Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-27

port without further counselling with th'
President
Presumably the Lacoria clear cut act
had a bearing on this phase OF the hght
Representatives Ragsdale, South caro-
lima, and Huddleston. Alabama, were among
the Democrats who baked at gVihs
blanket authority to the President.
The state Department today received 2
cable from Consul Frost. at Queenstown
confirming officially in almost every detal
press dispatches regarding the unwarneo
torpedong of the Laconla
Consul Frosts message confirmed the
fact that two torpedoes struck the liner
and that Mrs. Mary and Miss Elizabeth
Hoy, both Americans residing in Chlcdgo
we're buried at sea
The cable, under Queenstown date, $3.50
a. m. today reads
Deaths Of Mrs and Miss Hoy, as
reported, are positively confirmed. te-
drc g. Ivatt, New York, probably
American. is apparently lost. Among
Americans saved are the following
Negro fremen and seamen: Douglas
Adams. Newport News Benjamin Par
ker. 33 West Sixty-ninth street. New
York; Louis Darnell, sos Perry street,
Baltimore Percy Masseburg, 10 South
Nineteenth street. Newport News; Ed
ward Smith, S3 South Manchester
street New York Henry Young, lSO
264 West Sixty-tirst street, New YORK
John williams. address unknown VIII
liam Wynne or Wing, sos North Bethel
street. 60 Philadelphia; Henry smith
1875 Trapp street, indianapolis; Joseph
Lewis, 63 williams street, Buttalo;
Dan Israel 500 Olive street, Savannah;
Isaac Bowman. $50 olive street, Sa-
vannah: John johnson, $50 Park row,
New York Joseph Sumpter, Meeting
and Calhoun street, Charleston; fifteen
in all
Total survivors landed here, 267;
landed at Bantry, II, Total on board
294
Missing. thirteen. Of whom five were
drowned and eight, including HOY
ladies'. died of exposure and were
buried at sea,
There are six hospital cases, one be-
leved grave.
First torpedo struck abaft engine.
Steamship going seventeen or eighteen
knots Engines stopped and ship turned
listing to starboard so that most boats
got off that side,
Twenty minutes later. when most
boats were clear, submarine nred sec
ond torpedo. striking engine port side
ship sank in forty-hve minutes from
first torpedo.
Had fired six rockets when seen by
Admiralty patrol Wireless also used
up to last moment Boats scattered
| two or three miles in swels twelve feet
| high Burned flares and picked up
seriatum between and a m, 26th
| instant.
The New York office Of the Cunard ltr
| reports unofcailY that six negro seamel
all Americans were among the lost maF
| ing the total reported American loss mn
4 previous cablsgram, dated ll:l5 D. =
last night told OF the reported death
the Hoys and mentioned tine followiI
| Americans saved Floyd r. Gibbons, on
cago Tribune; Mrs. +. T. Harris, wife
| Colonel Harris, United states army Fo
| du Pont Arthur r. Kirby, upper New Hoi
State; Father Waring, ST loseph's Sen
| mary, Baltimore
The dispatch continued:
"I.aconia torpedoed without warntn
1890 D. M, 25th | so west Fastnet. Owe
cast breeze. Heavy swells, not breakin
Fair breeze.
"Laconia carried Al gun invisible
night Second torpedo fired twenty minut
after first.
Thirteen boats got away, of which nur
her eight, in which were Hoy ladies' W
lost . ,o,
picked up by Admiralty control at p. =
Goth.
Cargo. cotton. foodstuffs and nome
plosive munitions Apparently eight deaf
out of 335 on board 260 crew, seventy-h
passengers, including many women
children"