The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-02-27
News is Confirmed.

News is ConHTWeo.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.-The state
department today received cable
from Consul Frost at Queenstown,
confirming officially in almost every
detail press dispatches regarding the
unwarned torpedoing OF the great
Cunarder Laconfa.
Frost's message said two torpedoes
struck the liner and said Mrs. ana
Miss Hoy. both Americans, were
buried at sea.
Frost's cable under Queenstown
date, $3.50 a. m. today reads:
deaths of Mrs. and Miss Hoy, as
reported, positively confirmed. Cedr1c
b. Ivatt, New York, probably Ameri-
can. is apparently lost. Among AM
orleans saved are the following: ne
gro fireman and seaman Douglas Ad-
ans, Newport News; BENJAMIN Park
er 33 West 69th street, New YORK;
Louis Darnell, sos Perry Street, Balti-
more; Percy Masse Burg, 10 South
Nineteenth street, Newport News; Ed
ward Smith, S3 South Manchester
street, New York; Henry Young, $50
Park Road. New York; Barney Rhet-
ter, 264 West 61st street, New York;
John Williams, address unknown;
William Winnie or Wing, sos North
Bethel street. Philadelphia; Henry
Smith, 126 Trap street. Indianapolis;
Joseph Lewis, 63 Williams street, Buff
falo; Dan Israel, $50 Olive street, Sa-
vanah; Isaac Bowman, $50 olive street
Savannah; John Joneson. $50 Park
Road, New York: Joseph Aumter, 90
Neeton, and Calhoun street, Charles
ton; fifteen In all.
Total survivors landed here, 261;
landed at Bantry, IA.
Total on board. 294.
Missing, Is, OF which five drowned
and eight, including Hoy ladies, died
OF exposure and were buried at sea.
There are six hospital cases. one
believed grave.
"F,rst torpedo struck abaft engine
Steamer going II to Is knots. Engines
stopped and ship turned. listing &c
tstarpoard so that most boats got on
that side.
Twenty minutes later when mos,
beats were cleared submarine fired
second torpedo, striking engine PORT
side
ship sank In. about As minutes from
first torpedo"
A previous cablegram dated Ills
ip. m. last night told Of the reported
deaths of the Hoys and mentioned the
following Americans saved:
Floyd P. Gibbons. Chicago Tribune;
Mrs. F. E. Harris, wife Of Colonel Har.
ris, United States army. Fort Dupont;
Arthur T. kirby, upper New York
state and Father Waring, st. Joseph 8
seminary. Baltimore.
The dispatch continued:
"Laconia torpedoed without warning.
1880. 25th: $50 west Fastnet. Over
cast breeze; heavy swells: not break
ing. Fair breeze.
Tacoma carried ~ gun invisible
at night. Second torpedo fired twenty
minutes after FIRST.
Thirteen boats away, OF which
number eight, In which were Hoy
ladies was lost.
Wireless had been sent out. Boats
picked up by admiralty patrol at 4
| 2. m, 26th.
Cargo cotton foodstuffs and non
explosive munitions. Apparently
eight deaths out of 335 on board; $50
crew: Is passengers including many
women and children"
Some of the facts and figures in
this cable were corrected by the last
cable received. quoted above.
Six Americans.
NEW YORK, Feb. 27.-Six Ameri
cans of the twenty Americans listed in
tie crew OF the Laconia lost their
lives when the big Cunarder was sunk
/ Sunday. according to the best figures
available today.
The Cunard line list named twenty
American seamen and trimmers sign
ed when the ship left this port and
the company said one or two others