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Show DR. C. E. BRAIN of Salt Lake,- , captain in the army medical ' ; corps, the news ol" whose rescuo from ! the torpedoed transport Feraic whs ' ' received by friends last night. ; ,1 t f " - - ' I' ' i silt urn IS PERSIC VICTIM Dr. C. E. Brain Is Reported to Have Been' Passenger on Torpedoed Liner. Capta:ii C. E. Brain. Sf Luke physician, formerly residing ai the Shu-brick Shu-brick apartments, was among the survivors sur-vivors from the British liner . Persic, which was torpedoed Friday with 2S'0 American troops aboard, according to information received here last night. Captain Brain, who was a well-known orthopedic surgeon of this city at the time the United States entered the war. was ajnong the first of the Salt Lake doctors to volunteer his services t Use government. He was commissioned a I first lieutenant in the medical corps and sent to Fort Klley, Kan., where he was assigned to duty at the base hospital. After . Lieutenant Brain had been on duty there for a time he was made an instructor in his lino of surgery- a-nd spent' some time giving instruction at Fort Riley and other camps to newly commissioned doctors. Just recently he was ordered abroad, it is stated, to take up further work in his special line, but it was not known that ho had sailed until news of his rescue from the torpedoed ship was received re-ceived last night. |