Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-01-02

cred and fed our horses. Then I took
my blankets and beat it to lonely
spot and laid down to catch few
minutes sleep. / think slept about
an hour. To be sure / didn't miss
breakfast. Gee, l was hungry after
breakfast when Lieut. Shea came
along and told us to get ready; we
were going to move again. We start
ed at ten bells and hiked all the rest
of that day and night. Morning found.
us alongside of road and so it kept
on for five days and nights, hiking
most Of the day; watering feeding and
shoeing horses along the road. At
last we came to a big woods; we
knew we were nearing the front Oh
yes, we could hear the roar of the
big guns in the distance. The gun
crews started out ahead of us and the
rest of the battery was to follow. We
landed at a fairly good place right
near a field hospital. That night when
we were stringing up a picket line
for our horses a German aerOplane
came over had and started dropping
bombs and he dropped them pretty
close. Gee you know I have lost my
tongue for minue. But the evening
wasn't over. It seemed to me this
German was after this hospital and he
sailed over our heads for long while
dropping bombs on the road. WellzI did
no sleep that night and when morn
ing came we had something to talk
about. We were wondering if Jerry
was going to come over again. Pret-
ty soon we got orders to move up
Closer Didn't know what to make
Of it; but at the same time | was
glad to move from where l was. We
moved up quite ways and this place
was nice during the day but oh my,
at night. Say German planes used
to bomb us right. During the day
they would come over the lines and
dive for our observation balloons
then we could see them jump to save
their lives in a parachute Things
began to get hot for us but interest
ing. l wasn't up there long before
works like a time clock. (But it is
different now.) And say they used
for our horses a German airplane
came overhead and started dropping
bombs and he dropped them pretty
close. Gee you know | half lost my
tongue for minute. But the German
was after this hospital and he sailed
over our heads for a long time drip
to shell us every meal time regularly
and believe me when they did shell
they would let us have it right. We
had no revellie at the front. The Ger
mans woke up us by sending us some
of the first hardware made in Berlin.
Again / say things were getting hot
for U.S. Gas used to be a big factor
in getting the Americans. They would
send over what is known as the
sneezing gas SO we couldn't keep our
gas masks on and then he would
send over the mustard gas which if
you get enought of will cause a pain
, full lingering death. But we fooled
old Jerry. We would put just the
nose clips on for sneezing gas and
when the real stuff came over we
covered our eyes. We lost some men,
l dare not mention the number.
But the way those German buzZers
went for our balloons was interesting
to watch | saw Fritz make three
dives for balloon and the fourth dive
he got it with tracer bullet; it sets
fire to the balloon. Cts common
thing to see it now.)
One day Fritz came TO get one
of our balloons. >He got the balloon
all right but we got him. The poor
Fritz never got back to sauer kraut
land to tell what he saw. / was
standing near one of T.. our machine
guns at the time and so took a few
shots at him. When his machine
came down it turned over and he got
out and started to run, but he did
not get far 1t was good job that
some of our officers were standing
near or we would have lynched him.
You would have died laughing the
other night While we were eating
supper Jerry startd to shell us. Say,
do you know he sent over five big
shells inside OF two minutes. One
landed right near where we were eat
ing. You should have seen the bunch
beat it away from that kitchen.
dropped my mess kit, kicked over my
coffee and started to run. We know
, when to run, being old timers at the
game and from experience we know
sure enough a few more came ever.
When we got back to our kitchen
after the Smelling it was just like
walking into saloon 'and having q
free lunch, because there wasn't a
cook to be seen. SO had seconds
! thirds, and some fellows had fourths-
all we wanted to eat. You know II
seemed that Fritz was trying to put
our kitchen out Of commission.