Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1920 — INDIANA AND THE WAR [ARTICLE]

INDIANA AND THE WAR

The adjutant-general has announced final figures of American army casualties in the war, showing the total to be 302,612. Of that number, 77,118 were deaths; 34; 248 were killed In action, 23,430 died of disease, 13,700 died of wounds, and 2,019 were killed by accident. New York led the list of states with 40,222 casualties. The canal zone was at the bottom of the list with 3 casualties and 2 deaths. Following New York in the casualty list ard Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio, Massachusetts, Missouri, 'Michigan, New Jersey, Texas, Wisconsin, Minnesota, lowa, California, Connecticut, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Virglna, North Carolina and Indiana. Indiana’s casualties numbered 5,766 and deaths 1,510. Some of the, eastern states have far more casualties than Indiana because their troops were sent into the fighting zones earlier in the war. Some of the southwestern states also contributed large bodies ol troops that saw some of the severest fighting. Indiana was tenth in number of men furnished for the arcny, Its total being 106,581. On percentage of population Indiana ranked near the first. The figures presented Ln the adjutant general’s report are for the army only. Indiana also fi rnished many men for the navy and the marine corps. For a time the Indianapolis office of the marine corps showed a greater number of recruits than any other in the country. An Indiana artilleryman fired the first shot by the American army at the Germans and an Indiana soldigr was among the first three American soldiers who gave their lives in the war.