ARCH SNYDER LOSES FOOT IN WAR COUNTRY Private Archie Snyder, 23, of Claysburg, has been brought back to America with his left foot off and a fracture of the right foot and ankle, and he is now located in the U.S. General hospital, New Jersey. He was severely wounded in action on July 14 while fighting with Company L, Thirtieth infantry. The soldier is now at the United States hospital at Rahway, N.J., and is a patient in hospital No. 5, ward No. 4, where he expects to remain several months. Writing to his parents, Archie and Elwilda Snyder of Claysburg, the young soldier gives the first complete account of the action in which he was wounded and also gives the parents the first information as to the full extent of his injuries. "I am glad to be back in God's country, the good old U.S.A., once again," writes the soldier, from the Rahway hospital. "I have my left foot off entirely, while I am also suffering from two fractures of the right foot, one at the ankle joint, the other below the ankle." "I was wounded on Sunday morning, July 14, at 11 o'clock and I lay in the dugout until Monday morning when my comrades carried me to the clearing at the edge of the woods nearby. I lay there without attention all day with shot and shell flying all around and big trees crashing to the ground, while the ground around was filled with dead and dying. "I expected every minute to see the Huns come over to where I lay but towards evening my comrades resumed their charge and, helped by reinforcements they drove the Boche back. Then myself, with the other wounded, were gathered up and taken to the trench hospital. "My left foot was almost entirely shot away and I suffered considerably from the fractures of the other foot. At the hospital the left foot was amputated." Archie was wounded as he was going "over the top" in the drive of July 14 and fell several hundred yards from his trench position, being forced to remain there over night until the Yanks drove the Hun back in resuming the charge next day. The soldier served as cook in Company L, 30th infantry. He trained at Camp Greene, Charlotte, N.C., and was formerly employed at the Refractories plant at Claysburg. In a letter from Rahway the wounded hero states that he expects to be home for dinner at Christmas time, the soldier writing that he would have a "new" foot by that time. The soldier is one of the best young men in Claysburg and enjoys a wide acquaintance, members of the family and friends planning to visit with the hero at the Rahway camp. The soldier, in his recent letter, asks that his friends write, using the above address. Altoona Times, Altoona, Pa., Friday Morning, October 25, 1918, page 4 [which page is mistakenly dated Thursday, October 24, 1918]