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Show 1EET BJI! 1 HELDFfflTTLE Colonel Hamilton Smith, Lieut. Col. Clark Elliott and Major J. M. Mc-Cloud Mc-Cloud Go Down. FIVE CAPTAINS DIE IN THE SAME SECTOR Elliott a Lieutenant With the Fifteenth Infantry at Fort Douglas About Sixteen Six-teen Years Ago. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY ON THE AISNE-MARNE FRONT, Wednesday, Wednes-day, July 24. (By the Associated Press.) Colonel Hamilton Smith of the United States army, died on July 22 within a few hours after receiving a machine gun wound below the heart. Colonel Smith was making observations after a morning attack in anticipation of improving the American positions south of Soissons, near Missy -au-Bo Is. Lieutenant Colonel Clark Elliott was killed by machine gun fire in the same sector while Inspecting the American front lines. Major J. M. McCIoud was wounded while leading his men when the Americans Amer-icans crossed the Solssons-Arras road during the offensive. He was wounded in the left arm and in the left side by machine ma-chine gun bullets, but after receiving first aid he continued fighting. The major was killed soon afterwards- by a high explosive explo-sive shell. i Lieutenant Killed. Soon after Major McCIoud died, Lieutenant Lieu-tenant James C. Lodar was killed by machine gun fire near where McCIoud fell. On different days the following captains were killed by machine guns and shells, all of them leading their men when they fell: James A. Edgerton, Julius A. Mood, Alfred R. Hamel, James N. C. Richard and James H. Holmes. Lieutenant Lodar, Captain Holmes and Major McCIoud were buried at a cross roads in a wheat field two kilometers southeast of Missy-au-Bois. Colonel Smith was buried at Orry-la-Ville, near Luzarches, and the other officers were interred on the spots where they fell. Colonel Was Game. Colonel Smith was looking over the edge of a hill, endeavoring to locate the Germans, when he was struck. The Americans already held their objective, but Colonel Smith desired to improve the position. He was in an outpost, accompanied accom-panied by Private Charles Aug of Sacramento, Sacra-mento, Cal., who rendered first aid and called for assistance. Becoming impatient, Aug suggested dragging Colonel Smith back, but the colonel said: "That would be too much of a chance for you, Aug. There is no use of you exposing yourself. The wound is not serious: I can wait." Aug insisted and started with Coionel Smith through a wheat field. There was no complaint from Smith during the trip, Aug frequently stopping to rest and inquire in-quire how the wounded man felt, and the colonel replying: "I'm all right; look out for yourself. Those machine gunners can see you move, but not me." They finally reached a farmouse where American soldiers were sheltered. The farmhouse was more than 200 yards from the spot where Colonel Smith was wounded. wound-ed. The injury was dressed, but Colonel Smith died on the way to a field hospital. hos-pital. The cemetery at Orry-la-Vlile, where Colonel Smith was burled, is on a high ground overlooking forests and grain fields, and on clear nights the lights of Paris are visible. COLONEL ELLIOTT ONCE STATIONED AT FORT DOUGLAS Colonel Hamilton A. Smith, whose death in France is reported in the above dis-palch, dis-palch, was a temporary colonel of infantry in-fantry in the national army organization, organiza-tion, having been appointed to that rank from the rank of lieutenant colonel of (Continued on Pag Eleven.) II OFFICERS DIE 01 THE BATTLEFIELD (Continued from Page One.) infantry in the regular army organization. organiza-tion. He was born in Florida, January 18, 1871, and was appointed to the United States military academy from Georgia, June 15, 1889. He graduated from West Point and was commissioned a second lieutenant of the Third infantry June 12, 1893. He was promoted to first lieutenant lieuten-ant April 26, 1898, and to captain Febru-! Febru-! ary 2, 1901. Later he was promoted to , major and then to lieutenant colonel in the regular service. After the United States entered the world war he was made a colonel in the national army. Colonel Smith was a distinguished graduate from the army school of the line in 1912 and a graduate of the army staff college in 1913. Lieutenant Colonel Clark Elliott was formerly stationed at Fort Douglas in Salt Lake with the Fifteenth infantry some sixteen years ago, he being at that time a first lieutenant of the Fifteenth. He was born in Ohio, February 2, 1872, and was appointed to the army from Minnesota. Minne-sota. He served through the Spanish-American Spanish-American war first as a second lieutenant lieuten-ant of the Fifteenth Minnesota infantry and later as a second lieutenant of the Thirty-first regular infantry. Previous to the Spanish-American war he served as private, corporal and sergeant , with the Third cavalry from June 20, 1894, to June 4, 1898, He entered the regular army organization as a second lieutenant of the. Tenth infantry February 2, 1901. He became a first lieutenant of the Fifteenth Fif-teenth infantry May 10, 1902, was promoted pro-moted to captain March 11, 1911, and on December 16, 1912, was assigned as major of the Ninth battalion, Philippine scouts. Later he-eturned to the infantry organization organ-ization and was gradually promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel of infantry. Lieutenant Colonel Elliott was not related to Captain W. B. Elliott who was post Quartermaster at Fort Douglas prior to his death last fall. The name of Major J. M. McCloud, contained con-tained in the press dispatch, is not shown either in the official Army Register or the Army Directory, and it is probable that he is a national guard officer. |