Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-03-02
TWO AMERICANS DIE.
cHIcAGoAN AND DAUGHTER PER-
IsH WHEN U-5oAT SINKS
LINER LACoNIA.
ATTACKED DURING THE NIGHT
Mrs. Mary Hoy and Miss Elizabeth Hoy
Are Victims of kaiser's Submarine
Wsr--267 Survivors Are Landed at
Queenstown.

Queenstown, Feb. oS--Mrs. Mary
Hoy and Miss Elizabeth Hoy, wife and
daught& of DR. Albert H. Hoy, for
| merry Of Chicago but now of London,
! are missing and are believed. 10 have
been lost when the Cunard liner La
| conia was torpedoed and sunk late
| Sunday night off the coast of Ireland.
A dispatch received in this city AT II,
| late hour says that Mrs. and Miss Hoy,
| who were coming back 10 England
after visit TO their old home in Chi
cago. were drowned by the swampingl
Of boat
Of the 29l passengers and members
OF the crew on board the vessel, sew
en- besides Mrs. and Mss Hoy. are
reported missing, hut II is not known
definitely whether any of these is an
American
A steamer bringing 267 survivors,
arrived here late Monday night They
were picked up In eight boats.
Among the American passengers mott
brought here by this boat are Mrs. sndi
Miss Hoy. and there is grave reason
10 believe that they have beenI
drowned.
Fifteen survivors were landed at a
lonely spot ut Bantry Head. and prep
aratiOnS are being made here for thel
reception OF seven hospital cases.
Among the American survivors isl
Rev. Father Wareiug OF Baltimore.
He WAS IN q thoroughly exhausted con-
ditiou yhap hrnuOhf ashnro
Rev. Father Wall another SURVIVOR
said his experience was terrible Onel
for an invalid such as he was Hel
| spent part OF the time rowing thei
| boat and part OF The tiuN- attending tol
his fellow survivors
The l.yeJusa was tugppd0ed IN eogsi-
| parattvety calm weather, She hrst WAS
struck near the stern. and later Sec
oud torpedo was sent iu'9 her and shes
took violent list 10 the starboard
With considerable difficulty The life
boats were gotten away. hut no panic
whatever took place among the pas
sengers. and the action of the officers
and crew WIS admirable.
The I4acOnia was one of The iargeSh
vessels of the Cunard Rect and the
largest thus far sunk since the new
German submarine warfare was com
menced She registered 1909 tons
gross and was 900 feet long. n feet
beam and 40 feet deep. She was built
In 1911
Wesley Frost, American consul ab
Queen 81 own telegraphed the American
embassy here
"Cunarder Laconia torpedOed. Two
hundred and seventy-eight survivors
landed Details lacking, but known
some missing. one dead
II * stated automatically that the
I.aconla was tOrpedoed without warn
ing
The Central News ssgS II is feared
the large amount Of msll which the La
COMA was bringing irony America has
been lost
Washington. Feb. 2S.In the absence
Of official information. expected hourly.
from Consul Frost no official would
venture an opinion on the outcome OF
the sinking beyond saying that II would
gravely complicate the already critical
situation with Germany.
Whether it may prove 10 be the
overt acl" will depend entirely on the
actual facts expected soon
New York. Feb. 2S.-Twenty six
Americans six of whom We're cabin
passengers. and twenty paid members
of the crew. were on board the Cunard
liner Laconia. from New York Febru-
airy IS for Liverpool with 10 passen-
gers and II crew Of 2l6 when the ves-
sci was sunk by German submarine
Sunday night
The names of the American passen-
gers are ~ follows:
Floyd +. Gibbons of the Chicago
Tribune.
Mrs. f. r. Harris wife OF Lieut. Col.
Frank T. Harris United States Coast
artillery corps. stationed at Fort Du4
pont. near Philadelphia.
Arthur f. Kirby. Bainbridge. n 7.
Mrs. Mary f. Hoy. Chicago.
Miss Elizabeth Hoy, Chicago
Rev. James Wareing of Baltimore
The Americans among the crew
were signed here to take the places
OF others whose terms of service had
expired or who had failed to appear
when the ship was ready 10 sail
No sreerage passengers were on
board the ship. and those not Amerl-
can were mostly English or Canadians.
The LaConia carried q mixed cargo,
Of about 5000 tons, which includea
1,OuO bars of silver and a quantity of
specie, and was valued roughly al
! $1,000 600.