New-York tribune., 1919-02-15
1900 Troops
RidePl,lllggingg
Seas TO Safety
Reach New York Port on
Two Ships; Many Ill and
Wounded Brought Home
Johns Hopkins Unit Back
Operaiion Performed Dur
ing Hurricane Saves life
of Fighter Hit by Wave

The cruiser Charleston and the
+-anspo-. Finland came into port yes
,erday with $500 veterans OF the
American overseas force Nearly 1000
=, the 1854 on the Finland were i'll
~ wounded. Seven died on the voyage
home.
Both vessels weathered gales at sea,
ard tn. Charleston brought a story of
=, operation performed to save the
ufo Of an injured soldier in the midst
- storm 50 violent it took five men
e. hold the ships surgeons on their
feet.
Private Theodore Caron, OF the 50th
Coast Artillery. standing near port
Aole. was struck by wave with such
force his skull was fractured and his
,ef. eve torn from its socket.
THE wind blew 100 miles an hour,
tossing the cruiser like cork. Sew
srsl sailors and the chaplain. Father
FL. Hurney, held Caron on the oper-
st;nr table and five seamen held Drs-
p Genereau and w. A ]. Wright as
tbsv pled scalpel and needle. For two
hotN-s thev worked over Caron. They
,reparned his skull, attended to his
eve. and took fourteen stitches iT
cash IN his cheek. 1t was said Caron
vN recover.
Aerial Hero Returns
Lieutenant ". D. Frayne, of sos
Wet l1lth Street. was oHe Of the
nineteen casual officers aboard the
Charlesson. He served a year with
~ 5o.b Aero squadron, and has been
recommended for the Distinguished
Serv,ce Cross for safely landing his
irlane after it mad caught atire, saw
n, the life OF his wounded observer.
Iieutenar- Fayue is officially credited
u.tb having shot down TWO foe ma
gaines.
Jour officers and 1,196 men of the
seth Coast Artillery. regular army
tor.v members of the old eth Coast
Arr!lery and twenty-one casual en-
listed men from New Jersey.
The Charleston docked at neon at
Per /. Hoboken.
The FINLAND tied up at Pier 3, Ho-
hoken. a. $3.50 Yesterday morning. Her
COMPLEMENT included twenty-four avl-
ators, Base Hospital Unit No. 18, Of
Johrs HopAins University, fifteen
casual companies and 939 SICK or
worrlei men.
Ftstv-three Of the hospital cases de-
veioDed on the voyage. The seven who
died we're:
Lieutenant John D. Parsons, Dixon,
IT,. CORPORAL Ludwig L. Tuft, of Frs
kline MINI. Corporal Robert I. Dest-
er of Batavia. y. Y; Private Eskiel
Have. OF Ponita, La; Private Square
Moody. of Monford. Tex; Private will
lam H Bruins. of St. Louis. and Pri
vAss William +. Rogerson, of Kansas
Cty No.
Johns Hopkins Unit Home
TIE Johns Hopkins unit, which re
turned under command Of Major R. f.
Kiefer, Of Hagerssown. Md, went to
rance in May, 1877. Their overseas
base vas manned by thirty-one officers.
sixty nurses and $50 men. The unit
treated nearly $4,000 cases, 5000 of
:hsm beng sufferers from wounds.
Two nurses and three enlisted men OF
tae star died overseas.
Among the hospital patients on the
faand was Private Patrick 0 OKeefe
o. 3s5 Easr io4th Street, a member
of Company G. 165th Infantry the old
eath lie was wounded and gassed
on July 81 aal again wounded on No
veuoer D.
Captain Williams on Finland
Osaer wounded men were Corporal
Jsres DHtY 763 Tenth Avenue; Cor
poFei AZ ar J Lee, 1905. Seventy
stree. Brooklyn; Private Alfred II.
Fep1 1855 Bedford Avenue. Brooklyn;
lritate Walter H. Thompson, 1872
Llgnts Avenue, Brooklyn; Corporal
Seofge I. Z.egler 525 West 169th
Stree. Private Frank Nugent. 399
lolgi8ss Street. BROOKLYN. Corporal
John oroaer berg, Sc SchaFer Street.
Brcos,n. Sergeant Louis Lovenson
~ Nef i3th Street; Corporal Grover
Weber. 1853 Bieecker Street, Brooklyn
CAPITA p Arthur r. Williams, Of 182
10 stille Street. Newark, y. j. VINO
wa wounded by shrapnel at Chateau
Iaisr~y on July "a. and gassed in the
Argonne On October 10, was on the
traaxgsr-
One 81 ne aviators aboard was Lieu
tsna1t =. 3. Freeman. Of New York
Ut september "a he met four German
pianes wnicn forced him TO descend
re Rds n q German prison camp till
Decsmbe~
Lieutenant Claude Thomas. Of Okla
.eh'a Cry. known az Lefty" Thomas,
NAshirSto1 American League team
p'cnef was on tho Finland.
Al troops on the transport were
Tgnaer command of Brigadier General
D~riei kescaam. veteran of the Philip
P'nfs campaign