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THE BEE: OMAHA, THUKSDAY, JUNE 6, 1918. IOWA LOSES 29 SOLDIERS IN WAR ZONE " . Twenty-Eight Men from Hawk eye State Killed in Action; Council Bluffs Sammy "Goes West." Twenty-eight killed "in a& tion, one killed in accident and two severely wdunded was the toll of Iowa troops fighting with the Rainbow division in France in the battle of May 27, according to the army casualty list Issued Wednesday. Dubuque was the hardest hit Df the Iowa towns. Five Du buque boys are listed among those killed in action. ; Winterset, a ' little town of t.S,000 inhabitants,- 40 miles iouthwest of Des Moines, lost four of its patriotic sons in this battle, s ' - i Two of the 23 lowans killed in ac tion wer commissioned , officers, Captain Edward O. Fleur of Pes Moines tnC Lieutenant Clarence Green of Winterset. ... , ( ' ' ' Blufft Boy Slain. . ' V William A. . Staley, the Council Bluffs boy who died of wounds May 29, was in the fierce fighting of May zi, He was a ton of Mr. and Mrs. A. Staley, 1315 Avenut I. Besides . his parents he leaves two brothers and two sisters. Young Staley was 18 years old. He enlisted in Company L, the Dodge light guards, -the day after war was declared. He attended the public schools of the Bluffs. Hia father and mother received official notice of his death from the War department "I'm proud of ray boy," .said Mrs. Staley through a mist of tears. "I - know he gave the best in him and went to his death like a true son of America. Atlantic Loses One. ' Samuel Hazard, Atlantic, la., 30 J ear. old, was a son of Mrs. Mattie Iazard of Brayton, la. He was wounnca in action May u, ana aiea nay W. He was born and reared in Cass county, Iowa, where he was en gaged in farming prior to hia enlist ment He, enlisted in September, J 916, and was stationed on the Mexi can border until the transfer to Com pany L, 168th infantry. Sergeant Harry Hazard, a brother, la now attached to the quartermaster's corps at Washington, D. (C Five sis ters, Mrs.- Charles Croissant, Mrs. Leslie Graydill, Hattie, Marcy and Hazel Hazard, and a brother, Porter Hazard, all living near Atlantic, sur vive him. '; . Samuel Berrier, 19-year-old son of Mrs. S. W. Berrier of Red Oak, Ii., ho-waa killed in action Mav 27. was a, member of Company M, 16fyh in ''itry.' He waa born in Fremont. ..viie enlisted April 4, 1917. Be sides his mother he is survived by Orte brother, Roy Berrier of Michigan, arid a sister, Essie Berrier, of Parkers- turg J a. ' -;.;'. -S ' i '? Three From Creston. ' Three Creston, la., men were killed. They are: Sergeant Jess F. Tillman, a lormer farmer; Gladstone C. Hew itt, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Hewitt and formerly employed by the railroad tn Creston, and Sergeant C?rdon E. Perry, 29 years old, son cf Mr. and Mrs. George Perry, who cow live at Des Moines and who for nerly were engaged in the grocery t-jsmess at Creston. The three "men were members of Company C, 168th (afantry. . ,. : - . TWO U. S. AIEMEN ; DESTROY GERMAN : PLANE IN FIGHT With the American Army in France, l.-ae 5.--An American lieutenant and i "other pilot engaged a German bi ' 'm over the lines northwest of Tout 'a morninf and forced the enemy i vvwii utaiuv iff vnu atu aucr -a tot tight. 'V ;- s ; After the, two American pilots left ' scene of the landing several hun L:ti of the enemy,, men and officers, r :hered around where the machine L.1 settled down, and the American irtillery dropped many, shells on the ot, wrecking the machine and in Leting some, casualties. . Five other air battles were fought but without result. . ' 1 .; The Weather ' For Nebraska Unsettled Thusday, rrobably ehowers in east portion; Fri-'-y partly coludy and somewhat cuoler. . .' . Hour. ' S a. m . . D.f. . ...... T a. n......v. ' I a. m , S a. m I n 1 a,"m 11 a. m II ra lp.ni. 1 p. m V :j p. nt,.. ' 4 p. in.. : P- m I p. ra.v,. ....... , 1 p. m... S p. m ' Cwmpwatrr Ztnl Kceord. ISIS. 1117. 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Bluffs Boy Slain in Battle in France William A. Staley "DICK" FISHER KILLED WHEN AUTO UPSETS Randolph,, la., June 5. (Special Telegram.) Richard Fisher, one of the most prominent stock raisers and farmers of this vicinity, was instant ly killed about noon yesterday, when his car upset and crushed him be neath its weight. - He was coming home from Ran dolph, accompanied by Tom Duncan, a neighbor. On a steep grade at the east line of his farm he encountered another car coming from an opposite direction. In giving, way to the ap proaching car he went too tar over on the embankment and his car turned turtle, burying him beneath. Mr. Duncan managed to work his way out and hurried in search of help. When the car was righted Fisher was found underneath. A deep gash at the base of the brain indicated that he had been instantly killed. Mr. Fisher was unmarried. He has many friends, and acquaintances among the commission men of South Side stock yards and business men of Omaha, where he was known famil iarly as "Dick" Fisher. DELICIOUS AND WHOLESOME Hartford's Acid PhstphiU A mlcndld tonic and a dtllclouil rafmh. In drink. Advtrtlaimcnt. Closing i 1 ! j THURSDAY THE ANNEX at 302 South 16th Street Puts on Sale Every Suit in Stock at Closing Out Prices. Silk Suits f Serge Suits Gabardine Suits Tweed Suits Tailored Suits Suits for Nearly Every Kind of Wear Are Included in This Great Closing Out Sale. ; ONE LOT OP SUITS ONE LOT OP SUITS ; AT:. 