Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1919 — PRIVATE CORNELL DIED A HERO’S DEATH. [ARTICLE]

PRIVATE CORNELL DIED A HERO’S DEATH.

The following extracts are gleaned ' from a letter written by a Grand Rapids, Mich., soldier, and tells of the death of Earl Cornell, a nephew of C. W. Duvall and Mrs. Mary Eger, of this city: “I suppose you have already heard abobt Earl Cornell by this time. Believe me, it is sure tough luck, but it could not be helped. Every man is taking the same chance, and if your time comes, you have to take it. At the time of his death, he was my-loader but when it got too warm for us, Earl, not being used to loading, took up the observer’s post. We were putting them in, about two a second, when all of a sudden we were picking ourselves up and wondering what had happened, for a shell landed almost under the gun. We all dove for the ditch along one side of the road when we heard Earl saying he was blown to pieces. We found a wound righ below his heart and dressed him as best we could with his first aid and my companion went back for some stretcher bearers. He did not return so we had some German prisoners carry him in a blanket to an ambulance, and he was taken to a hospital where he died a short time later.”