Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1911 — PRIVATE SOLDIER KILLED [ARTICLE]

PRIVATE SOLDIER KILLED

Runaway Horses Pull Gun Limber Over 18-Year-Old Boy. San Antonio, Tex., July 14.—Elbert J. Baum, private in Battery A., Third artillery, was killed at the Leon Springs Military reservation while his battery was at target practice. The horses attached to a gun limber took fright at the firing and ran. Ine limber knocked Baum down and passed over his body. He was eighteen years of age and enlisted recently in Pennsylvania. 1 .-I -•