Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1917 — MANY AMERICANS ARE KILLED ON BATTLEFIELDS OF EUROPE [ARTICLE]

MANY AMERICANS ARE KILLED ON BATTLEFIELDS OF EUROPE

Stories of Their Daring Deeds Trickle Over to the United States From Time to Time, but the Vast Majority of Their Exploits Will Go Unsung Many Are in the Foreign Legion.

New York.—Of the 40,000 Americana (a rough estimate) fighting in the armies of the entente allies, several thousand have been killed or wounded.' Stories of their deeds of bravery and their gallant ends trickle over to the United States,from time to time, but the vast majority of their exploits will go unsung. The total of American volunteers participating in the - great war will never be accurately known. Many thousands would also be fighting for Germany and her allies, undoubtedly, If the British blockade did not prevent them from reaching the front. A Yale undergraduate, Karl Lewellyn, who happened to be In Germany when the conflict began, accompanied a German regiident into Belgium without having any official recognition and was wounded on one of the early battlefields, near YpriiK^: Then there was First Lieutenant Heinrich von Heinrichshofen of St. Louis, killed while fighting for Germany May 13, 1915. He was in the Insurance business In Missouri. During the Spanish-Amerlcan war be joined the volunteer army and rose to the rank of captain. Most ~of the American soldiers are tn the Canadian corps. In fact, it is said in som t quarters that a majority gent to enlfer the fighting were from the Unitefl States. They died by the score when the Germans used gus for the first time —in the so-called second battle of Ypres. ~ ~„II Americans are prominent In the celebrated French Foreign Legion, and many have died in the engagements of that hard-hitting organization. “On the Field of Honor.” Almost every week news comes Of the death “on tlffe field of honor” of an American. For one whose name gets in the newspapers probably a score ot two tire without reeognitioir of this kind. One of the latest to fall was H. R. Peighton Simpson, son of Henry VV. fitrvirtfion /yf V Arif Mrhfi Kun nPOII KHlirpJnTu v/X ll t W 1 WIIU 11UU UCCII flying for the last two years In England and France as a British aviator. He did not die in one of the many air battles lie engaged in, however, but came through them unscathed to meet his end in a flying accident fu England. . " '■ The American contingent In the Foreign Legion suffered exceptionally heavy losses in the Champagne battle at the beginning of October, 1915. Lieutenant Sweeney, who had, seen service at West Point; Frederick Capdeville, who already hnd been wounded in engagements; Edmund C. C. Genet of New York, a greatgrand-

son. of De Witt Clinton; Paul Pavelka of Madison, Conn.; Elov Nelson of Milwaukee; Robert Soubrain of New York; David” King of Providence, and Frank Musgrave of New Orleans fell In this awful Champagne attack. In this same battle, Dr. David Wheeler, a Boston surgeon, came to an end truly heroic. He quit the comparatively safe ranks of the ambulance corps and was wounded near the first line. Suffering intense pain, the surgeon crept along the battlefield, refusing to up, that he might minister to the needs of the men in the trenches groahing from their Injuries. —_IVI Hero Helps Many. How many he temporarily put out of agony nobody will ever know, but his hypodermic and his supply of morphine were used on all the fallen sofdiers he could find in a five-mile

crawl. Then he was picked up and carried to the rear, exhausted and unable to aid further. While talking to the captain of his company, a German bullet killed the captain and wounded Doctor Wheeler a second time. But even after that he attended several wounded men. Kiffen Rockwell of Atlanta, Ga., came to a spectacular end in an air battle on the Alsace front. He rose alone in an armored airplane and attacked a German machine, lie emptied the magazine of his rapid firer at his adversary, but while turning to encircle his foe the German shot him In the head. With his machine he dropped like a stone. Whether the bullet or his fall killed him was impossible to determine, .T : r i - - ■ Last October Jack Moyet of Mobile, the youngest man in the Foreign Legion! Brought to Paris the news of the death in a hospital of Frank Clair, a Columbus (O.) man, and George Delpeuche of New York. They died from wounds received July 4 last when the legion stormed Belloy en Santerre. The engagement at Givenchy on June 17, 1915, also resulted in the deaths of several American legionnaires. These were Russell Kelly of New York, Herman E. Hall of Chicago, John Earle Fiske of Wooster, Ok, and Kenneth Weeks and Henry Farnsworth, both of Boston. Weeks was twenty-six years old and had written five volumes of short stories and several plays. He went to Tarts five years ago to study at the Beaux Arts. He was a member of the D. K. E. fraternity at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He enlisted at the outbreak of the war and spent the first winter in the treuchea rHe was chosen bom R h er for his squad and was mentioned In dispatches for bravery. B’arnsworth slipped away to Europe Just after the war started without his relatives’ knowledge. He was sent to the hospital on several occasions, but always returned to the front with great eagerness. Kelly, son of a New York lawyer,, had distinguished himself in _many lights and written home long, breezy accounts of hjs experiences. He was at Qrst reported captured by the Ger-' mans and his family had a long dreary seveq months of uncertainty before they learned the sad truth concerning him. William Lawrence Breese, son-la-law of Hamilton Fish and formerly secretary to American Ambassador Page, UT.Lo Q d° a ' became a naturalized British citizen after the war started rind was killed by an explosion while testing a new grenade apparatus he

