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Show iiir REACH FT. DOUGLAS Thirty-one Sick or Wounded Wound-ed Intermountain Soldiers Arrive at Post. A car of sic(( and wounded soldiers from overseas reached Salt Lake yesterday yester-day from Jloboken, X. J., arriving liere at 10:43 a. m. Thirty-ono soldiers from the intermountain states occupied the car. Seven of the men were from fdaho, four from Utah, four from Montana, five from Nevada, six from Arizona, two from Wyoming and one each from California, Cali-fornia, Texas and Indiana. The detachment originally consisted of three cars of convalescent so'.diers, but at Ogclen two cars were detached and sent on to the Presidio at San Francisco. Fran-cisco. The car containing patients for the Fort Douglas general hospital was in charge of Lioutenant YV. P. Ultes. Women from the local canteen service met the men at the depot and offered them fruit, candy and cigarettes. Mrs. V. A. Tracy and Miss Beatrice Smith drove some of the soldiers to ,the fort in their cars and the remainder were taken in ambulances. i A wounded Salt Lake man, A. C. Johnson, John-son, passed, more than fifteen months overseas, most of the time near the firing fir-ing line, with the 104th aero squadron. H. C. Brown of Ogden became ill of Influenza In-fluenza just het'ore sailing for France and w'hen he recovered the war had ended. He was with the Eighth infantry until ordered or-dered to Fort Douglas. George C. Knight, Kamas, Utah, was wounded in the foot by a rifle bullet while fighting in the Argonne. He is now on crutches. William G. Morris had a few brief moments mo-ments with his parents while the train stopped in Ogden. He enlisted with the 145th field artillery and was a member of B battery. Sailing overseas in June with the replacement draft, he reached the front in time for the Argonne battle, bat-tle, where he received a wound iiV the left arm. B. J. . Marten, from South Jordan, Utah, was with the army of occupation in Germany until influenza landed nut, in a base hospital, and he was later invalided in-valided home. P. H. King, who was wounded in the Argonne, has relatives at Bear River, Utah. - |