The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1917-12-19
Secretary Daniels Briefly
Announces Disaster in
Home Waters.
COMMANDER rs SAVED
Lieut.. A. f. Montgomery
and Four of His Men
Picked Up.
HIT MONDAY AFTERNOON
Vessel Was Sister Ship Of
Fl. Lost OFF Honolulu
With 26 Lives.
COMMANDER rs SAVED
HIT MONDAY AFTERNOON

special Despatch to TuE SuN
wAsHiNGToS, Dee IS. - Announce
ment was made by the Navy Depart
ment to-nigh. of the loss Of nineteen
lives on the submarine FL. which was
rammed and sunk by the F-3 In Atneri-
can waters yesterday. The accident oc-
CURED during a dense fog. and It v
considered certain that all OF the miss
Ing have been drowned.
The F3 managed to rescue Ave az
the crew, which included Lieut.. \. 4.
Montgomery. commander Of the lost Sub.
marine. His mother, Mrs. Julia Mont-
gomery Pratt. lives 81 Fort II. u.
Wright New York.
1t IS believed that the two undersea
fighters were on a practice cruise but
because OF the rigid censorship rules no
definite details concerning the disaster
can be obtained. II is known. however.
that the navy officials themselves are
ignorant a; present OF the eXac. cause
of the tragedy.
The announcement Of the acciden,
came from Secretary Daniels in a brief
statement which gave only few details
ard contained a list OF the missing and
the saved.
II Is understood that the Navy De.
partNent will at once ondcavor to at
tempt to raise the sunkcn submarine un-
less it is found that she is in water too
deep fo.' diving operations.
Survivors other than Lieut.. MontgoY,l.
cry are:
J. NJ Schm;ssauteY. uach.u.s. Mils
City, Tenn.
Henry L. Brown. gunners na.c. Ma
con, Ga.
Joseph Y. Burns. chic" runcrs mate,
San Pedro. Cal.
John J. Stewart, ships COOS. IIuIca.
$. n
, Names "f IN Drowned Mon.
! The list Of those los, was announce
BY the Navy Depar,'nen as follows.
/ John Il, Belt, sea man. Silsbee. Tex.
Frank Bernard, machtnist's mate, Oan-
| laHd. Cal.
! William !, Corsou, chief clcctrici,
. Long Beach. cal
James 'ioonan. chief gunner's mate
Lima. Ohio
Simon Greenberg. electrician, first
class, Philadelphia
9 Dudley Slough. chic, sunncrs mat.
I Vallejo Cal
Charles +. Vincent. electrician, EN-.
| ter. Cal
Thomas 4. Walsh, macninists mate.
| iiiiiy aii. WASH.
ciydc w. Wyatt, naachirists mate.
I } cli-Ce, al.
! Edward +, HAL, machin;s, mate
, West Seattle, Wash
| Fay T.. Scott, electrician. Vallejo, ca
Albert =. Smith, machinlsts mate
MERGED, Cal.
Guy r. stewart, chief nachini.-s
mate, Los Angeles
Lyman r Lovely, mach!nists mat.
! Denver. Col
! Ralph L. Mcclure. electrician, Detroj;
Duncan y. McRae, electrician, Biai,
Wash.
John r. Messanse, chic, machini,>
mate. Philadelphia.
Grover e Metz, ,rachinist's ,a,
San Francisco
| William l.. Cartright seaman. Fresh.
Cal
American Ind-r~a Trsaedie.,
On October IL, 1912, the FL brol.
from her nooriugs IN a heavy sea
Fort Watsorvi,lc. Cal. The little sea
tighter crashed into 4 pier and ther
dr.fted out to sea. gradually filing with
water and drowning two sailors who had
been sleeping on board
The creates. American subr,a-,-.,.
tragedy came on March 2S, 1918. whs,
the F-t failed to come to the rIrrac,
during mannuvres on Honolulu \ Lieu
tenant and twenty-five sailors were
drowned. and only a fen OF the bodic-
were recovered.
Tho F-4 was one OF the iates, p,o5oI A..
Of American submarines, and cost $500.
goo. she vas a trifc over Is. feet long
lG feet 70 inches deep and Is feet 2
inches beam. She was designed for 3.
cruising radius OF ZOO miles. and had
been tested suhmcrged Tor t~cnty-'our
hours
On the morning ot the day she dts
rnI gl,. i.fs