Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-14

The War Department today issues the
smallest casualty reported in several
months. There are only 367 names for
the nation.
Included in the report are fifty-one
names of men from this State, the
number recorded for the city alone yes
terday. with a total of seven names
on the city's honor roll today Philadel-
phia has the smallest list in months.
Word was received from the War
Department today that several thousand
minor casualties were yet to be an
nounced. Congested conditions in the
War Offlce at Washington have made
II necessary to withhold the names for
few days.
After three months of waiting. rela-
tives have learned the fate of Corporal
Leroy b. Hinton. 4252 Regent street, who
was reported killed in action in Sep
tember
Corporal Hinton was a member of the
3l5th Infantry, and before entering the
military service was associated with
McFadden Brothers, cotton brokers, of
this city.
Letter Tells of Death
The following statement concerning
Corporal Hinton and how he was killed.
was received in a letter to Robert H.
Berk. 1882 Regent street signed by a
sergeant of the company of which
Hinton had been a member.
The 3l5th Infantry was holding the
front lines in the Argonue sector on
September 20, and all efforts TO bring
up supplies had failed because the Ger
man artillerymen had trained their big
guns on the only road that food and
water could be brought up.
Volunteers were called for from The
men In the trenches to bring up food and
: water to supply the immediate needs
, of-the hard-pressed infantry division.
Corporal Hinton volunteered for this
: detail and when returning was mortally
wounded by a bursting shell. He lived
only a few hours. OF the tweuty men
in the detail only four survived
Corporal Hinton was born in Vir-
ginia, but spent much of his boyhood
In this city and finished his education
at the De Lancey School. brother
DR.. Brewry Hinton, has served with dis.
tiHction in France for mere than two
years.
MISSING soldier Found
One of the Phiadelphians on the list
today is said to have died of diseas,
. and one of wounds. Three are reported
y wounded severely and one man who
was previously reported missing. has
returned to duty.
Another mistake is Acknowledged n,
the War Department today. Priyat,
Joseph Gabrielle. 762 North Ninth street
who was reported killed in action. /.
: now declared to have returned to duty
lie was uninjured, tGe official telegra n
said
SKETCHES OF THE HEROES
PRIVATE Joseph Cavanaugh. seyerl,
wounded at the battle along the Vesl,
RIVER has returned to this country ant
is now at the home OF his parents a
: SOL North Twenty-sixth street. Cava
naugh Is attached to the 3l3th Infantry
Seventy-ninth Division, and had the dis
: tinction Of capturing three boche ma
chine-gunners and destroying their nes
single handed. He was drafted in Ma,
1918, trained at Camp Meade and wen
overseas in July.
He is twenty-four years old and befor,
entering the service made his home will
{ his parents at the Twenty-sixth stree
- address. He has almost completely re
y covered from his wounds and expects e
. be mustered out of the service soon.
Private George W. Esher, 524 Eas
? Johnson street. Germantown, was killed
in France when a colonels motorcar
81. u-.,y which he was driv
!. co"ie' hiIed ing overturned. ac
When Coioners cording to officia
word received b,
Lar overturned his mother yester
day. Esher hat
: been official headquarters courier 10
the 3O6th Tank Corps, and the acciden
happened January 2l. He was instantl,
killed. said the War Department mes
sage.
Private Esher sailed for overseas il
December. 1917. as a member of Ambu
lance Corps 40, which was stationed a
Allentown. After he arrived in Franc
he made application for a transfer I,
the rank Corps in order to get into ac
tion. he said in a letter.
II never expected to live through TN
Argonne fighting" he said in a lette
home shortly after the armistice wa
signed. Il was darting hither an,
thither with the colonel and was the of
fetal messenger besides" He was IN
son of Mr. and Mrs. George II. Thoma
Esher and had made his home wit
them at the johnson street address. II
was twenty years old
Private julius /kouba, 536 East John
son street, reported wounded in today
casualty list was gassed in Octobe
while running an ambulance. He Is
member OF the Forty-nlnth Ambulanc
Corps and had been overseas since De
cember, 1917 According to recent lei
ters he wrote home, he has recovere
and returned to dtItV