Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-12-05
BROTHER MEETS BROTHER

Edward Gray of Sank City, better
known in Baraboo as "Scotty Gray"
has written to his mother that he met
his brother in France. 1t will be re-
called taht Edward Gray was badly in
gEred in an automobile accident during
a race at the BarboaO fair grounds. For
some time he was in the Baraboo hos
pital
The letter was written in France on
November 2 and in part reads as fol-
lows:
Great news today. A miracle happen
ed. | was sitting on my bunk sewing
buttons and tears on my uniform, when
foi and behold, brother David blew in
and there were great joyous excla-
nations and demonstrations. He stay
ed with me for an afternoon and
night and is gone again. He is at
hospital here in France about a days
HouTney from here and was sent down
this way to a nearby tOtwn and fate
made him stick his head out of the
ed to and ask where the 331st. NJ. G.
battalion was. The M. P. he asked
gold him we were here about two miles
out from the depot, and David gather
de up his belongings and jumped off
the train as it was pulling out and
mixed out here and discovered me at
the last minute as it was
1t is very strange. Perhaps it was
granted me a last meeting as tomor-
row we leave, believe, for the front.
David and | recounted all our exper-
fences last night and slept together
an the same bunk. He is in a very fine
unit and has pretty much liberty and
an easy life. He hasn't had any mail
yet from home and deYoured the few
letters | had, remarking that it looked
good to see the familiar handwriting
again. He has been moved around SO
much that | suppose his mail is fol-
downing him slowly, and he will get it
all at once some day. To show you
how easy time he has, he was telling
me about an awful" hike he had of
four miles with full packs. He opened
ais eyes when told him Of our week
}y hikes Of Is miles with a pack that
Is twice as heavy as his medicine pack
He came over right after we did
and suffered the full effects of the
Spanish influenza at sea. There were
rs dead on the transport he was on
and as many as ESQ men on some of
the ships. He says he used to sit on
she deck at night with DR.. Johnson,
whom he came over WITH and watch
them dropping the dead bodies over
30aTd. We didn't feel the effects of this
plague until we landed and it laid out
some then.
You probably have gotten David's
letters by now relating how he met
Or. Johnson and Doc just stopped
dead and his jaw dropped and he was
speechless with astonishment for a
full minute when he saw David. He is
an France now not very far from
where David is and l am writing him
today.
4 hope I won't need his services again
but it will be just my luck to get all
cut up somewhere and wake up to see
old Doc grinning down at me. How
ever, David says there are few ma
Chime gunners wounded which means
my chances are slim of seeing the in
side of hospital.
Well, l feel like a new man since
seeing David but can hardly believe
3le was here. It seems like dream it
is altogether so impossible, but guess
1t happened all right He is looking
fine and is very happy and has never
been sick day since leaving U. S. A.
Now if | could meet John could meet
meet anything fate has in store for
me