The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-12-10

survivors of the destroyed Jacob
Jones, torpedoed and sunk by Ger
man submarine Thursday afternoon
The death toll stands at 65 officers
and men.
Washington, Dec 10.--Further re-
ports from Vice-Admiral Sims TO
Washington yesterday began to un-
fold the story OF the torpedoing OF
the destroyer jacob Jones, but did not
lesson the toll of lives lost with the
ship. Only A of 10 or more Off
GERS and men aboard are known to
have survived including one uniden-
tilted man picked up and carried off
by the submarine that struck the
blow.
Yesterdays reports added TO the
list of dead Ensign Stanton #. Kalk,
a young officer. whose name did not
appear on the first roster of the ships
company. He died of exposure. The
dispatches gave no further details of
the escape OF Lieut-Comdr Bagley
and the other survivors, but they
contained the names OF II of the res
cued in addition to those ennouneed
Saturday night Secretary Daniels
issued this statement:
Additional information received
from Admiral Sims today reveals
the fact that. the Jacob Jones was
torpedoed at 4l2 p. m. on December
g. She began to settle aft and final
~ sank at 4.29. The submarine was
not seen until some time after the
ship sank. The submarine then pick
ed aups,ene.s survivor Identity
is not known, The destroyer. was
notAso rar rom the, European coast
as was indicated By the FIRST dis
: patches.
{ Gunner Harry r. Hood was killed
by the explosion OF the torpedo. next
to kin (mother), Bell Hood resides
at 81 Penn avenue, Atlanta,S Ga En-
sign s. +. Kalk died later of expos
ure Ensign Kalk's name was not
in the roster of officers published yes
terday. His next of kin is his
mother, Mrs. Flora s. Kalk. 127
North Forty-second street, Omaha,
Neb.
Twenty additional names of
survivors have been received, bring
ing the total number saved up to "A,
inclusive of the man taken prisoner
by the submarine"
Officials at Washington entertain
little hope that more survivors will
be found alive. The bitter cold which
probably was the cause of Ensign
Kalk's death makes it improbable
that others who may have escaped
and floated about on RATS or wreck
age through the night could have sur
ylyed much exposure.
Every element worked against the
men of the destroyer. The report in
oicates that the craft stumbled into
the path of the submarine by unlucky
chance and that the torpedo went
home in such a vital spot, that the
vessel was sinking even as the flare
of the explosion died out. Night was
at hand There was no time to make
provision against the cold and the
sea as the crew leaped to the life
RATS. Many probably had died with
Gunner Hood in the explosion or the
steam bursts that undoubtedly fol
lowed
The U-boat commander made sure
before he exposed his craft that the
destroyer had gone down. He took no
chances of last shot from her guns
which might send him and his vessel
also to their reckoning. Probably the
single man saved by the submarine
was taken aboard because the sub
marine officer desired information as
to the identity of the vessel he had
sunk.
The vicinity OF the tragedy was
not a safe place for the U-boat The
Germans could not know what rescu-
ing vessels might be speeding up in
answer to radio call from the
stricken craft, They would come Gag
er for vengeance and the fact that
the Jacob Jones was sunk closer IN
shore than the 400 to 500 miles i'll
dicated in first dispatches from Ad-
miral Sims added to the probability
OF nearby assistance.
Secretary Daniels was at the navy
department yesterday and personally
reviewed the statements issued be-
fore thy were made public. He
showed plainly the relief that had
come with word that his brother-in-
law, Lieut-Comdr Bagley. was among
the saved, but he evidently was deep
ly moved by this greatest loss the
navy has suffered 30 far in the war.
The three additional names of en-
listed men Of the Jones crew includ