Evening star., 1917-12-09
Lieut.. Commander BagIey
Among Rescued, Admiral
Sims Wires Navy Dept.
SECRETARY DANIELS HOPES
MORE WERE PICKED UP
Patrol Boats Without Wireless May
Have Rescued Crew, Navy Head
Insists-Proud of Record.


ley and Lieut.. Norman Scott were
among the 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 last night by Vice Admiral Sims.
These two officers, two warrant Of
ficers and two enlisted men were named
in the admirars dispatch as survivors
in addition to the thirty-seven previ-
ously reported saved.
1t is now established that the five line
officers on the destroyer were saved.
Gunner Harry R. Hood and sixty-three
men are missing.
Other Survivors Reported.
The other four survivors reported be-
sides Commander Bagley and Lieut..
Scott were:
Chief Boatswain's Mate Clarence Nc
Bride. Wife, Florence Mcbride. SYRIA
cuse. n. Y.
Coxswain Zen Nunnery. Father, Fred
A. Nunnery. Edgemoor, S. c.
CHIEF Electrician Lawrence G. Kelly.
Next OF Kin not given.
Fireman Joseph Korzeniecky. Mother,
Anna Korzeniecky, Suvive, Russia.
Admiral Sims report said that Com
mander Bagley and the five other men
saved with him got away in motor
boat and were picked up and landed,
uninjured. at the Scilly Islands.
Largest Of Type.
The Jacob Jones. one of the largest and
newest American submarine chasers of
her type operating in the Atlantic, was
the first American warship to fall victim
to German submarine, but was the sec
ond American destroyer to be lost in for
Is4n NAteFB The Chauncey saak With her
commander Lieut. Commander Walter E.
Heuos two oShef ofiicers ana efgfteen en-
listed men. after being cut in two by the
transport Rose early on the morning Of
Admiral Sims terse message reporting
the loss Of the Jacob Jones did not state
how the attack was made. 1t is known.
duty between 400 and 500 miles Off shore
What vessels accompanied her was not
revealed. but Admiral Sims reports show
that one vessel rescued thirty men and
another seven. They sent this informa-
ton by radio and 1t was Immediately
Transmitted to Washington.
Secretary Holds Hope.
Secretary Daniels stoutly held to his
hopes that other patrol craft, possibly
without wireless equipment, had res
cued more of the destroyer's company
Mr.. Daniels showed plainly the strain of
his personal anxiety. as well as that
over the greatest loss to the Navy thus
far in the war. Commander Bagley's
mother has lived for several years at
the Secretary's home. With her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Daniels, she was stunned by
the news of the disaster. Another of
her sons, Ensign Worth Bagley, was the
only American naval officer killed in
the war with Spain. He. too. died on a
destroyer. being killed by a shell aboard
the Winslow in the attack on Cardenas,
Cuba. in April, 1898.
Clifford Vernon De Forest, chief radio
1t was torpedoed, was stationed at
Radio, Va. for two and a half years
before he left this country last May
for foreign service.
His wife now resides here at 46 U
street northwest. Mr.. De Forest has
served for ten and half years in the
Navy. He was born in Peabody. Kan.
and his last enlistment was from Chi
cago.
Navy officers and officials took pride
in the fact that the Jacob Jones and
her crew had written new honors into
Navy records before the vessel fell vic
tim to an enemy torpedo. In October
the Jones went gallantly to the rescue
of the British converted cruiser Drama,
accompanied by another American de-
stroyer when the former +. & o. liner
was torpedoed. They attacked and put
the submarine out OF commission and
then when the cruiser began to settle.
transferred all on board to their own
decks without accident.
Saved 3O5 Britons.
The Jones carried 305 British seamen
to safety. letter from the command
er of the Drama to the senior American