Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-05-10

| lOst IN Vne submarine ATTACK oH 'i'S ''''N'
| only eight are reported saved. The body
OF but one of the missing, Stepher
Crompton, has been recovered.
Hope for the unreported Is giving place
to an increasing despair as the cables
from England bring only dismal news tc
the friends and relatives of the victims
The scant information which has reached
this city has failed to add another Phila'
delphla name to the list Of rescued, and
the brief and tragic cablegram Hope Ia
abandoned" has definitely closed all ave.
nues of hopeful expectation to many rela-
tives who sent frantic messages OF in-
qulry to the American Embassy In Lon
don
The following is the latest cabled list
Of the survivors and missing:
KNOWN SAVED.
SAMUEL NJ. KNoX. 3lO West Upsal
street Germantown. president OF the
New York Shipbulding Company.
DEAN w. HODGES. years old 2o26
West Lehlgh avenue, son Of William 5.
Hodges.
Mrs. STANLEY r. B. LINES, Of Toronto,
Canada, formerly Miss Ethel Lanping.
of Ridley Park. Her husband was also
rescued
HERBERT LIGHT, an actor, Of Broad
way and Chestnut streets Camden, n. j.
JOHN CATHERwOOD, West Chester.
Mrs. JOHN CATHERwoOD, West Ches-
ter.
JOHN ALLEN, booked from Philadel-
unknown.
THOMAS Y. WILLIAMS, address not
known.
BODIES RECOVERED.
STEPHEN CROMPTON, IA years old. son
of Paul Crompton. st. Martins and
Hartwell lanes. Chestnut Hill.
BELIEVED LOST.
HARRY j. KEsER. OF Jenkntown. vice
president OF the Philadelphia National
Bank.
MRS. HARRY j. NESER.
WILLIAM s. HODGES, 1926 West Lehigh
avenue, Paris representative OF the
Baldwin Locomotive Works.
MRS. WILLIAM S. HODGES.
MASTER w S. HODGES, Jr., years
old
CHARLES Il. ROBINSON, London repre-
sentative of the Walkovcr Shoe Com
many. lived at 500 Tulpehocken street,
Germantown.
MRS. CHARLES f. ROBINSON.
PAUL CROMPToN. ST. Martins and
Hartwell lanes. Chestnut HILL vice
president of the surpass Leather Com
pnny, 9th and Westmoreland streets.
MRS. PAUL CROMPTON.
ALBERT CROMPTON. Il years old.
CATHERINE CROMPTON. II years old.
RoMELLY CRoMPON. o years old.
JOHN CROMPTON, 8 years old.
PETER CRoMPTON, year old.
MISS DOROTHY ALLEN, 1905 oxford
road, Frankford
JAMES b. MITCHELL, $3.50 GlensIde
avenue
GEORGE NIcoLL, 225 North Creighton
street.
DAVID TODD. $3.50 Chester avenue, a
florist
e. BOOTH JONES, 1856 East Price street,
Germantown. proprietor of an antique
store at 5727 Germantown avenue.
MRS. Il. BOOTH JONES.
PERCIVAL JONES. years old.
AILsA JONES. years old,
FRANK MURRAY, employed near 9th
and Walnut streets. home near Rogers
ford.
FRANK B. TESSON, shoe representative
OF the John Wanamaker stores. now of
New York, and until six years ago
resident of Philadelphia, at Cos South
4Sth street.
MRS. FRANK B. TESSON.
PATRICK COLLINS, fireman on the
LustanIa. whose mother lives on Glen
wood avenue.
MRS. EMMA WYLGE.
MISS ANNIE DICK.
MISS ISABELLA HUNT, Haverford,
JAMES RICHARDSON.
near Race.
JAMES BAKER.
Four more Phladelphians have been
added to the list OF those known to have
perished on the torpedoed steamer. n
mistake In the passenger list of the
Cunard Line not revealed until yesterday
disclosed tho fact that II. Booth Jones,
his wife and two children were on the
liner. Jones was a wealthy antique dealer
and resided with DR.. p. A. Mccarthy, of
l9 East Price street Germantown. He
cane to Philadelphia in October and
opened an antique shop at b727 German
town avenue. The two children, Percival,
years old and Ailsa, . years old, at
tended the Friends School, Green anN
School lanes, Germantown.
CRoMPToN FAMILY LOST.
It Is now believed certain that Paul
Crompton, his wife and six children, of
st. Martins and Hartwell lanes. Chest
nut Hill. were lost, Queenstown reports
the finding of the body of Hugh Cromp-
ton. II years old, son OF the president OF
the Booth Line" There was no Hugh
Crompton on the passenger list and 1t
Is believed by friends of the family that
the body is that Of Stephen CTompton,
eldest son of Paul Crompton, who was
the American representative OF the Booth
Steamship Company.
A brief and tragic cablegFam: Have
given up all hope" was received by Hol-
lister Struges, of Willow Grove, a busl-
ness partner OF Crompton In the Surpass
Leather Company, in reply to his request
TO the London house, OF which the Sur
pass Leather Company is the American
branch, to send information OF the
Cromptons The cable was dated Satur-
day night. and has caused the friends OF
the Philadelphia family to despair OF their
rescue.
1t has been learned that two former
Philadelphians were passengers on tho
liner and are believed 10 have been among
the lost They are Mr., and Mrs, Frank
B. lesson, who lived at 646 South 18th
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