7: AT $9.85 WM ,ONE LOT OP SUITS ONE LOT OF SUITS $1475 1 $23.6g The values offered in these Suits will mean quick selling. We advise you, if economically inclined, to buy during this Closing Out Sale, ThetSuit Sale will continue Friday, Saturday, Monday and Tuesday. , ,: The reason for this sale The room we are now occupying in the First Na tional Bank Building is too small "We therefore decided to close out the entire stock and "open up with Popular Price lines in connection with our Higher-Priced lines at 1613 Farnam Street THE TO THE H0US2 07 MENAGE 302 South 16th Street IOWA ROADS ARE BLOCKED; FLOODS SWELISTREAMS Traffic on Three Transconti nental Lines Stopped When Dam Goes Out at Tama; Great Damage Done. Engineer f 8 Killed Fort Dodge, la., June 5.--(Spe-cial Telegram.) George E. k Thompson, engineer, living here, waa killed instantly at 1:15 a. m. when Illinois Central freight No. 73 was wrecked by a bridge giv ing way because of high water six milea west of Denison. The train, which waa weatbound and con sisted of an engine and seven cars of stock, went into the ditch. Fire man William Beaver, also of Fort Dodga, waa slightly scalded. Thompson waa 58 years old and leavea a wife and five children. He had been an engineer 23 yeara and was in the service of the Illi nois Central 31 years. The storm Tuesday and Tuesday night In Iowa has disarranged run ning schedules of Omaha railroads much more than the elimination of trains by the government , Reports to the railroads indicate that the storm was the worst in years and that in the central and eastern portions of Iowa cloudburst after cloudburst occurred. There are nu merous reports of 4 to 6 inches of rain, the water throwing streams out of their banks, cutting down grades and washing out bridges. Heavy Damage Done. Great damage waa done. The Des Moines river was expected to flood southeast Des Moines before mid night Wednesday. The Great West ern has abandoned service between Des Moines and Chicago. A quarter million dollars damage is reported to bridges in Mory county. The Burlington is the only Omaha- Chicago line that is maintaining reg ular service. The storm veered off to the east and did not strike the southern part of Iowa. Three Roads Blocked. Traffic on three railroads was cara- lyzed when a dam across the Iowa river near Tama broke, flooding the town and surrounding country. The Out Sale Suits " i - Fancy ANNEX Britons Encouraged ByuSplendidQualitu" 1 Of American Troops London, June 5. The disclosure in the French official statements that American troops have been en gaged in hard fighting in two sec tors of the present great battle line and have again demonstrated their splendid quality, as they did at Can tigny recently, is most welcome to the British public. The Americans, it is noted, are in the field in sectors where the fighting is most intense, namely, between the Marne and Ourcq rivers, where the Germans do not yet appear to have yielded belief in their ability still further to de velop their thrust for Paris. The part played by American machine gunners in the defense of the Chateau Thierry bridges is worthy to stand with the achieve ments of the American infantry re cently at Cantigny. river at that point was a mile wide last night and heavy damage has been caused to growing crops. Tracks of the Chicago & Northwestern," Chi cago, Rock Island Pacific and the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul are under water and officials say it will be several days before trains can get through. v - Farming districts around Benton and in the northern portions of Powe shiek and Iowa counties have also suffered heavy damage. Several hun dred head of cattle are reported drowned in the fields. On the Rock Island through service between Omaha and Chicago is dis continued until further notice. Stub trains are being run between Omaha and Des Moines and between Omaha and Grinnell. East of these two points there are numerous washouts, but their extent is unknown. On the Northwestern the washouts are east of Marshalltown. No. 19, due at 1 a. m. Wednesday arrived late in the afternoon. Nos. 1, 9 and II, and the fast mail are some where between Tama City and the Mississippi river, but up to noon had not been located. No. 11 on the Milwaukee, due at 8:30 a. m. yesterday, at noon was standing on the track at Tama City, la., waiting for repairs to be made on grades and bridges west of there. The Great Western was held up at Eagle Grove, where a bridge had been washed out. The Illinois Central has train serv ice between Omaha and Fort Dodge, but -east of the latter point the en tire country is under water. Light in Nebraska. During Tuesday night scattered rains were reported in Nebraska. One of the showers that visited the south western part of the state took on the character of a cloudburst and washed out a section of the Burlington grade between Nebraska City and Lincoln. 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