Show 1 How Craft Finished the Message J 1 3 u Up at nt Fort Sheridan they have hae been tearing down the old wooden shacks sharks which twelve years ears iwo wo sheltered the two companies of the tile Sixth Infantry which were Jumped to Chicago at the time of oC thus the hanging of oC the anarchists The old guardhouse a Jail only in name the commissary nry building and ana the tho shaky pine pi no barracks have hae gone Rone There still stands however though its doom doomIs Is sealed tho the little one tory two room structure which served as os the quarters of ot Capt David L I Craft Sixth United Slates States Infantry When this PI pygmy pygmy my building tumbles s there thero will have disappeared everything on earth save sae an nn Insignificant little h headstone adstone in n a t Pennsylvania cemetery to remind one that such I a n person ns na David L II I Craft ever lived Remembrance of ot this plain I blunt soldier sold In should not be bo allowed to todie todie todie die The old description fits him well veil he was 1111 this the bravest of aC tire the brave The wreath placed on Ills hula grave Memorial day should be made maJe of ot One diy dt In front of or Petersburg Peter burg a see s ond and lieutenant of or tho the signal corps was ordered to the top of or a 0 hill hili with two to companies to transmit fine messages sent hint him by b one on I general to an nn another another other In the valley ally beyond Craft was wal n slant giant Ills His herculean frame was sil alt silhouetted silhouetted the th sky and as his lings Hags wigwagged back buck and forth the enemy In the trenches caught sight of ot him trim full and fair A battery of artillery was trained on tire the place held hold by the signal men mep me It took but a minute to get elt the range A shell struck within a afew aCeT afew few yards arlla of oC the Another came come and antI one of at th tilt the little party JUlY was 11 dead deall and another was dying Craft raft alone stood uninjured Tina The signal flag Oas which fell tell front from the hand of or his subordinate subordinate was W S held aloft In his own The TIle wigwagging went on all Crafts Crofts message me was os only half hair completed A glance Ilance Into the valley alley showed him tho the signaled or order order order der to leave leao his hili post and anel to retreat treat to the camp The Initial message was wa not nott vet t finished Craft kept on wig The fragment of ot n a shell hell shattered th the t flagstaff In his hand Another nother frag fragment Cn ment tore J his ls left lell arm Grasping the tho therod rod red rOt banner in h his right hand and ami rais eele raising ing himself to his hili full rull height he made a ft flagpole of or his uplifted arm ann and finished the message while the raining shells dug dUI grave annas nil all about him hint Second David L I 11 Signal descended that Petersburg hill hili hilla hilin n a brevet breet captain Five lines lintS description lion tion In the th Army Anny Register n of ot bow lit he held lucid the this signal tower had lied more niece pal mill palIn millIn In it for tor Paddy faddy Craft than would have hae come cane to him from the work of or n a 1 score core of or crafty politicians Chicago Herald |