Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1917-12-09
Second American Ship to Be
Sunk BY Enemy - Early
Dispatches Show Com
mandant Lost - No Details
Available.
Destroyer Was Accompany
ing Another Ship - No
News of This Vessel-Ad-
miraPs Report Very Short
Destroyer Had Record.
(By Review Leased Wirel

WASHINGTON, Dec. g. 2 a. M
Lieutenant Commander David Worth
Bagley and Lieut.. Norman Scott were
arcne the survivors rescued after the
sinking Of the American destroyer ia
cob Jones by German submarine in
the war zone Thursday night. The
navy department vas so advised late
last night by Vice Admiral Sims.
These two officers, two warrant Of
ficers and two enlisted men were
named in the Admirai's dispatch as
survivors in addition to the 81 pre-
viously reported saved. It IS now
established that the FIVE line officers
on the destroyer were rescued. Gun
ner Harry z. Hood and 65 ren are
missing.
The other four survivors reported
besides Commander Bagley and Lieu
tenant Scot were:
Chief Boatswain's Mate Clarence
Mcbride. Syracuse. Y Y.
Coxswain Ben Nunnery, EdgemOOr.
S. c.
Chief Electrician Lawrence G. Kel-
ly. not given
Fireman Joseph KorzenieclC. Su-
vive, Russia.
Admiral Sims report said that
Commander Bagley and the five other
men saved with him got away in a
motor boat and were picked up ard
landed uninjured at the Sicily islands.
WASHINGTON. Dec. S.-Three Of
ficers and % men were believed to-
night to have gone down with the
American destroyer Jacob Jones tor
pedOed and sunk in the war zone by a
German submarine at 5 o'clock last
Thursday night
Vice Admiral Sims up TO a late hour
had been able to supply on msagre de-
tails in reply to urgent messages from
Secretary Daniels. whose brOther-in-
law. Lieutenant OOmmander David
". Bagley. commanded the lost ves-
sci and was reported among the miss
ing. Three officers and - men were
picked up by other vessels from life
RATS to which they clung the names
of only 10 OF these having been trans
mitted to Washington.
Was Newest Type.
The Jacob Jones. one OF the largest
and newest American submarine chas-
ers OF her type operating in the Allan
tic. was the first American warship
to fall a victim to a German submarine
but was the second American destroy
er TO be lost in foreign waters The
Chauncey sank with her commander,
Lieutenant Commander Walter T.
Reno, two other officers and Is enlist
ed men after being cut in two by the
transport Rose early on the morning
of November 2Oth.
Admiral Sims terse message report
ing the loss OF the Jacob Jones did not
say how the attack was made. Il is
known, however. that the Jones was
on patrol duty between 400 and 500
miles off shore.
81 Men Accounted For.
What vessels accompanied her was
not revealed. but Admiral Sims re-
port showed that one vessel rescued
so men and another seven They sent
this information by radio and il was
Immediately transmitted 10 Washing
ton.
Secretary Daniels stOutly held to
his hopes that other patrol craft. pos
sibly without wireless equipment. had
rescued more of the destroyer's CON-
pany. Mr. Daniels showed plainly the
strain of his personal anxiety as we'll
as that over this. the greatest loss to
the navy thus far in the war
Destroyer Has Record.
Navy officers and officials took
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