Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-14

Cruz death list among the Americans to
twenty Memorial services held in New
York Saturday We're for nineteen, but
Dobson then was alive
The ship also brought the bodies of
Henry Pullian and Clarence r. Harsh
baerger. navy men. who died of wounds
received in the occupation of the Mexi-
can city.
There were on board the vessel thirty
one wounded. the remainder suffering
from disease contracted in Mexico. OF
the latter. however, many We're conva-
lescent They will be sent back to
Mexico.
Stretchers Used to Remove Injured.
Twenty eight of the men were in such
condition that stretchers We're used in
removing them from the hospital ship.
Physicians said. however. that they ex-
pected no more deaths. Charles l..
Doyle, a seaman, whose condition for a
time was precarious. was operated on by
the ships surgeons and has showed
marked Improvement. He was thrown
from his horse, which SHE'D at trolley
car
Many relatives came aboard the Solace
today. The ship docked earlier than had
been expected or there would have been
more reunions.
A number Of relatives and friends who
applied at the naval hospital for those
whom they supposed to be seriously hurt
We're directed to the ship to find them
ready to return to duty with the Solace.
The Solace will be in the navy yard
for a few days to replenish her stores
and will go to dry dock for minor repairs.
She is expected to sail for Vera Cruz
early next week. Among the injured
men in the naval hospital is Theofil v.
BiScup. boatsWainS mate. one OF the first
petty officers TO receive injuries. In all.
sixty-one We're taken to the hospital.
New England Buries Her Dead.
BOSTON, May l4-Cnder gray skies
New England today buried her dead
from Vera Cruz. The three men who
died in the service of their country
were Daniel A. Hagserty. Walter L.
Watson and Rufus E. Percy.
Haggerty was buried in Cambridge.
Watson in the little town of Eastman
on Cape Cod and Percy at Highgate.
Vt. on the Canadian border.
The widely different surroundings in
which the three men spent their youth
We're reflected in the arrangements for
their funerals Cambridge. in the CEN
ter Of New England's metropolitan dis
trct and the seat of one of the state
armories. was able to honor the body
of her son with a military ceremony In
pany of naval militia gave the only
touch of official display to the service
at Eastman where men. women and
children who live beside the sea gath
cred to pay tribute. Farmers of the
rugged north country honored the
memory of the young marine whose
bOrhood home had been in Hfghsate,
and a company of the National Guard,
with veterans of the civil and Span
ish American wars. escorted the body
on its last journey.
For the funeral OF Hasgerty there was
solemn high mass of requiem with
| military accompanments III ST pat-
i.ck's Roman catholic Church, and the
body was followed to the grave in Cam
bridge cemetery by long procession.
The town hall at Eastman was chosen
for the Watson funeral, conducted by a
I-niversalist clergyman, with burial III
the village cemetery.
The Percy funeral was held in the
Congregational Church at Ilghgate Gem
ter. with interment in liighgate ceme-
terry.
Meisenberg Buried in Chicago.
CHICAGO. MAY 14--Hundreds of sol
diers and sailors in uniform, with
bands playing. headed the funeral cor
tese which today carried to its last rest
ing place in Wadheim cemetery the
body of Samuel Meisenberg. the Chicago
marine killed at Vera Cruz.
Gov. dunno Mayor Harrison. nited
States Senators Lewis and sherman,
scores of fraternal organizations and
hundreds of citizens and pubic ofnclais
were in the procession
souad of marines from the great
lakes training school at Lake BUN IL.
fired a last salute as the body was low
cred into the grave. Early IN the day
the body was taken from the Meisen-
berg home to Anshe Kanassas Israel
Synagogue, where the funeral services
were held Gov. Dunno senators Shef-
man and Lewis. Mayor Harrison and
Judge Hugo Pam of the municipal court
made short speeches.
Thousands See Funeral in Pittsburgh
PITTsBI- RGH. Pa. May H.-Francis
Patrick De Lowry. seaman of the
T. s s New HAMPSHIRE. killed dur
ing the fishtin@ at Vera Cruz. was
TODAY given all the honor that Pitts
buryh had to give. Uncovered thousands
lined the streets as the funeral cortege.
escorted by the I'd Brigade. \. q. p.
commanded by Brig. Gen \. j. Logan
passed from St. Paul's Roman Catholic
Cathedral. where requiem high mass
had been celebrated. to St Marys GENE
terry where the body was inferred.
AS the cortege left the cathedral the
chimes in Trinity Protestant Episcopal
Church downtown pealed the noleS o.
Nearer NV God. TO Tee. and when
the body was lowered into the grave
they sounded Abide With Me In all
the public schools in the afternoon the
pupils were assembled to listen to the
reading of President Wilson's oration de-
livered at the funeral services III the
Brooklyn navy yard last Monday
Georgia Honors 17-Year-old Hero.
WILLACOOCHEE Ga, May H.-State
and nation joined with the people of
this section in honoring the memory
of Randolph Summerlin, the seventeen
year-old Georgia marine killed at Vera
Cruz who was buried here today with
military honors. Among those who
sent floral offerings was President Will
son Gov. John NJ Slaton of Georgia i
sent personal message of coincidence to
the bereaved family. The body arriv-
ed here this morning from New York and
lay in state for several hours.