Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-29
PRISONER. .

he had grown quite friendly. Anxious
to save the ring, he crawled over TO
where his severed arm lay and tried to
pull it off, but tainted from loss of
blood before he could do so Later he
awoke in hospital, and, much to his
annoyance. the Red Cross men who had
found him, failed to bring in his missing
arm.
Later it was necessary TO amputate
the greater part of what was left of his
arm to prevent blood poisoning, but he is
being fitted with an artificial arm at the
Government hospital for the manned at
Washington. and expects to be able to
get along with fair degree of COM
fort after the surgeons have finished
with him.
He is only on furloush now and must
return to Washington to complete his
treatment ~ithin ten days. Bugler
nsnt ass nams at DID hS mo-, nSme sppear s.ndoy
the official casualty list until today,
though he was wounded about July 2S
His injury had been reported unofflcially,
however. He has been in this country
about six weeks but this is his first
visit to his family.
Lieutenant Frank Strong, of the arr,v
transportation corps accidentally in.
jured by a train, is the first railroad
man from this city
Officer Injured in to be sent home
Railroad accident foot was crushed
by a freight car
while he was trying to straighten out a
traffic tanEle at an important junction
nearithe front line Surgeons tried hard
to save the foot, but in the end anputa-
tion vas necessary. The lieutenant IS
now at a Washington hospital, recover
ing from the effects of the operation.
Lieutenant Strong was formerly di-
vision engineer of the Los Angeles and
California Railroad and reSDOnded to
the call for skilled railroad men to help
organize an efficient transportation serv-
ice in France. He enlisted in March of
this year. was promptly given a cap
tain's commission and sent overseas at
once. The lieutenant was born in Phila-
delphia, educated at the local public
schools and took his engineers degree
at Norwich University, Northfeld, Vt.
Lieutenant Strong married Miss Mar
garet Fairer. daughter of William j.
Fairer, OF this city.
Corporal William F. Ransom, Mlled in
action, was formerly employed in the
pressroonl of the Curtis Publishing Com
April of last year, few days after this
country. entered the war and two days
| before he was twenty-one years old, the
family lived at 4SS Fitzwater street.
Since then they have moved to 416 North
Fifty-third street. The change in ad-
dress was sent to the War Department,
but apparently never noted on the Of
fcial records. for no word has been re-
| ceived by the young soldiers parents
as to his fate. The first intinlation his
mother had that he was killed came
yesterday, when reporters, visited her
house asking for a picture of her son,
She almost collapsed. He was my only
sss she Sobhst 3D. did na aen saye see hew
war, but he was eager to serve his coun-
try How am to break the news to his
father and his sisters?'
Corporal Ransom's father was prom
for number of years, having been a
constable attached to Magistrate Toug-
hills Office.
Goldberg. was carpenter by trade
ball playe. He enlisted in|the regular
army a few days after war was de-
clared against Germany and after being
trained at Syracuse. New York. went
Corporal Gordon /. Bisb.ng, Com
wounded and gassed or August la, is
still in a base hospital, but is slowly
by his parents: with whom, he resided
al lO4 North Sixty-third street He is
twenty-seven years DID, and enlisted in
1915: serving on ths ;nea; Mexican & bosdeT
phia grammar school, he was employed
asa conductor by the Philadelphia Rapid
Transit Company. 4 brother in the
service recently was reported missing
but he since has been found in German
prison camp
Captain Joseph Gray Duncan, of Gym.
wyd, has been killed IN action according
to an Official telegram received by his
family He was
Cynwyd Captain sommandsr ,ssnn;an OF the
Killed in Action pany of the 3l5th
Infantry and had
been in France since July of this year.
Captain Duncan earned his commission
at the hrst officers training camp, at
Fort Niagara. New York. and was a.
once sent to Camp Meade. His regimen,
is largely made up of drafted men from,
Philadelphia and Delaware.
Captain Duncan is thirty-three years
old and leaves a widow and two children
He was engaged in the electrical bust.
ness when he felt the call to serve his
country and dropped everything to &c
to the training camp
Corporal william j. Jordan, COMPANY
L. Sixteenth Infantry. of oil Wintor
street, has been reported missing since
September II. He enlisted August "a
1911, trained at Gettysburg and Camr
| Greene, and sailed for France last
April. He received a grammar schoo
education in this city and was en-