Brooklyn Men Killed In Action At The Front. Three Deaths From Accident" Also Recorded on Pershing's Casualty List Family Doubt That Crandell Is Dead Private Salitsky's Mother Almost, Prostrated With Grief Over Loss of Son . ' ' , The Brooklyn casualties for the hy, us reported by the War .Department from Washington, are as follows: Killed In Action. , JOSEPH SALITSKY, No. 158 Sle. ' el street. . j kV'tUELi CRANDELL, No. 161 Uujer street. , Missing in Actios. :i IIKLAL J RANOWSK Y, No. ;ni3 Park place. , ARTHUR CMOS, No. 11 Cor- LOl IS OK 1XCCA, No. 3 Rlchard-tf.fii sureet. JllCHAEti IjOVELLI.VO, No, 112 Soholrs street. lilltVARO J. KEID, No. 7318 'liiird avenue. MiRGK-VJVT JfATHAN AININS-P1AN, No. 417 Boeriim place. FRANK V. AUSTIN, No. 88 Eleventh Ktt-et. t;ASPARO, LEGGIO. No. 148 Georgia street. HARRY VEINER, No. 814 Myrtle avenue, ... Wounded Severely. WILLIAM SHEA, No. 34S bexing-ton avenue. - LEO KAVANAGH, No. 1S9 Navy ' '"tORIUS rELTZ, No. 420 Jerome fcircet, THEODORE C. CONWAY', No. 18 dlenada plce. JOSEPH J. BERN AT, No. 98 'North Ninth street, JAMES MALONEY, No. 1248 Eighty-first, street. Died of Accident. SERGEAKTT WILLIAM E. EN- HiO, No. 138S Dean street. PATSEY BE CROTTA, No. 544 Central avenue. J1MI Y. XRIVISON, No. 1 19 Prcs-4Hnt street- I'rivate Samuel Crandell. reported to have been killed in action July Jd may hp alive and, according to a letter dated l .1ulv 28 and received a day or two ago l,v his family, he had been in the battle of the Marne. but had become lost. 'Crandell ia the son of lsadnr t randell, if No. Mil Maujer-ntrect. and he was .drafted last September, being sent to tamp Upton, where he was placed I -with the machine gnn battery of the Fourth Infantry. He went overseas t with the American Expeditionary Force in the late fall. The letter received from the young ,man and dated on Y. M. C. A. stationery July '28, was as follows: Dear Fntber-Joat a few lines to let vim know 1 returned from the battle of the Marne Hiver. 1 waa twice at the front and thank Ood I'm well. I expect to wtvii vw more news soon when I am tuii'k in my company. I was lost. 1 .believe you read in papers that the (J.nnane retreated. Give this letter to limb, tbj sweetheart). It is' for her .ifi.it the nme. I will write more news b-i'tri, from your dear son. Sam. -" Inst regard and kisses to dear Ruth andall else. God will help me. It Was after the receipt of this letter that the dispatch came from the War Department announcing regretfully the d4th in action of the young man. The father of the boy, when seen last night, said it was his belief that when liia son became lost, as he mentioned in bis letter, he waa believed by his superiors to have been lost in battle. Joseph J . Bernat, reported to have been severely wounded in action ia the 24-year-old son of .Michael and Anna Kernat, of No. 88 North Ninth street. At the time he waa drafted on April 2 and aent to Camp I'pton, he was employed in the Brooklyn Cooperage at Kent avenue and l.orth Sixth street, where also tne father is employed. From t'arap Upton the young man was sent to Spartanburg, where he was placed with Company 1 of the lOflth Infantry and, sent overseas in May. Only a postal announcing Bergnats safe arrival, slid but one letter from the young man wna ever Teeeived bv Ilia D& rents. in this letter Bernat bade goodhy to km parents and told them he knew fully well that he would never see Brooklyn SKnin. . , The familv of Rernat said last eve ning that three years ago Bernat tried to enlist in tne navy, nut ne was rejected because of a weak heart, and also a broken ear drum. Last May a Jeor ago, Bernat, while dancing, fell end broke, his right ankle, ana lor two months he was in a hospital. When he was drafted last spring lie .tried in vain to get exempted. There if one more son in the family. 13 years iild. and five sisters, roar Sons Killed Flighting for Allies. Prirnte Joseph Salitiy. reported lulled in action, lived with his widowed mother, Mrs. Annie Snlitsky, at No. ,153 Scigcl . street. The mother is heartbroken and seems on the verge of dementia as the mult of misfortune in 'the death of her son in the present war. 7he woman, in her frenzy, refused to ive any information about Joseph and what little was obtained was gleaned from neiiehbors. Joseph was 24 years old and wax drafted last year and sent to Camp I'pton from where be was transferred to a southern camp and put into an infantry regiment with which be was sent overseas in the fall. According to the information received about the family three other soldier .oos were killed in Russia when the Oar's government Mas overthrown. They had been lighting on the side of the Allies and tile revolution was in .prowess when they met death. There am two oth?r ions in the Russian ruiy somewhere, but wheire the two ire the widow does not know. They tuielit also be dead, the neighbors said. A daughter of the widow is very ill, and she does got know of the fate of ,ioeph. Private Michael Lovinua, reported mining in action, wraa the twenty-one- car-old son of a widow, Mrs. Lena Lo-vinna, of No. 142 Sdioles street. The young man was drafted last fall and inter beinc scut to Camp Upton was mntriferred to southern camp from vtinre lie was sent overseas. His -ortbroken mother was unable to tell t'.e name of the regiment he' was with Wt he said that In letrers Hhe Teeeived Oem him lie told her lie expected to he iu stin nt any time. The dispatch i' ' io ihe War Irnartmpm slated that ! .uemi iaiir missing in adion July 2."). I'....;-, f , I-ouia l"iel-u-m. reported I- . . t -ii'Meii. ivlmse ftdilrens wii r. ' v'n :t I; Vi.f. r-lwuil Mreer( is : ! . f! ;wr f.