Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-06
HERO REPORTED
AS DEAD Is ALIVE
War Department Corrects
Mistake in Case of John ].
O'Neal, This City
HAD BEEN IN HOSPITAL
Another Philadelphian Es.
capes Bullets, Later Gassed,
and Hurt i'm Train Wreck

Shot in the right chest with machine
gun bullets, and lying in a base hos
Dital In France too weak to write home,
private John ]. ONeaL, 1913 Willard
street. this city. was reported dead of
wounds by the War Department and
given up by relatives.
Members of the invalid soldiers fam
fly were notified by Adjutant Harris,
on August 4. that he had died. and
only learned that he was alive when
they received a letter from him.
O'Neals name appears on the OIL
cially corrected casualty report today.
In letter received from him recently
by a brother here he said that he
had recovered from his wounds and
was on garrison duty in Germany. He
is attached to Company G, 6Oth imam
try. and has ben overseas since May
of last year
He was drafted in November, 1917,
trained at Camp Meade, and was trans
ferred to Camp Lee. He received his
wounds while fighting near Chateau
Thierry July 30 Before being drafted
re was employed by the Electric Stor-
age Battery Company and made his
home with brother at the wizard
street address. He was born in Ireland.
and is twenty-four years old. His par
ents have never come to this country.
Hurt in Train wreck
Private Felix Francis Quinn, on the
city's honor roll today. was gassed after
he had gone through the big offensives
from Chateau Thierry to Ferdun without
receiving a scratch. He recovered, but
while on train riding to where he was
to embark for home was severely in
jured in a wreck.
This information came in a letter from
the soldier to his parents, living at 2l34
Titan street. Quinn Is member of
Battery d. 103d Field Artillery, Yam
kee Division" He, with a friend
Charles Gross. 1904 Reed street. after
constantly being in the fighting area to-
gether for nine months, ran into gas
barrage eleven days before the armistice.
Both recovered quickly Gross. 1t was
learned, was not injured in the railroad
wreck but for some reason did not sail
for home as expected.
Quinn and Gross entered the army
November. 1917, trained at Camp Meade
and sailed overseas January II, 1918,
They were both transferred to the Twen-
ty-sixth Division from New England
and fought side by side in every battle
until they fell at Verdun on October 81
Before entering the army they worked
together with a publishing company
here Quinn has virtually recovered
from the injuries he received in the
wreck, he wrote home.
wounded and Back Home
Private Robert Lipscomb. negro, an"
other of the city men in the wounded
report, has returned to this country and
Is now at Camp Upton Convalescent
Hospital. He was gassed at the battle
in the Argonne Woods.
Mrs. Carrie Lipscomb, wife of the
wounded soldier, lives at 2129 Shars-
wood street Sc is daily looking for
her husband to return with a discharge
from the army. Lipscomb is thirty-one
years old. He was drafted in July and
trained at Camp Meade for a few weeks
before sailing as a member of Company
+. 368th Infantry.
With only four names of men from
this section on the honor roll today the
citys casualty list Is steadily decreas-
ing. No deaths of Philadelphians in the
army are reported today. Aside from
the man classified as returned to duty.
the city list is made up of wounded
Forty Pennsylvanians are in the re-
port.