The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-07
MARINES TAKE LEAD
ON ROLL OF HONOR
Young New York Lieutenant
Among Those Reported
Seriously Wounded.
WIDOWS ONLY SON HIT
Brooklyn Private Dies From
Blood Poison Caused by
Razor Cut.
WIDOWS ONLY SON HIT

4 For about the hrst time since the
American troops overseas have been en-
gagged in extensive fighting the marine
casualty list exceeded that Of the other
branches of service yesterday. On the
casualty report the names Of ia men,
bers Of the Marine Corps appeared,
against 43 casualties reported by Gen.
Pershing. Among the marines six men
were killed in action. Is died OF wounds
2S were wounded severely, SO were
wounded but the degree Of the wounds
had not been determined. and IS men
were missing In action.
In Gen. Pershing's report Is men were
killed in action. two died Of wounds. flve
died Of disease, one man was acct
dentally killed. II were severely wound
ed and two were missing in action. n
the Marine Corps list there appeared the
names OF eleven boys from this State.
Among the New York men mentioned
was Lieut. Frederick @. Wagner OF 571
West 139th street, who was reported
| seriously wounded. At the address given
no information could be obtained con-
| corning the young Lieutenant, as his
family are spending the summer In Mas
sachusetts.
Widows Son wounded.
| Private Raymond F. Munzer OF SIS
| East 127th street, who was among the
marines wounded In action. previous to
his enlistment had been living with his
mother, who In widow Munzer, an
only son. enlisted when he was 90 years
old Mrs. Munzer could not be located
| yesterday. but II was stated at her home
! that She had received n letter from the
boy about three weeks ago in which he
said that he had been wounded but that
the injury had been very slight. He
! added that he expected to return to the
front in a very short time. 1t is believed
that the War Department notification
which Mrs MunEer received yesterday
was merely a repetition OF her SON.
statement in the letter.
Private William J. Allen Of 20l u
Thirty-fourth street. Brooklyn. died In
France from acute blood poisoning, &C
cording to a letter received yesterday BY
his father The letter was written b,
NJ. A. Dunno. nun, in the hospita
where young Allen was being treated
She wrote that Private Allen had cut
! himself while shaving and that twenty
four hours later his jaw had sweled
and blood poison had set in. She said
that the boy had been buried In the
cemetery OF the village OF St RieguieI
and that after the war his parents could
easily locate his resting place. as the
nuns were taking care of the graves.
Allen was 20 years old and a member
OF the 1osth Infantry Last September
he enlisted. being ordered to Spartan
burg in October. He sailed for France
on May s. In HIS last letter Allen wrote
his mother saying: Il suppose you reat
in the papers about the drive the Jerry.
| Uhe name given to the Germans) made
But they didn't succeed"
Made Fine Record.
Lieut.. ]. Kenneth Rutherford, Jr, ha,
been severely wounded according to &
despatch received By his sister. Mrs
| Abner Keeney Clark OF l5s Alta avenue
Park Hill, Yonkers. Mrs. Clark sale
yesterday tina: her brother was one o.
the first American officers to lead United
States troops into German territory. Sh'
said that her brother had written o.
having taken part in an offensive agains
the Germans in Alsace-Lorraine las
May, exactly one year after his gradua
ton from the OfYicers Training Camp a
Plattsburg.
rutherford IL 25 years old. and wa!
born in Waddington. y. Y. where hi:
parents still live. He received his com
mission last September. and after arrlv
ing in France in January was assigned
! 10 an officers training camp back OF tn,
lines He was later made an instructor
in the Rainbow Division He has
brother. Lewis, also a Lieutenant. who
is now doing foreign duty. and hi,
brother-in Law, Major Ira Allen. IL II
charge OF the hospital depot at For
SloCum.
Private Albert ], Prinza. ESQ Fourtt
avenue. Brooklyn. who was listed In yes
terday's casualties among the severely
wounded. was born in Italy 10 yearsago
coming to this country when two year,
old, He enlisted in the Sixth Regiment
of United states Marines in May. 1917
and was assigned to the Eighty -secont
Company He sailed last October or
June his parents learned in letter
from him that he was in a hospital II
Paris, having been wounded in the lef
hand
Corporal Pince a Pioneer.
Corporal William Pince another Of
the Marine Corps wounded, worked II
the mechanical department OF the Hack