Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-05-08
TITANIC LIVES
COST $l,SSl,lll
Insurance Press Gets Some
Revised Figures From
the Companies
North Dakota Man Among
Those Carrying the
Largest Amount

NEW YORK, May 8-The latest re-
orts from the life insurance companies
as to their losses by the Titanic disas-
ter are published in the current issue
of the Insurance Press. With few
exceptions all the figures are taken d.
rect from the reports to the Press.
The total loss on the part of those
companies which have made up their
figures comes to $1,88l,lll. The
Northwestern Mutual Life heads the
list with 100000. Next comes the
Mutual life with $246,000, the Equitable
Life with $175,000, the Penn Mutual,
$4,000; the Travellers, 100000; the
Pacific Mutual 100000; the Mutual
Benefit, $94 800; the Metropolitan Life,
$4,000; the Connecticut Mutual, $780,
600; the Massachusetts, Mutual Life
$4,000; the Prudential, $4,000; the
New York Life, 1851; the Germania
Life, 100000; the State Mutual OF
Worcester, $30,O00; the Provident Life
and Trust, $4,000; the Aetna Life,
$4,000, and so on down to the Domln-
ion Life of Waterloo, which, like most
of the Canadian companies, lost but a
few thousands.
The largest insurance carried by a
single passenger aboard the Titanic
was on the life of Herbert F. Chaffee,
of North Dakota. His life was insured
for $l46,750. The next largest was
that of John B. Thayer, for $4,000.
MIR. Thayer also carried $4,000 worth
of accident insurance.
Some of the larger life policies AMI
the names of those carrying them fol-
low:
Edgar J. Meyer, New York, $4,000.
George D. Wick, Youngstown, Ohio,
SAL, 500.
Benjamin Guggenheim, New York,
$4,000.
Charles NJ. Hays, $25,00O.
William B. Silvey, Duluth, $22,500.
Walter. NJ. Clark, Los Angeles, CAL,
$4,000.
Isidor Straus, $4,000.
Walter c. Porter, Worcester, Mass,
$4,000.
Albert A. Stewart, $4,000.
John B. Cummings, New YORK, $780,
900:
Walter D. Douglas, Cedar Rapids,
Iowa, $4,000.
Arthur w. Newell, $4,000.
William T. Stead, London, $lO,0M.
Emil Taussig, New York, $4,000.
Henry B. Harris, New York, S5.448.
Major Butt, $1,000.
The Metropolitan Life Insurance
Company paid the first claim OF the
life of policyholder lost On the Ii
tanic on the life of Henry Sutehali, Jr..
of Buffalo, who carried $1,000 life and
an industrial policy of $l25. Within
twelve hours after the Carpathia dock
ed this claim was presented and paid
at once
The latest reports from the accident
insurance companies show that these
companies lost a total of 81, So, 900 on
the Titanic. The Insurance Press
gives reports from thirteen companies.
The Travellers reports a loss of ST.
5000, the Aetna Life (accident) $780,
600, and the Standard Accident, $780,
600.
The biggest accident insurance policy
was carried by Emil Brandeis of
Omaha, Neb., $175,O00.
Some of the others are Charles NJ.
Hays, $4,000; Frank NJ. Warren, $780,
900: Stephen w. Blackwell, Trenton, N.
J., $4,000, and Alexander T. Compton,
Jr.. Lakewood, $4,000.
Two policies of $4,000 each in the
Preferred Accident Company became
$4,000 each under the triple indemnity
provision, while another policy in the
same company for $4,000 was raised
to $4,000 by double indemnity and ac-
cumulations.
Mrs. John B. Thayer has received
from the Travellers Insurance Company