- v.i:-;'rH in the A ,;v r : ..y rviui a telegram from the War Department, searched in vain everywhere for the address of the young man. Private Lawrence Pelts, who is reported as sjead of wounds received in action, was 22 years old, and the son of Samual and Cecelia Peltx, of No. 420 Jerome street. Lie was a member of Company C, Sixteenth Infantry, According to his parents, he had been in the service more than three years, being two years on the border and one year in France. Before enlisting he was an electrician by trade, working for some concern in Manhattan. His parents will not believe that tlteir son is Head, saying that-at the time the organisation their son went overseas with, there was another Lawrence Peltx, and they believe the authors ties have made a mistake, despite the telegram received from the ar De partment, saying that Lawrence died from wounds, he has two brothers and two sisters. Conway Was in Mexico With General Pershinar. Theodore C. Conway, 21 years old. reported severely Vounded in France, was a clerk ill the Metropolitan Trust Co., Manhattan, before enlistinK in the Twenty-third Regiment. He served on the Mexican border under General Pershing, fcarly this year he was sent Spartanburg, where lie wss transferred to Company L KKith Infantry. He went with his regiment to France some months ago. Conway was a mess sergeant at the time Jie landed in France, but he was eager for "action and succeeded in being made a nrivate. His mother. Mrs. Irene Conway. .No. wsi Greene avenue. received word from the r. ar Depart ment on July Zo, that her son had been severely veounded. Patsy" ii Grota. 20 years old. list ed among those severely wounded, had lived at IXo. o44 Central avenue. A year ago he was sent to Fort Sloeum. with the 114th Infantry. Later he was transferred to Cump McClellan, and about three months ago left for France. His father Joseph Ii Grota, who has a bootblack stand at Bushwick avenne and Madison street, recently received word that "Patsy" had been wounded on July 27. The young man bad been an assistant to his father before enlisting. Henry Weiner, 18 years old, reported missing in France, had lived with his uncle, Morris Gold, at No. 814 Myrtle avenue, before going to Fort Slocum a year ago, where he became attached to an artillery regiment. After a course of training he was shipped to France. Weiner came to this country from Russia four years ago. Before enlisting he was an operator in. a garment factory. Morris Agranowsky. 24 years old, who enlisted under the nsme of Morris "Hctal." is listed among those missing. He had lived with his brother, David Agranowsky. at No. 1778 Park place, before going away. David now lives t No. 390 Saratoga avenue. David changed hia name because four years ago he deserted from the Ruwian army, after having been forced into service. He took the passports of another brother and succeeded in reaching this country. He kept his new name for the reason that he alwayB was afraid of being deported to Russia. His brother David, was astonished at receiving a letter from him on July 12. as Morris did not know how to write before going abroad. The letter said that a French woman had taken the trouble to teach him how to write. Morris said that he was one of sixty men who had been granted a furlough to visit Paris, and that all were soon to be decorated for bravery. Shea, Wounded, Advises Friends to Enlist. William E. Shea. 25 years old, of No. 343 Lexington avenue, was wounded on August 4. Before he was drafted he was a plumber. Shea was drafted from Board No. 63, at Tbroop avenue and Putnam avenue, May 3, IMS. and after three days at Fort Slocum went to Camp McClellan, sailing for France on June 12. He was a member of Company L, 114th Infantry. A brother John, 22, enlisted in the Naval Reserves on July 13. On July 1 Shea wrote to his brother: '.Tliae tn let vnil know T am nav hM in France in nice quiet little town. The old churches and buildings are wonder ful to look at. N e are roing to have a big athletic meet here on Sunday. I exptct to walk off with a few medals. Jack, take my advise and enlist. This life is the only life. I eipect to gog into the erenches soon. Wish you were with me. If the boys in the United States not in the service could see the ruins. I bet they would enlist at once with a outrequest to be sent into the trenches without training." , Theodore C. Conway, of No. 18 Glenada place, was wounded on August 1, according to word received by his mother, Mrs. Irene E. Conway. He Is 21 years old and enlisted in the Twenty-third Infantry throe yeiira. serving as n cook on the Mexican border. Re-fore he eDlisted he was with the Metropolitan Trust Company. He went to France last February as a member of Company L, KHIlh Infantry, and became a mess sergeant over there. On July 5 he wrote to his mother: '.'As a mess sergeant I do not get any training or do 1 get real action. I enlisted to do my bit and when I come back I want to say 1 was in tne lines of the fighting. Last week our captain asked for three voluteefs Urman a machine gun. 1 and two others were accepted. So from now on I will be right in the fight, and hope to go over the top with the rest of the boys. Don't worry. It wont take long." A brother, Horace. 23 is snpsly sergeant at Camp Hancock, i.

