By John Hale Chipman, Class of 1919

"September 24, 1917, Monday, Fair.

Up at 8 after a mighty good sleep but it was cold. However, the old pink "parjarmers" kept me "assez chaud" [warm enough]. We lay around all morning enjoying a breathing space from work. I wrote some letters this morning after looking over #8 to see that she was O.K. After dinner we received orders for 12 o'clock so nine camions [trucks] got ready to load at B. for S. We carried logs for new artillery foundations and believe me they were heavy as we had to unload ourselves in order to get home at a respecatble hour.

Coming home it was terribly dusty and misty so we had to go pretty fast to catch up with the convoy. Of course my second driver had to be driving and smash into a wagon. This pulled the car over into the ditch knocking over a telegraph pole and pinning two frenchmen under the car. It is a wonder they and we weren't killed after letting 5 tons run away with itself. Anyway, we got the men out from under the car and sent them to the hospital, tho they weren't hurt very much. The car was unscratched so we proceeded home at 10, arriving at 11:30 P.M."

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