Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-08

Three men whose names appear on
today's official casualty report have all
ready returned to their homes in this
city.
They are Private Charlie Klotzhlcker
2539 Bancroft street; Sergeant Samuel
Beattie, $500 Limekiln pike. and Private
Cornelius Creedman, o25 East ontario
street.
Private Creedman was attached TO
Company C, lo3d Ammunition Train
He was severely wounded October 26
when through the dark he drove truck
loaded with high explosives into an open
trench.
THE whole truck load went on >
said Creedman today, land it's a Won
der l was not blown to pieces
Private Crcedman was almost con-
tinuously in danger of death at the
front. With the train always loaded
with high explosives. the boys Of the
1O3d never stopped for enemy fire.
The roads we had to travel were
under fire all the time, and l can't re-
member a time when we were not In
danger" 'Creedman said. He is thirty
years old and married
The total Of Philadelphians on the
casualty list takes a slight drop today.
There are only twenty-eight names on
the honor roll nor this section today
and of these fourteen are men reported
wounded slightly. Nine others are clas-
sifled as wounded, with degree undeter-
mined.
Private Patrick O'Brien. Mount Airy,
Is listed in the report as killed in action
and Private Alexander Mclean, 2317
North Twenty;ninth street. who died OF
disease. are the only fatalities in the
army overseas for this city reported to-
day.
The three remaining soldiers. on the
list for Philadelphia are wounded Sc
verely.
One hundred and sixty-two from this
State, more than two-thirds of whom
are wounded, are in the report for the
country today. Two hundred and sixty
major casualties bring the nations total
up to 1880 for today.
SKETCHES OF THE HEROES
Private George johnson, Coatesville
according to the War Department, wal
wounded in the arm. In a recent lettel
home he wrote tha
Private Wounded, comrade was kill
Comrade Killed. She'll sS BY that the Woundat sam,
Whtte the 1trO hiin Il was In tn,
pur. act of taking tn,
Ho"eo .'gd'e"es making of a cigar
ette foe a comradt
when shell exploded near and killed
my comrade, wounding me in the arm,
wrote the soldier.
Private johnson is a member of Com
pany G, Eighth Infantry, and has beer
overseas since July last. He trained a
Camp Hancock a month before sailing
He Is graduate of St Cecilia's Paro
chial School and is an athlete.
Sergeant Edmond Is. Beattie, 632,
Limekiln pike, a member of Compan,
@, 114th Infantry was severely wounded
October IL, in both ankles by machine
: gun bullets and shrapnel
Sergeant Beatty is twenty-three year
Old and was formerly Of the old Thir,
Regiment of New Jersey. When Con
gress declared war on Germany he wa
sent to Sea Girt for training, and late
transferred to camp at Admission, Ala.
sailing for France in June. Sergean
Beattie has two brothers In the service
Thomas, who is chief petty officer II
the navy and Samuel G. Beattie, of tn,
naval aviation unit.
Sergeant Samuel Beattie. who arrive,
home Sunday with discharge from tn
service, visited his wounded brother ii
a French hospital on the day the ar
mistice was signed. He is rapidly i'm
proving, the returned hero told his par
ents.
IhonaS -. bedttle, the naval officer, Il
twenty-eight years old, and has serve,
In the navy for twelve years.
Private Herman w. LANCER. III,
North Twenty-sixth street, report et
wounded, was really gassed, accordin,
TO letters he has written to relatives
lie is a member of Company c, 27ti
Pioneer Infantry and served on tn,
Mexican border. Training at Hancocl,
he sailed for France In May. A broth
er, Frank LANCER. served during tn,
war-with the same company.
Private Charles Klotzhicker, asa.
Bancroft street, whose name appear
among the wounded on the official cas-
ualty report today. wounded In In,
battle of the Argonne In the right kne.
and the right side. returned to thi
country last Tuesday He was con
fined to a base hospital In France fol
i've weeks with his wounds.
Private George Griffith Thaokerx
Company l.. 4th Infantry. shell shocke,
in July, recovered and was gassed Oc
tober is. His mother. Mrs. Jenn,
Thackery, las Kalos street. Wissahick
on, has received War Department mes
sagss and letters from her son 10 hi
effect. Private Thackery enlisted II
the regular army two months after thi
country entered the war. and afte
training It Gettysburg for = bhort TIM
va transferred 70 Camp Greene. whSr,
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