Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1917 — His Double Loss. [ARTICLE]

His Double Loss.

A story of the battle of Jutland Is told by a chaplain of the grand fleet In a ship which was In the thick of action and was well hammered by the enemy, many poor fellows lost the number of their mess and many more were sadly wounded. Among these latter was a sailor, one of whose legs was so much shattered and lacerated by a splinter of shell that there was nothing else to do but amputate it above the knee. The wounded man was practically unconscious from loss of blood, so .the surgeons were not able to tell him of their intentions qf operating. Some time later he recovered consciousness and found himself comfortably tucked up, with the stump dressed and bandaged. When he learned what had happened he broke into an agonized cry—no, not for the crippling he had undergone; his cry was: my leg? For ’evin’s sake, find my leg, somebody J It’s got all my money In the stocking 1”