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\ (continued Ifrotrt Page li).j - 1V I ‘ ,r{ '■ '• 1* r ’children,, juid poured f)lack,oll on them, ind burned them because they did not have burial ground for.them. .After thatvwhen,a battle would/(start all Americans would he tpken aboard tile battleship^ which which, lay in the Gulf. Wh6n the f Igli t would • cease we. ■ would . he transferred back to Tampico, but ln.l9Mbwhem the .• Amjerleaij, flcpt bombarded the-. npval--school ,at Vera Cruz, Mexico, we had our worst trouble.^■ir * it\.The Mexicans were dtitto get the American's. We :were in. the. Imperial hotel' whichAflew ^ German flag which.; probably,-saved ..the .day for us, biit they threw -bricks and every other -thing they -could find through the windows;-. We crawled, upsta'irs . cn. our handstand;, kn$?s tQ kpep from getting shot,.. Qkptam Hamer,. Teslas Ranger, wag ated inthe hotel fit that time. -We stayed on the roof-of the hotel, until; oi-.mcst morning. Nearly every,. American in the city was .tieri out thdt night, by the German boat, Dresden,, and placed on our battleship that lay in tho-Guif.:- ... i..v .1. -The next morning we were al.39 taken out and placed ajioayd ' the Dixie ship, the supply boat to the fleet. Well they did not take■ us bapk to. (Tampiqo. that time, but Instead took us to Galveston, Texas, under orders from President Wilson, So in about a week the gengrgl man-agor cf the-compapy . we .were, with, my. husband and the, rest of the then chartered a boat,' and went back .to resume work, but--no women were allowed to go - hack. ...We . oil women siayed-.in .Galt ycstoiv six; weeks. Wp, tried, to get passage on every boat, .but they would not let us go. So finally ,wc decided to go, on back on the. .tjrain,We left.Galypslon, and,.went, to Brownsville, and wMl’ .we (got. to Matimr.ras tllere wasn't any tiling but a freight train. We, boarded that and went trt Monterrey. There w.c., vgot. a, passenger, train from Tampico. There , were five of us wopk-p, ana, imagine the men’s surprise when we walked in there that night, as not one of them. iuiew.,.we.,were.,.«omJiig. We. . I was not back ..there long until I took;-;yellow,, f,lt;S.y.er along with hundreds . of others. While a great many died I pulled through, but I could not live there any longer,I came to Sanatorium, Texas, nv DecanUer. 1914,, C. E. ( came,, in May, ioi’5, and from there we went back to Oklahoma. Markham was our first stop—then.. Drumwrlght, Shamrock, ■ Hominy,, Yale. Then. in 3,919 and 1020 we .made thg. Ranger boom, and paid $18, a week for a rbcim, It was -Impossible to rent a house. Well, we pooled our money with. so«\s move associated. ■ and drilled a. ho}g at .Leroy, Texas, After pioneering out there for a year in U tent which was visited by. snakes and .Jl»ai'd$,^with, what .we: had; left%vo made our .way back to Qlda-li.o'Hia. Wp lived hi,Epperson,.better known as the WhizbanB field. We lived there two years.- • • •...Ip. 1924 we went.to,'ibukawtL.okia, Tliejb C. E.wwv.tool-punier fpr.Uie Afparkda petrolpum . .cp^prapjpn, They sent us to Stroud; Okla., then
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Pampa News
Pampa, Texas, US
Thu, Jun 22, 1939
Page 7
Full Page
Clipped by
William S.
NA, 28 May 2024
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