had Invented. He was • lieutenant in the Royal Horse Guards. Sefgt. Florence J. Price, star athlete of Brawn university and former New York newspaper man, died when a shrapnel shell burst In the dugout where he was sleeping. He need nbt have been In the dugout. Tie had been relieved the day before for a tour of rest miles behind the first line trenches. But n fellow sergeant who was to take his place complained of Illness, and instantly Price volunteered to take his place. First to Fall in Battle. Alfred Lucien Pierre Fery would have graduated at Columbia college, in this city, had he not left at the close of the academic year last summer, gone to the front after a short course in a French military academy, and been killed in the Frenoh ranks. Austin C. K*e, a Brooklyn boy, better known here as “Daredevil Jack” Austin, a title he won by taking daring roles in the fiims before he became a soldier of fortune, died on November 10 in the great battle of the Somme. The first American volunteer wearing the uniform of France to fall In battle was Fred Stone of New York. He died from a shell wound received while operating a machine gun for Battalion C of the Second regiment of the Foreign Legion in January of 1915. He was formerly secretary of the United States consulate at Buenos Aires. Four Americans in graves marked “Died for France” lie In the little

cemetery near the Bois Sabot, whefe they fell in September of 1915. Their names are Henry B’arnsworth, Henry Walker of New Orleans and Frank Surrey and Sergt. E. Duval of New York. Norman Prince, sergeant major of the Franeo-American aviation corps, died on October 15 from injuries he received in an accident behind fj|& lines. Twice the young man had been decorated for skill and valor. Dennis Dowd, a Brooklyn boy, fainted while flying at the aviation school at Buc, near Paris, and fell 300 feet to death. He was qualifying at the time for an army flier’s license. Second Lieutenant W. M. Nichols of Spartanburg, S. C„ who was with the Royal Field artillery, was killed In action on September 27, 1915. The young i lan was wounded in the early stages of the war, but recovered and returned again to the battlefield. He was a son of Judge George W. Nichols of Spartanburg. Julian A. Lnthrop, a Harvard undergraduate, was killed last April. He left college to join the American ambutance corps in France. Reports of his death said that “he died while ou the field of duty from effects of a wound received when transferring wound i'(l to a relief hospital under heavy fire.” Richard J. Howard of St. Louis was killed while fighting with the British troops in France last March. He was a lieutenant in the Scottish “Black Watch” regiment. fiobert L. Cuthhert, who made his home here at the New York Yacht elub, was killed in July of 1915, —He was a member of King Edward’s Frank D. Byrne, a formed financial writer oT the New York Sun, was killed “somewhere in France.” He left New York- last- February and enlisted as a private In the Royal Dublin Fustteers. Henry Augustus Colt of New York, a member of Princess Pat’s regiment, was killed last August. He was a Joseph Howland Colt, a trustee of the American Defense society. < Lieut. Albert G. Spalding. Jr., oi Tenth Royal InnlskilHng Fuslleera, was killed In battle last July. Lieutenant W. E. Hedger of. New York, an aviator with the British army, fell from a great height while fighting an enemy machine, He was twice decorated for valor before being transferred to the Royal Flying —, — '■ t-tn po* v ■ gome of the other Americans killed In battle are: * Harold Chapin, American actor and stage manager; Jack Janz, John Prentice Poe, Jr., famous football plflyer.; Eugene E. Molse of St Louis, and Paul Nelson. •