Iowa Old Press
The Daily Gate City & Constitution-Democrat
Keokuk, Lee co., Iowa
September 27, 1918
BUNYAN’S NAME IN CASUALTIES — Keokuk Soldier’s
Death Finally Reported Officially by the War Department —
Killed in Action.
The death of Charles Otto Bunyan, of Keokuk, finally
reached publication nationally Thursday morning by the appearance
of his name in the morning casualty list as “killed in
action.” After a letter to him was returned by the
postoffice department, the Keokuk Red Cross home service
department confirmed his death by cable, and it was announced
last week here and flags placed at half mast for three days in
his honor. But the time required in checking the casualties by
the War Department delayed its announcement of the fact until
Wednesday night.
SEVEN DAYS IN HOSPITAL — Keokuk Soldier Writes That
the Men of the Old First National Guard Regiment are Well.
L. K. Ewing writes his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. F..
Ewing, that he is out of the hospital in France after a light
touch of gas from the Huns, which kept him in bed for seven days.
He says that he has seen some of the men of the old first
regiment Iowa national guard, and they were all well when he
wrote, August 20. They are mostly in the famous 168th infantry to
which Private Ewing belongs.
[transcribed by L.Z., March 2019]