Evening star., 1915-11-11
TWenty-Seven Americans Be-
Iieved Lost, According to
Ambassador Page.
149 ARE STILL MISSING
is THE LATEST REPORT
No Tension Felt in Official Circles
Consuls Ordered to Give .Citi-
zens All Possible Help.

Secretary Lansing announced
today that the State Department
is making every effort to gather
information and details on the
sinking of the Italian liner An
conaI
Statements will be taken from
survivors, wherever they may
land, and the United States will
gather all possible information be-
fore taking the matter up with
any foreign government.
The department does not know
the source Of information con-
tanned in consular dispatches and
dispatches from Ambassador Page
at Rome, and is yet unable to de-
termine how many United States
citizens were lost.
Twenty-seven Americans Lost.
Dispatches from Bizerta, Rome
and Naples all contain fragments
of information, but the depart
ment is entirely without official
advices as to the circumstances
of the sinking or the nationality
of the submarine which shelled
and torpedoed the vessel.
About twenty-seven Americans
are believed to have been lost, ac-
cording to a cable to the depart
ment from Ambassador Page.
The ambassador said the prob
able victims Of the tragedy are
Alexander Patattivo, his wife and
four children, of New York, and
Mrs. Frances Mascolo Lamura
and about twenty unnamed third
class passengers.
Mrs. Cecil L. Griel first re-
ported Grey) was named as the
one known American survivor
among the passengers.
Missing Now Number 149.
The department received a cablegram
from American Consul White, at Naples,
saying that the Societa Italia says 347
passengers and crew of the Ancona are
reported as saved out of 1876. This
leaves I49 to be accounted for.
Consul Whites cabegram, dated at
Naples last night and received here
early this morning, follows:
The Societa Italia now report that
the following American citizens were
abroad the steamship Anconda:
First cabin Mrs. Cecile l.. Griel.
"Steerage, Alessandro Patattivo. wife
and four children; Mrs. francesca
Mascolo Lamura and minor child, and
Pasquale Laurine, and that 347 pas
sengers and crew were reported as
saved /out of 496. The steamship COM
pany are confident that more will be re-
ported as saved"
Inquiry for Washingtonians.
Italians residing in Washington had
received no information today concern
ing the identity of the Mrs. Sassoli of
Washington, who is reported to have
been on the liner. Likewise, no informa-
ton was Forthcoming as to the identity of
the Mr. and Mrs. Edward Geiger. also
said to be bound for this city, who were
reported to have been on the Ancona.
The only Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Geiger
in the city directory reside at 1237
Perry street northeast. which is in
Brookland. Inquiries at that address
today elected the fact that Mr. and
Mrs. Geiger. living at that address, are
in the city and that they have no rela-
tives who have been in Italy. 1t is
thought here that these names might
have been placed in the Washington.
D. c., list by mistake for Washington,
Pa. where, it is said, that number OF
persons of that name reside.
Officials were greatly concerned to-
day because Americans have probably
been victims of the disaster. There is,
however, an absence Of the tension
which followed the destruction of the
Lusitania and the Arabic, because of
the belief that the Ancona was at
tempting to escape when torpedoed.