The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-09-19
LOST, SIXTEEN SOLDIERS!
TIE MISSING MEN BELONGED TO
PENNsYLYANLA REGIMENTS.

This Country or in Porto Rico, but .
Careful Search Engineered by Gov. Hast
inEs Has So Far Failed 20 Find Them.
Ifanybody. anywhere. In this country or in
Porto Rico, at municipal hospitals or at army
hospitals. at private residences or at the head
quarters OF relief committees. knows anything
Of the whereabouts OF fourteen members OF the
Fourth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry and
two members OF the Sixteenth Volunteer 1n-
fantry from the same State. tho person or per-
sons having such knowledge should imme-
diately communicate with Gov. Hastings OF
pennsylvania The following are the names OF
the men about whom information Is wanted:
Herbert A. warg. Company d.. Fourth Regi-
ment: Musician William Michael, Company II.
Fourth Regiment; William l.. Sassaman. Com
pany d, Fourth REGIMENT; Harry A. Weaver.
Company |, Fourth Regiment: George Harpel,
Company H. Fourth Regiment; Alois Wachter.
Company +. Fourth Regiment Corporal Samuel
Spindler. Company NJ. Fourth Regiment; John
q. Stevenson. Company +. Fourth Regiment;
Henry Bruhl, Company X. Fourth Regiment;
Earl Snow. Company !, Fourth Regiment;
Harry g. Miller, Company Z. Fourth Regiment;
George +. Feather. Company J.. Fourth ReRi-
ment: Corporal Charles w. Gangwere. Com
pany M. Fourth Regiment; Horace Goas. Com
pany F. Fourth Regiment: Hiram iodine. Com
rany c. Sixteenth Regiment; Fred N. Folk.
| company II, oiAtc6uJn neklutub'
The Fourth Pennsylvania, under command
OF Col. 4. b. Case. arrived here on the trans
port Chester on Sept. O. The Sixteenth Penn
sylvania Is still in Porto Rico. On arriving
here the companies of the Fourth we're sent
directly to the towns in Pennsylvania where
they were recruited. When the companies
reached their home towns. relatives and friends
found that certain soldiers, In whose home
coming they were particularly interested, were
not with their comrades. Inquiries were made
as to what had become Of them. Nobody in
the regiment seemed to know. To all Ques-
tions the most satisfactory answer would be
something like this:
"Warg? Oh. Warg was taken sick in Porto
Rico. l think. Iheard he was. Guess he was
sent to the hospital at Ponce. / amt sure.
though. Ask So-and-So. He knows all about
Warg.'
And so-and-so would reply to questions: II
amt Just sure. but 1 think Warg was sent north
on some hospital ship. / forget its name. and l
think they landed him at Montauk."
Thus mothers and fathers. or sisters. wives
or sweethearts. went from one man to another
in the company, and from that company to all
the others in the regiment, without getting
any more satisfactory Information about those
they sought. Finally. these people took their
inquiries to Gov. Hastings. The first inquiries
reached him soon after the companies OF the
regiment reached their homes. Ever since
then. hardly a day has passed that Gov. Hast
inRs has not received from one to a dozen let
tiers from those unable to find their loved ones.
Every letter contained an appeal to the Gov
ernor to assist in the search.
As soon as he fully comprehended the situa-
ton. Gov. Hastings set on foot a systematic in
quiry. He first got the best information about
the missing mon from members OF their own
companies. Then he searched the Philadelphia
hospitals and found some OF the missing men.
After that he sent personal representatives to
all the army and municipal hospitals in the
country where sick soldiers from Cuba or Porto
a list Of such hospitals from the Surgeon-Gen-
eral OF the army. From Fort Monroe north
the re sPeaTehi They e found STe SonesG OF tRRee U MISSING
men at the hospital at Fort Monroe and at the
hospital at Washington Barracks.
just what was the total number Of the miss
ing when the regiment returned 10 not known,
We're Wei Il those ose' who p9I had BEEN sent to 9th ne S Sos iStas
at philadelphia. Fort Monroe, and Washington
Barracks; The sea search is stu going On and
so long as there is the faintest hope Of finding
any Of the remaining sixteen alive. or the place
master OF the Third Brigade. National Guard
again the search Of the hospitals in this vicin-
ity. He reached here yesterday afternoon.
Col. Amos s. Kimbail. Deputy Ouartermaster-
General. a letter OF Introduction from Lewis Z.
eel, kiiP PFblSIaife seGrsestiS 10 Nay Major Ff Rfchssdso ae
consulted the bureau established
by Major d; M. Appel. surgeon, U. A. whose
office Is on the fourth floor OF the Army build
fhe only member of either regimento OF whom
Miller on the Fourth. who had been sent to the
Hudson Street Hospital on his arrival here. As
Harry q. Miller is the name Of one OF the miss
ing men, Major Richardson telephoned to the
Hudson Street Hospital. He learned that John
was supposed to have gone home.
complete record of all soldiers sent to hospitals
in this vicinity since the war began. Although
his lists fail to show that any other missing
members OF the Pennsylvania regiments have
Richardson hopes that somewhere within the
territory OF Greater New York he will find some
to make the rounds OF the hospitals. to visit
Montauk, and he also intends to keep close
watch ns Of all t tranfiP Fom pa and hospital cd ships that
It was suggested to Major Richardson that
he would probably find that most OF the miss
ing men would be located In the hospitals at
well" said the Major, "it 1 find anything to
orders are to keepa this thing until ! am con-
WINGED that further search is useless"
ing persons or some relief committee, here or
ehI ssW n re R Foari Eot w h9ld t z, some peaeb cd b 5es s hSd
failed to report the matter to any one; An in
stance OF this occurred. about ton days ago,
when Major Willard: chief surgeon OF the First
was at Montauk. His wife, who had come on
from Chicago. was to meet her husband on the
arrival Of a certain train from Montnuk at Long
Island City.
Mrs. Willard met the train, but couldn't find
her husband among the uniformed men who
was that her husband was on the train when It
left Montauk. After searching for him all day.
she found him Just at dusk In the house Of a
member OF one OF the relief committees In st.
James's place, Brooklyn. Mrs. Willard learned
then that her husband had been taken Ill on the
train. had to be helped off at Long Island City.
and was promptly taken, care OF by the person
Ger said yesterday that. while all the commit
tees. organized to help sick soldiers are doing
an immense amount ot. good, the individual
to report to the army authorities wheneverthe y
take a sick soldier to care for.
Major Richardson can be communicated with
through Col. Kimball's or Major Appeps office.
hut he stated ynaterdnY that any information