The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-09-10
Funeral Held At Naval Station,
Then Skeletons Are Put
Aboard Supply
ALL OF OFFICIAL LIFE
PRESENT AT SERVICES
Navy and Army Heads, Governor
And Mayor and Aides
Are Present

covered Of the bodies of the crew OF
the submarine "a, were shipped to
San Francisco in the United States
ship Supply yesterday afternoon. -Four
contained the four bodies that were
identified, and they will be shipped to
the next Of kin. The others will 90, TO
Arlington National cemetery at Wash
ington.
The -four identified dead were:
Ivan L. Mahan, machinist s mate
married; wife, Margaret c. Mahan.
Charles II. Wells, machinist's mate;
sister, Elizabeth NJ. Wells, 522 West
Twenty-second street, Norfolk, Vii.
ginia, next of kin.
Frank N. Herzog, electrician; father.
Nephi Herzog, 545 South Tenth East
street, SaF Lake City; next of kin.
George H. Ashcroft, gunner's mate
mother, Mary f. Ashcroft, l51l New.
ton street, Los Angeles, next of kin.
Majority Not Identified
Since the majority of the hodies
could not be identified, all that could
he done was to bury them together.
This had been expected, but it had
been thought that burial would De
here until orders came from Che navy
department to send the bodies to Ari.
'ngton. where many of the nation 3
dead lie.
The funeral at the naval station Ncs.
terday afternoon began at two clock
With a service read by Chaplain Viii
| liam A. Aiken of the First Infantry
Schofeld Barracks. Then came music
followed by taps by the bugier. The
eight collins, draped with American
flags and covered with flowers, lay in
front T. the Offices of the naval sta
ton. Besides the band, furnished by
order of Maj Gen. W. H. Carter, com
handing the Hawaiian Department
United States Army, there were battal
'ons from the Coast Artillery and thu
infantry present. ~.
| Major General Carter headed his staf
md other army officers, Rear Admira
| clifford J. Boush headed the navy off
ers, virtually all of whom we're pres
emit, from Pearl Harbor as well as Hon5
'ulu; Governor Pinkham representa-,
| he Territory, and was accompanied b,
Ills aide. Mai. J. D. DouGherty, n. q
T., and Col. Samuel I. Johnson, adult
mt general. and Mayor Lane and Su
1ervisor Hollinger the citv.
Many Pallbearers Required
| After the services, the eight coffin
we're taken to the Supply, pallbearer
icing as follows:
Mahan s cofin-C. f. REYNOLDS. I
Ioonan, T. NJ. O 'Brien, I. L. McCau!ej
'. f. Jacobs, c. Parkin.
| Ashcroft 5 coffin-F. L. Meyer, ]. {
Redman, r. f. Lewis, J. f. Robine, I
Slough. z, r, Nickerson.
Wells coffin-E. Smith, A. T. Andel
son. T. Mailman, L. G. La Ferte, VI. I
McCrary, o. f. BarOwsiSl.
Herzog's coffin-G. B. Evans, II. Z
L. Tucker, B. Mcmillan, F. r. WIN
]. Smolik, G. II. Thinker.
Unidentified, first coffin-A. Fl. No
'ein, B. s. Snead, II. T. Renders, ".
Garner, R. w. E. Hiestand, X.
Brown.
Unidentified, second cofIln-L.
Webb, w. D. Feeley, H. NJ. Ongge
} Tr., c. H. Smith, w. H. Thomas, J.
Bardwell.
Unidentified, third cofin-P. '
Reeves, w. f. Phillips, F. B. Dunwe
9. D. Wells, A. l.. Foreman, P. A. Nc
sang.
. |. Unidentified, fourth eotfu--H.
Haustein, l.. II. Rasser, w. }. Ycage
R. Murphy, T. w. Hardisty, L.
Smith.
: After all bones recovered had he'
4 assorted and assembled in tue best IN
, ner possible, three skeletons remn'n'
!ost, but no skeleton was conulet
= only six skulls, with fragments If OF
p ers, having been discovered. Four
: these skulls were those u the TO
/ identified dead. Portions of the skcN
tons of the others were put in E
=, four collins, and the men who died
, gether will lie together.
, Death Certificates Filed
q Another chapter in connection wi
{ the loss of the submarine F4 and t
I death of its officers and men, on Mar
J, 25 last, was closed yesterday morni
l. in the Office of the registrar general
+, vital statistics Of the territorial bOol
= of health, when DR.. William Seams
+ United States naval surgeon, filed t
=. death certificates of the twenty o
+ victims.
!. The certificates give the place
+ death of the victims as "off Honolr
lharbor" and the death "on or abo
March 20, 1915" The cause of dea
i is given as submersion of submari
IS "a" and the disposition of the bod
II ns "shipped to San Francisco, Septe
: ber ., 1915"
v OF the twenty one men whose liN
went out with the sinking Of the 81
n marine, six were married and fife
d were single Nineteen were Americ
IS born, one was born in Sweden and t
:. pace of birth of one other is unknOv
n The oldest Of the dead men was thir
:. three years, nine months and ten da
and the youngest twenty two yea
II one month and fourteen days.
D. What Certificates Say
ic The death certificates give the {
It lowing information in regard to
ID victims:
N Alfred Louis Eide, lieutenant, in 20
10 mand of the "a, married, born in Re
Nevada, July 4, 1887, twenty seN