New-York tribune., 1920-11-10
Capt. Fitzpatrick Stripped
of Clothing in Zero
Weather and Led Away
as Captive by Troops
Two Nurses Other
Victims of Raid
New York Man Made Pris-
oner in Cavalry Attack
at Salkovo, but Escapes

LONDON, Nov. 9.-Captain Emmet
Fitzpatrick, of Uniontown, Pa. repre-
sentative of the American Red Cross
IN South Russia, and two nurses we're
brutally killed during Bolshevik
cavalry raid on Salkovo Station, SAYS
a Sebastopol dispatch to Reuter-, Ltd,
tonight
WASHINGTON, Nov. g. Reports
reached the State Department to-day
that Captain Emmet Fitzpatrick. of the
American Red Cross, and c. Atechny,
of the Mennonite Relief Society, No.
Madison Avenue, New York City,
had been captured IN the Soviet ad-
vance in southern Russia. but no men
tion WAS made of the possible death
of either one.
Stripped of Clothing
Fitzpatrick was last seen at Novo
AleXeievska on October 80, stripped
to his underclothes in bitter zero
weather, and being led away by Red
cavalry leaders, said the State Depart
ment's official announcement. given out
before the report of the captains death
was received His fate is consequent
ly u matter of grave concern"
Fitzpatrick. formerly publisher Of a
country newspaper, served with the
American army in France as lieutenant
of field artillery and after the armistice
as chief of the supply division Of the
American commission to negotiate
peace. He obtained his discharge from
the army in Paris in September, 1919
and became connected as civilian
with the peace commission.
When the commission was dissolved
Fitzpatrick joined the Lithuanian army
as a captain along with other Arneri-
cans and saw several months of active
service on the Lithuanian Bolshcvik
battlefront. When the fighting ended
he asked for his discharge and returned
to Paris TO join the American Red
Cross in 1920 and be ordered first to
Constantinople and then to southwest
Russia
In the records of the War Depart
shown as Lilda NJ. Fitzpatrick, q sister
of Camden. MIR. Atochny, who is
founder Of the Mennonite Relief So
ciety, landed at Halberstadt on Octo-
Der %.
sEBAsT0pOL. Nov. 9 (By The AS
sociated Press) Captain Emmett K H.
patrick was captured at Novo AeXeiev-
ska on October %, when a ctachmecnt
of Budenny's cavalry swept down the
west coats of the Sea Of Azov and sur
rounded the town.
Two Companions Escape
Stephen A. Venoar. Of Albany, N. Y.
and James D. Heddinger, of Baltimore
Nd, were with Fitzpatrick at the time
Of his capture. The three were busy
distributing relief supplies among Rus
sian civilians, but Nenear and Heddin-
ger managed to escape. Fitzpatrick
however. being in remote part of the
town, was cut off by Cossacks
heavy snow had fallen, making the
progress of Nenear and Eeddingel
across the wind-swept stcppes ex-
tremely painful and difficult. Many
times they were obliged to take refuge
IN hollows and other hiding places
while ragged Cossack patrols we're oc-
cupying hamlets and villages.
Major George Herbert Ryden, OF
Kansas City, director of American Rec
Cross operations in Southern Russia
said to-day he believed all the remain
ing Red Cross workers, numbe ring
twenty, are safe. All of them are men
the Red Cross not employing women ir
this territory
The twenty workers who are believed
to be safe in the Crimea are Fred L
Bregel, Fairfax MINI; Charles "
Brown, New York; Robert Clcwell
Bellingham, Wash; Miller Davidson
Ashland, Ky; Wallace de Revere, Os
shining, n. Y; Lyle NJ. Foster, Chicago
Louis +. Henricks, Divernon. H.; Don.
aid f. Jacobson, Freeport. L. l.: Ellis
A. Johnson, Springfield, Mass; Flavius
!. johnson, Joliet, Mont; Edward G
Lamb, st. Louis. Mo; John d. Mae
Nabb, Washington, d. c.; George
Schlosser, Nashville, Tenn; George
Hoyt Smith, Cleveland, Ohio; Mchae
}. Stapleton. Meriden, Conn; Walter
r. Thomas, Steamboat Springs, Colo;
Joseph a. Trower, Williamsburg. Pa;
DR.. Milton Veldee, Bremerton, Wash.
Alonzo d. Whittle, New York, and Lcor
Wiesc Miccor,o Nop.