Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1917 — 2 SOLDIERS PERISH AT SEA [ARTICLE]

2 SOLDIERS PERISH AT SEA

Pershing Says U. S. Men Were Swept Off Transport. Washington, Dec. 24. General Pershing reported the loss of two soldiers swept overboard and drowned from a transport at sea December 17, and the death of two others from gunshot wounds. The men lost at sea wer.e: Samuel 11. Kehl, corporal, engineers; mother, Mrs. Letty Andrews, Shenandoah, Pa. William F. Smith, private, engineers ; aunt, Mrs. Amanda Taylor, Chicago. Those who died of wounds were: Grover Goodall, sergeant, headquarters train, December 19; mother, ,Mrs. Ellen Goodall, Salmon, Pa. William Faun tleroy, stevedore regiment, December 20; father, George Fauntleyroy. Kingsdale. Ya.