Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-18
Two Hundred and Sixty Are
Drowned When Brindisi
Strikes Mine in Adriatic.
MISS STEFANIE HAMPLE
is BURIED IN ALBANIA
Other U. S. Citizens Aboard Ill
Fated Craft Are Safe-Dr. Ryan
Tells of Balkan Relief Needs.

\ ROME. January 1S.-Dr Edward w.
Ryan of the American Red Cross. who
arrived here yesterday after a trip in Mon
tenegro and Albania, said that go per-
sons were drowned by the sinking of
the Italian steamship Brindisi. which
struck a mine recently in the Adriatic
sea. Among those drowned was Miss
| Stefanie Hampls. American nurse.
! Miss Hample's body was buried at
San Giovanni di Medua, Albania. Dr.
Ryan said Mariana Lamo, nurse,
reached Scutari in safety. and hopes to
return to the United States. DIR. Dura
Ciuchs was landed at Scutari- Dr. Cunot
reached Brindisi and sailed for home
yesterday on the steamship Patra, from
Naples for New York. DR.. Ryan said
there were 427 Montenegrin soldiers
from the United States on the steam
ship.
| DIR. Ryan's trip, extending over
period of sixteen days, was made 1or
an investigation of conditions III mon
| tenegrin and Albanian towns on pehai1
of the American relief clearing house
of Paris.
Removal to Safety Needed.
Not food, but removal to a place of
safety, is the need of 10000 women and
children, Serbian refugees at Scutari
and other points," DIR. Ryan said.
| To remove the refugees DR.. Ryan has
arranged for the chartering of an
Italian ship. He expects to transport
these persons to Corsica, having OBJ
tanned the permission of the Italian
government.
The English Red Cross also will send
4 f.-lN; m
OF sickness among the refugees, Dr.
| Ryan said but they are finding their
position in their present quarters Is
| becoming decidedly uncomfortable.
DR. Ryan said the position of the
Serbian refugees was perilous, owing
/ to the hostility of Albanian tribes
| The American ambassador, Thomas
| n. Page is assisting DR.. Ryan in his
relief work.
Resident of New York.
NEW YORK, January 1s.-Miss Ste
FAME Hample. the nurse who was
drowned when the Italian steamship
Brindisi was sunk by mine in the
Adriatic sea, lived at 705 jackson ave-
nue., the Bronx. New York, with her
parents. She left Canada late in De-
| cember with "A Red Cross expeditioi'
| after visit here. with the exception
| of a short vacation she had been in
Europe since the war started.
DR.. Dura Gucha, who is reported safe
| in Rome dispatches, lived i'm Chicago.
| He was a member of the Canadian ex-
| petition, as was DIR. Cunot. A telegram
announcing the death of Miss Hample
was received at the Slavonic Immigrant
Society here today. Officials of the
society do not know where DR.. Cunots
home is. nor do they know Mariana
, Lamo, the other nurse reported saved
from the Brndisi.
Plea to U. S. Serbs Possible.
Miss Sybil Eden, an Englishwoman
who has been serving with the Red
Cross in Serbia. and who arrived today
on the Tuscania. said she understood
| call was soon to be issued urging the
| 200, 900 or more Serbians in this coun-
| try to join the new Serb army. Miss
Eden was at Belgrade when the retreat
began.
II saw thousands of men, women and
| children dying by the waysde during
the retreat" she said. 1T was the most
narrowing sight one could imagine.
I Suffering and priyation were all
sides But the Serbs have not given up