Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1919-10-03

dash through that little three or
four foot lane. It took a Simon-pure
courage to dare that, but that days
objective was important and must be
reached. Sergeant Sandlin is very
reticent about talking of the details
Of that soul-scaring experience but
Thousandsticks of Hyden, where he
is now staying with his brother,
John Sandlin, publishes his simple
story of it as follows:
"The line had been ordered to stop
and advance and the men lay down
on the ground to avoid the machine
gun fire. Sandlin, instead of lying
down, and beyond the call of duty,
charged the machine gun nest alone,
armed with four grenades, with his
pack and rifle on his back and a
bayonet land advanced within seven
ty-five yards of the nest and threw
his first grenade which fell short of
the nest about Is steps and exploded
without effect. He then ran some
thirty yards toward the nest and
threw the second grenade which hit
the nest. He then threw the other
two hand grenades, and then charged
the nest. Finding two men still un-
hurt he put them out of action with
his bayonet. During the time of this
charge the enemy empied two auto
matte revolvers at him. Later in the
day he attacked, alone, two other
machine gun nests and put them out
of action"
Imagine the scene. A veritable
hail of machine gun bullets wildly
seeking to reach him on either side
of his narrow lane, and then hun
automatics barking at him viciously,
the while he was running a hundred
yards or so up his narrow path to
finally hurl his grenades unerringly,
then on into the nest itself, finishing
up the eight men there with the
bayonet.
With that his part OF the Inc ad-
vanced, and the other hun machine
gun nests were quickly flanked. The
second hun machine gun line was
quickly reached and again Sergeant
Sandlin did almost Immediately the
same thing in the same way, he fin
ished off the eight men in that nest
with grenade and bayonet. His part
of the line advanced and quickly that
part of the hun line was flanked and
mopped up. Then he went on to a
third machine gun nest in the same
way, finishing off the crew of eight
men with grenade, automatic and
bayonet, whence the American line
went through to it's objective, which
Sergeant Sandlin was determined
that it should do. Thus it is known
that he settled "a huns that day.
How many more he does not know.
He was in the thick Of the fighting
throughout with grenade, rifle and
automatic.
| Sergeant Sandlin's remarkable
feats of arms were Of exceptional
military importance, since they were
the means of letting the line through
to the days objective. Some con-
slider that this factor causes his days
work to excel that Of Sergeant York.
The latter was suddenly surprised in
the very jaws of hell and fought his
way out with unparalleled magnific-
ence. On the other hand Sergeant
Sandlin cody ran into the jaws of
death-into the, mouth of hell, into
dangers infinitely greater than that
of the puny, old-time artillery; charg-
cd by the Light Brigade, famed in
song and story. His quicmess, his
GOODNESS, his unerrins aim enabled
him to accomplish what he set out
to do.
The poet singing of that other hero