseas so that they
can. il possible, be in at the finish.
In accordance with the governments
plan those coming to Fort Des Moines
are for the most part men whose
homes are in the middle west, this be-
ing the nearest hospital to their homes.
When the wounded and i'll first ar
rive. from overseas in New York har-
Dor they are transferred to debarka-
ton hospitals and from these to re-
ceiving hospitals. At the receiving
hospitals the men are segregated ac-
cording to wounds and diseases. At
the earliest possible opportunity they
are transferred to the reconstruction
hospitals.
i6akh Veterans Sent Home.
Veterans Of the famous 16Sth infan-
try arc included in the disabled men
who have reached Fort Des Moines.
Saturday the following men from the
1Ssth regiment reached camp: Rupert
Gamble, A company. Winterset; Yes
ter Benson. c company, Cresston; ;.
Ulysses Oeh2er. ID Company, Thomp-
son. Iowa: Joel Boone. M company.
Red Oak; Robert Dorman, H company.
OSkaloosa. Another 1oWan in the
party was Aurora D. Grub. formerly
with the band OF the Twenty third
infantry.
The men report that since the time
when the 16sth began to be used as
shock troop the Organization has lost a
great many men. The personnel is
now fs.s different from what it was
when it left Iowa rs the companies
are filed - with replacement troops
as rapidly as they are thinned out.
Private Dorman, Of Company H, re-
ports that there were only thirty men
OF the original personnel of Company
NJ left when ne left France. He was
shot in the right forearm at Chateau
iThiery where many Of his company
fell.
Rupert Gamble. of Winterset, reports
that when 50 many members OF Com
pany A lost their lives last spring be-
cause Of gas the men were suffering
from trench fever and it was difficult
for them to secure and adjust their
masks in time. Gamble had a portion
of his knee cap shot away. However.
he is on the mend.
Weston Benson, of Creston. was in
jured by hand grenade last May
while fighting in the Lorraine sector.
He was so badly injured that he was
not able to return to the fighting but
Is now improving.
Ulysses Oehler, OF Thompson. Com
pany 2. has three machine gun
wounds in his right hand and arm. He
members Of his company left.
Joel Boone. Of Company NJ. Red Oak.
Is suffering from gun shot wound in
the right shoulder.
Aurora D. Grubb, of Davenport,
former member Of the Twenty-third
infantry band, reports only five men
left Of this organization, formerly
having thirty-two members. He acted
as a stretcher bearer at Chateau
Thierry.
There are over fifty soldiers at the
big hospital who were on the steamer
Mount Vernon torpedoed some 300
miles off the French coast Sept. 5.
There were 100 wounded men on the
ship and they were given every at
tention possible. Thirty-nine of the
sailors were scalded to death. They
were trapped in the engine rooms
when the steam pipes burst and the
fiHeproof doors closed AUTOMATICALLY,