New-York tribune., 1918-10-01
Taught German at
Princeton; Di e S
Fighting the Huns
Lieutenant Glover One of
Five Faculty Men ON
Casualty List

One Princeton University professor
was reported yesterday killed in &C
tion and another wounded severely,
making total of five members of the
faculty who have already been listed
among the casualties of the American
participation in the war.
A dispatch from London received
yesterday at Princeton, N. j., an
nounced the death of Lieutenant G. II.
Glover, former professor Of German
there. Lieutenant Glover left Prince
ton in 1915, went to England, where he
. trained and received his commission in
rife brigade. He received the Dis
tinguished Service Order in his first
engagement. the battle of the Somme,
in 1915.
Lieutenant Glover was twice wound
ed, but held an advanced post when
the ammunition had run out by throw
ing hand grenades at the advancing
foe with his left hand when his right
had been shattered by bullet He
was wounded mortally on August 81
and died two days later.
Captain l.. Wardlaw Miles, professor
of English literature at the uni
versity, was severely wounded by a
bursting shell on September Il, &C
cording to a message received by Presi-
dent Hibben, of Princeton, yesterday
from American Ambassador Sharpe at
D.. L.
France, with one leg amputatcd and
both arms broken.
Captain Mles attended the first
Plattsburg camp, was commissioned a
lieutenant. and attached to the 3O7th
Infantry. He was sent to Camp Upton
, and went overseas in the spring. His
regiment had seen some of the heaviest
fighting near Chateau Thierry. He was
cited for gallantry and for ability to
inspire his men, and was made a cap
tain in August.
Lieutenant Madison II. Lewis, report
ed severely wounded in action, was in
jured when a bursting German shell
hurled him from a pontoon bridge into
river, where he was gassed while
swimming to land. Lieutenant Lewis
is the son of Mr.. and Mrs Edward 3.
Lewis, of 205 East Twenty fourth
Street. His father is the president Of
the j. NJ. Horton Ice Cream Company
He is twenty-five years old, Yale
graduate and Plattsburg man.
Lieutenant Chester Il. Winans, Of
Yonkers, was killed IN action on Sep
tember IL, according to word received
yesterday by his mother, Mrs. Emma
B. Winans. Lieutenant Winans, who
was a student at Columbia University
when he went to Plattsburg, died in the
performance of an act Of heroism sim>-
lar to the ones for which he had been
cited previously.
In the recent action, according to q
letter from friend in arms, Lieutcn-
ant Winans stopped panic among the
men of his company, l., of the 10th
Infantry, and thereby saved the lives
of ten men of his command In the
same engagement, under intense fire
he bound up the wounds of five pri-
Yates in his company, before he was
| himself wounded
Corporal Isaac Rotgard, another Co
lumbia University student, was killed
on the Marne front in hand to- hand
fighting at night in dense forest from
which American troops were trying tc
dislodge the enemy. Details of his
| death were contained III a letter sent
by Sergeant William Benjamin, of S04
East 169th Street who was himselt
wounded in the same engagement.
81 was told this by a surgeon who
dressed stomach wound for Rotgard,
wrote Sergeant Benjamin. "Whilc his
first wound was being dressed he was
hit again and killed. Sergeant Begony
who was with him. said that kotgarc
died like q man. He was fighting
bravely, and his pals we're sorry to see
! him 60"