Extracted from The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, NC)
Wednesday, January 2, 1918

SIX SOLDIERS DIE WITHIN LAST FORTY-EIGHT HOURS

Is the Largest Number of Deaths to Occur at Camp In Similar Period of Time

Within the past 48 hours - six deaths have occurred at the base hospital at Camp Greene, due to pneumonia, this being the largest number of deaths to occur in such a short period of time since soldiers began mobilizing there.

The deaths were reported at the undertaking establishment of Z. A. Hovis & Son during yesterday. The names of two soldiers who died yesterday morning, however, had not been announced last night.

The death of the six soldiers during Monday and Tuesday brings the total number of deaths at Camp Greene to 23. Of this number, 12 have died within the past two weeks.

Private Edward T. Bonnett, of Company D, Seventh infantry, died Monday morning at 5:30 o'clock. He was 27 years of age and was a native of Weston, W. Va. A military funeral will be accorded the remains in the chapel of Z. A. Hovis & Son this afternoon at 3 o'clock. The body will be sent to Weston for interment, tonight. The chaplain of the Seventh regiment will conduct the funeral.

Priviate Robert Cady, of the national army detention camp, died yesterday morning at 1:45 o'clock. The home of the deceased had not been reported last night.

Private Robert J. McGinty, of Company E., Thirty-eighth infantry died Monday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. Thomas L. Sculthorpe, also of Company E. Thirty-eighth infantry, died early yesterday morning. The home of these soldiers had not been reported last night.

The bodies of soldiers are detained at Camp Greene for some hours after death and, therefore, no report is made to the undertaker in the city for several hours after death has occurred.

The funeral services for Private Clayton M. Ruskin, who died at the base hospital Sunday, was conducted in the chapel of Hovis & Son yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock. The chaplain of the Sixtieth regiment, of which the deceased was a member, conducted the service. The remains were escorted to the Southern passenger station following the service by members of Company II, Sixtieth infantry, Private Ruskin's company. The body was last night sent to Pavo, Ga., where interment will take place today.