Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-12-09
Destroyer One of Largest and Newest Operating in
 Theatre of War.
ARKANSAS YOUTH
 MEMBER OF CREW
Commander Bagley, Brother-in.Law of Secretary Daniels Picked up and Landed OH Scilly
 Island.


 Commander David Worth Bagley and Lieutenant Norman Scott were among survivors rescued after the sinking of the American destroyer Jacob Jones by German submarine in the war zone Thursday night. The navy department was so advised late tonight by Vice Admiral Sims. These two line officers, two warrant officers and two enlisted men were named in the admiraPs dispatch as survivors in addition to 37 previously reported safe. It is now established that the , five line officers on the destroyer were rescued.
 1 Gunner Harry R. Hood and 63 men are missing. The other four survivors reported besides Commander Bagley and Lieu tenant Scott were Chief Boatswain's Mate McBryde, Syracuse, N. Y.; Cox swain Nunnery, Edgemoor, S. C.; Chief Electrician Lawrence G. Kelly, address not given; Fireman Joseph Korzeniezky of Russia. Admiral Sims report said that Commander Bagley and the five other men with him got away na motorboat and were picked up and landed uninjured at the Scilly island.
 Washington, Dec. 8.--Tiree off cers and 73 men were believed to- night to have gone down with tho American destroyer Jacob Jones, tor pedOed and sunk in the war zone by a German submarine at o'clock Thursday night Vice Admiral Sims, up to a late hour, had been unable to supply only meagre details in re- ply to urgent messages from Secrc- | tary Daniels, whose ibrOther-in-law, Lieut.. Commander David w. Bagley, commanded the lost vessel, and was reported missing. Three officers and 34 men were picked Up by other yes 1 sels from life rafts to which they clun5, but the names of only ten had been transmitted to Washington. The Jacob Jones, one of the largest and newest American destrOyers of her type operating in the Atlantic, was the first American warship to fall victim to a German submarine. but was the second American destroy CT lost in foreign waters. The Chaun- cey sank with her commander, two other officers and IS men, after being cut in two by the transport Rose. early in the morning of November 20.
 Report Is Meager.
 Admiral Sims first message re- Iorting the loss of the Jones did not state how the attack was made. Ut is known. however, that the Jones was on duty between 400 and 800 miles off shore. What vessels accompan- jed her were not revealed, but Ad- s,n1 s,t r%< ch Ah-A vessel rescued 30 men and another seven. They sent this information by radio, and it was immediately trans l mitted to, Washington.
 | In the list of members of the crew of the Jones, not included in the ten survivors cabled by Admiral Sims, is the name of Clifton Cranford, electri. clan, whose mother. Mrs. Fannie E. Cranford. lives at Hatfield, Ark. Luck Shot or Surprise. Commander Bagley's mother has 1 lived for years at Secretary Daniels home with her daughter, Mrs. Dan iels. She was stunned by news of the | disaster. Another of her sons, Ensign ! Worth Bagley, was the only Ameri- can naval officer killed ill the war | with Spain. He, too, died on a de- | stroyer. being killed by shell aboard the Winslow in the attack on Car denas. Cuba, in April, 1898.
 Lacking details of the action in which the Jones was lost. officers as sumed that the destroyer either stumbled upon submarine and was struck by luck shot or was sur prised on patrol duty.
 | F0rethought of Many. i Survivors of the Jones undoubtedly owe their lives to the fcrethouaat of the navy department in havins pfv vided every destroyer sent abroad 1 (Continusd on pses nvell