Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-08-12
Carbon DiOxide Poisoning Claims
Anton Huhn on u. S. Cruiser
Huron
BODY WILL BE BROUGHT
HOME FOR INTERMENT
Lad Enlisted i'm Navy Last November.
Was ON Long Cruise To The
Orient

Just couple of days after they
had received letter reporting their
son, Anton, as looking well and feeling
fine, Mr.. and Mrs. Joe HUM, who live
512 miles south of Conrath, received
a telegram, Wednesday morning, from
the L. 5. Bureau of NAVIGATION at
Washington containing the news that
Anton had died OH the United States
Cruiser Huron on Aug from carbon
dloXide poisoning. Whether his death
resulted from an explosion on board
the ship or from some other accident.
was not stated in the telegram.
The parents were asked to inform
the bureau if they desired the body to
be shipped home or inferred in one
Of the U. s. naval cemeteries. Mr..
HUM has wired to Washington asking
that the remains be sent to Conrath
for burial. 1t is probable that the Am
erican Legion will take charge of his
funeral, but it will be several weeks
before the body arrives here, as the
Huron is somewhere in the Orient
Anton, who was Is years, 10 months
death, was a second class seaman Un
the Huron. He enlisted in the navy
last November at Great Lakes, Ill
Prior to enlistment, he lived with his
parents at Conrath. Besides his
parents, he is survived by four broth
ers, Joseph, of DeFOrest, Wis. Peter,
Of Depere; Nick, of Mayville; John,
of n o1C IV ,ir
Anna Alexander, HolcOmbe; and Mrs.
Peter Thomas. COnrath.a~~
His parents received a letter from
him in June, but the last report of
him was received the first Of this
week i'll a letter written to Mrs. HUM
on July IL, by woman formerly a
resident OF upper Wisconsin, now liv-
husband was a shipmate pal of An
tons and she saw and became acQuaint-
ed with the latter when the ship was
in that port in July. Her letter is
as follows:
12S Wei Hal Wei Road,
Shanghai, China,
July II, 1921.
jcdE MIS-.
It's bit lonely-One's first Fourth
OF July away from the United States
and your boy, Anthony, aboard The
Huron" was SO nice 10 us, showing
us all about the ship and talking TO
us of Wisconsin that's my home
that I'm writing you wee note TO
tell you how well he looked and to
send snapshot of him and my hus-
band.
We did enjoy the "Huron''-sO big
and gray and bristling with guns.
The boys have excellent food | think,
anyway there was a salad in the mix
ing that looked-oh, so good.
And to think of them having NOV
every night l was born in north
most part Of Wisconsin. SO miles from
a railroad, SO you see how those NOV
les struck me aboard battleShip
away over here on the China edge of
the Pacific.
My family now are scattered. l.
lived in New York City before | came
here, but for long time there were
some of us at Green Bay, Fond dU
Lac Marshfeld, RipOn, and Crandon-
We loved Wisconsin and | can't
think now Of any good reason for
leaving. In the early days, my father
was q lumberman at TigertOn.
So. when we met Il Wisconsin boy,
we were happy. | know you must
miss him terribly, but I'm sure he's
happy and it is such a wonderful ex-
Derience for him to have.
When | think of the trees back
home and the good water-but | won't
we have neither here.
Good wishes from a WiscOnsonian
ALICE CARTER McCLUSKEY.