23 March 1955 Great Bend Daily Tribune (Great Bend, Kansas) Father of Great Bender Preached Death Service Russell - "My father preached the burial service for Chris Carter". Herman colegrove 1519 Washington, Great Bend, said this week after reading a story in the Russell Daily News pertaining to the disinterrment of the body of the man who died 58 years ago in a well cave-in. Colegrove's father H.P. Colegrove was a minister at the Bunker Hill Methosist Church and was called in to read the services over the well-head, below which the 42 year-old farmer was trapped by quicksands. This week relatives of Carter hired bulldozers and power shovels to extricate the body of the farmer. Herman colegrove said he was in the Spanish American War during the time the tragedy occurred. Great Bend Daily Tribune Great bend, Kansas, Thursday, April 28, 1955 Spanish - American Veterans to Meet Four members of Company M, 20th Kansas Regiment, all veterans of the Spanish - American War, will hold a reunion Friday at 1 pm when they gather for dinner at Ulanda's dining room. Herman Colegrove, Great Bend, said that the reunion was started when Edwin J. Laird, retired Methodist Minister of Des Moines, Ia., visited his brother, Edgard Laird, of 901 Baker, Colegrove then called other members of the regiment in nearby towns - George W. Smith of Chase and L.W. Hubbell of Jetmore. Fifteen survivors are all that remain of the 106 men who served under Col. Frederick Funston from June 1868 to Oct. 10, 1899. The men were the students at Salina Normal University and all went to the Phillipines where they served at the front most of the time, according to Colegrove.