"We are 6ghting hard. We will paint Germany and all tb Germans red, white and blue pretty soon. We have them running away from us now and it won't be long before they quit coid. I am feeling Sue." This letter was written July 2 by Sergeant William Edward Ensko to his mother. Sergeant Ensko, 31 years old, was injured in an automobile accident on July 25 and died in a hospital in France, July 30. Before he enlisted he was a salesman for the National Biscuit Company. He enlisted last year, sent to Fort Slocum and in January was promoted to a sergeant. He left for France in May as a member of Company C. 318th, Pioneer Engineers. Ensko lived at No. 1383 Dean street, Brooklyn.

Frank Austin, 26 years old, reported missing in action JUly 18, was a member of Company D, Ninth Infantry, In which he enlisted with his brother, Charles V shortly after the declaration of war by this country. Private Austin was an attendant of St. Thomas Aquinas Church. Fourth avenue and Ninth street. He was born in Ulster County, N. Y., and has lived in this borough eighteen years. He resided with bis parents at No.. 309 Eleventh street ' Previous to his enlisting -Privste -Austin was employed bv the jtjonsoli-dated Gas Company of Vlanbattan. He attended Public School No. 4, Berkeley nlaee. Besides his brother Charles who is a member of the same company' and raiment. Private Austin has another brother, stationed in t'noip Johnson. Flori'ia, with Iatjr Com pany NO. iiJ. 1 n.i.-iiig jil iicliuu J .Ay l-s. was s Oiedi-

• "We are fighting hard. We will paint Germany and all the Germans red, white and blue pretty soon. We have them running away from us now and it won't be long before they quit cold. I am feeling fine." This letter was written July 2 by Sergeant William Edward Ensko to his mother. Sergeant Ensko, 31 years old, was injured in an automobile accident on July 25 and died in a hospital in France, July 30. Before he enlisted he was a salesman for the National Biscuit Company. He enlisted last year, sent to Fort Slocum and in January was promoted to a sergeant. He left for France in May as a member of Company C. 318th, Pioneer Engineers. Ensko lived at No. 1383 Dean street, Brooklyn.

• William Edward Ensko (1888-1918)

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