Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-02-27
Other Americans Reported
Lost Were Eight Negro
Members Of Crew.
MOST ALL ARE SAVED
Consul Front Says 281 of 294
Aboard Survive-Are
Landed Safely.
RILLETIN.


sui Frost M Queenstown reports
that an American. Thomas CASEY.
cOi0red. member 81 the Laconia'~
crew, was among the lost. tie
was the only American member Of
the crew That persisted.
London. Feb. -. H;lO a. M
4 Queenstown dispatch to the
Daily Vail says that IL Is certain
that Mrs. Mary Hoy and her
daughter. Miss Elizabeth Hoy.
American passengers on the la
cOnia. have lost their lives.
Eight American negroes. menu
bers OF the Lac0nia crew. died Of
exposure. according 10 "a Central
News dispatch from Queenstown.
United States Consul Frost at
Queenstown has telegraphed the
American embassy here that Mrs Hoy
and her daughter died Of exposure and
that their bodies were buried a. sea.
Consul Frost's message read
Mrs Mary Hoy and Mas Elizabeth
Hoy. passengers on the LacOnia, died
from exposure. Their bodies were
buried at sea-"
Mrs Hoys husband. Dr. Albert n.
Hoy. who is a Civil war veteran, and
her son Austin Y Hoy reside in Lon
don The latter called at the embassy
this morning and received a cops Of
the message from Conaul Frost
AS far as the embassy knows these
twO were the only Americans lost on
the Laconia The embassy's list Of
American passenger survivors is as
follows.
IT, r. Gibbons. Chicago Tribune.
Mrs. t. p. Harris, wife OF Colonel
Harris y S. Az a. a. Kirby. New
York. and Rev. Joseph W8reing. Bal
timore.
2sl Of 394 saved.
a later telegram from Consul Frost
gave the total number 81 persons
landed from the Lac0uia as PSI OUT
OF 294 on board OF the 13 lost five
were drowned and eight died from
exposure and were buried az sea. Six
persons are in hospitals AZ Queens
town. the telegram said Their condi-
ton is not serious
Frost Reports 10 Washington.
Washington, Feb b. The following
dispatch from Consul Frost ar Queens
town dated at 1I:l5 o'clock last night,
was received today al the state de-
partment
Two American ladies believed dead
from exposure and bodies lost at sea
from Lac0nia namely Mrs Mary n.
Hoy and Miss Elizabeth Hoy. OF Chi
caEo Four Americans saved r. b..
Gibbons. Chicago Tribune. Mrs +. =.
Harris wife OF Colonel Harris q g.
A.. Fort Du Point Arthur r. Kirby.
upper New York state, and Father
Waroing OF ST. Joseph's seminary, Bal
tlmore.
Tacoma torpedoed without warn
Ing 10 $3.50 p- m. Feb 20. $50 miles west
of Fastnct Overcast. heavy swells
not breaking, fair breeze.
Two Torpcdocs Used.
"Laconia carried A. gun Invisible
al night Second torpedo 20 minutes
after first Thirteen boats got away
OF which No with HOY ladies WIS
lost Wireless had been sent out
Boats picked mp admiralty patrol 4
p. Ill., Feb 26. Cargo cotton. food
stuns and non-eNplosive munitions,
Apparently eight deaths ont OF a35 on
board Two hundred sixty crew aud
rs passenger including many women
and children.
ship sank ia about forty-hve min
utes from time of first torpedo Had
fred six rockets which were seen by
admiralty patrol Wireless also used
up 10 last moment Boats scattered
two or three miles IN swells " feet
high Burned flares and were picked
up seriatim between aud a. m.
Feb. &C."
Deaths Confirmed.
A second dispatch from Consul
Frost timed $3.50 O'Clock this morning,
says.
Deaths Mrs. and Miss Hoy as re-
ported now positively confirmed. Ced-
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