Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-11-12
THREE AME RICANS
KILLED BY REDS
Red Cross Captain and Two
Nurses Are Slain.
TWO OTHERS MAKE ESCAPE
Dead Officer, Captain Fitzpatrick
Served in U. s. Army in France
as Lieutenant of Artillery
Distributing Relief Supplies.

London, Nov. 10.-Capt. Emmett Kill
patrick, representative of the ADeri-
can Red Cross in South Russia. and
two nurses were brutally killed dur
ing BOlshevik cavalry raid On Sal
kovO station, SebastOpol dispatch to
Reuters, Ltd, said.
Report Of Capture.
Washington, Nov. TO- - Reports
reached the State department that
Capt. Emmett Fitzpatrick and c. At
echny, founder of the Mennonite Re-
lief society, had been captured but
no mention was made of the death of
either. 1t was believed that the re-
cent assertion of the soviet govern
ment that an american mission"
headed by General Morel' had been
captured by their troops was founded
on the capture of Fitzpatrick.
Fitzpatrick was last seen at Novo
Alexeievs:z on October 80, stripped to
his underwear in bitter zero weather,
and being led away by Red cavalry
raiders" said the State departments
official announcement, given out be-
fore the report of the captains death
was received. 'His fate is conse-
Quently matter of grave concern"
Served in France.
Fitzpatrick served with the Ameri-
can army in France as lieutenant Of
field artillery and after the armis-
tice as chief of the supply division of
the American commission to nego-
tate peace He obtained his dis
charge from the army in Paris in
September, 1919 and became con-
nected with the peace commission.
When the commission was dis
solved, Fitzpatrick joined the Lithu-
anian army as a captain along with
number of other Americans and
saw several months of active service.
When the fighting ended he asked
for his discharge and returned to
Paris 20 join the American Red
Cross. He was ordered first to Con-
stantinople and then to Russia.
In the records of the War depart
ment, Kilpatrick's next of kin was
shown as Lilda M. Fitzpatrick, his
sister, Of Camden, Ala.
Two Escape BoIsheviks.
Sebastopol, Nov. 10.-Stephen A.
Venear of Albany, N. Y, and James
D. Heddinger of Baltimore were with
Fitzpatrick distributing relief supplies
among Russian civilians, but managed
to escape.
A heavy snow made the progress of
Venear and Heddinger across the
steppes difficult. Many times they
were obliged to take refuge in hol-
lows while Cossack patrols were oc-
cupying villages.
Maj. George Herbert Ryden of Kan
sas City, director of American Red
Cross operations in southern Russia,
said he believed the 20 remaining Red
Cross workers were safe.
These workers include Fred L. Bre-
gel, Fairfax, Mimi; Charles W..
Brown, New York; Robert Clewell,
Bellingham, WASH; Miller Davidson,
Ashland, KY; Wallace De Revere, Os-
shining, N. Y; Lyle M. Foster, Chi
CdSO, AOuIS H. I1CHuIICho, D1FCluOII,
ILL.,; Donald f. Jacobson, Freeport, N.
Y; Ellis A. johnson, Springfield,
Mass. Flavius l. Johnson, Joliet,
Mont; Edward G.. Lamb, ST. Louis
John D. !. MacNabb, Washington );
George Hoyt Smith, Cleveland, o.;
Michael J. Stapleton, Meriden, Conn. !;
Walter r. Thomas Steamboat Springs,
Colo. Joseph A. Trower, Williamsburg,
Pa; DR.. Milton Veldee, Bremerton,
WASH; Alamo D. Whittle. New York
city, and Leon x. Wiese, Missoula,
Mont.