South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-09-13
ITALIAN REVERISTS
WERE RETURNING HOME
Efforts to Get in Connection
With Ship Are Futile.
Blaze May be on Freigh-
ter Joseph w. Fordney.
NEW YORK, Sept 13.-Fire i'm No.
hold OF SAINT Anna is under control.
Steamer is proceeding TO Azores.

NEW YORK, Sept 13.-The fate of
the Fabre liner SAINT Anna, reported
afire in the Atlantic ocean on her way
from New York to Naples, is still un-
known. After devoting several hours
today TO efforts to get in communica-
ton with her commander, Capt.
Francois Pavy, agents of the Fabre
liner admitted their failure.
The SAINT Anna carried 1887 per
sons. according to a summary issued
by the Fabre line agents at 1918 a.
m. Those on board the steamer were
listed as follows:
Passengers. 1854; first cabin, IT;
second cabin, A; steerage, 1,70S;
crew. t75.
The following message was sent to
the officers of the Fabre line in Mar
seilles by James e. Elwell and Co. the
agents in New York:
Newspapers report SAINT Anna afire
in latitude Of 1929. longitude 47.30.
Have no confirmation of this from the
CAPTAIN. Hope this is baseleSs
The 1903 steerage passengers were
mostly Italian reservists who came
from many cities of the United States
and Canada. Those from the eastern
sections were booked from New York,
Brooklyn, Boston. Springfield, Mass.
New Haven, Conn, Hartford. Conn,
Baltimore. Philadelphia Toronto and
Montreal. Others came freTn The west
ern cities Of Portland, Butte, Seattle,
Los Angeles, Cleveland. St. Louis and
San Francisco. Some were booked at
New Orleans and Galveston.
Might BE An Error.
As the hours passed without any d.
rect message from Capt. Pavy hope
grew at the offices of Elwell and Co.
that an error might have been made
in reporting the SAINT Anna as the ship
on fire. David II. T. Jones, a mem ber
of the firm, said:
1--WE think that the fire is on the
freighter Joseph w. Fordney, bound
for Boston from Halifax We would
have heard direct from the command
er of the SAINT Anna if fire had
threatened the ship. because of the
mum Der of passengers on board.
"The Joseph w. Fordney was on fire
several days ago and this fire may
have broken out again. There may
have been a confusion in names to
cause the SAINT Anna report"
NEW YORK. Sept. 13.-Inquiries
were made at the offices Of the Fabre
line today for information as TO the
liner SAINT Anna, reported afire sew
eral hundred miles from Halifax. The
officials, however, were unable TO give
the information sought in the early
forenoon, but said that they hoped to
receive a message from capt. FRANCOIS
Pavy within a few hours.
The SAINT Anna sailed from here on
the morning of Sept. s. She had been
scheduled to leave on the afternoon
of Sept. :. but its departure was de-
layed by search for a bomb reported /
to have been smuggled on board. The |
search was without result.
A theory that the fire on the SAINT |
Anna might have been caused by a |
spy was preached by David H. F. |
Jones. a member of the firm which /
acts as the Fabre line agents today.
The liner carried about 100 passen- !
gers, in addition to more than 1000 |
Italian reservists when il left here. /
The following list of first cabin paSsen- /
gers was issued today:
Miss Martha Landry, New York /
city; Mrs. Allen Wallace, New York |
city; Sister Benamina, Ferrero, Rus |
sia: Mrs. A Leland. Miss G. Leland. |
Miss Bertha Crocker, Lake Placid. y. |
y; Mrs. +. LaughtOn. Lake Placid. y. |
y; Mrs. J. F. Putnam. Miss Doanda |
Putnam. six years old; Miss NJ. Barni- |
corn, New York: Nine Eleanora /
Doremus Smith. Mrs. F. Feller II. G. /
Beal, Mrs. II. G. Beall. c. A. Stewart |
Edwin A. McGrath.