New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1917-11-22
CHAUNCEY'S dead
REPORTED BY SIMS
Lieut. Commander Reno, Lieut..
Wedderbrun and Others Lost

Washington, NoN 22.-The Navy
Department yesterday made public
list Of twenty-one men who were
lost in the sinking Of the American
destroyer Chauncey in a collision in
the war zone Monday morning.
Admiral Sims, who cabled the
names yesterday. added no details to
his message of Tuesday, and the de-
partment is still without news regard
Ing the manner in which seventy en-
listed men were rescued and how the
accident occurred. The name Of the
vessel with which tho destroyer col
lided is not known here.
The Chauncey carried ninety-one
men, of whom three officers and
eighteen Of the enlisted personnel
persisted. The officers who died were
Lieutenant Commander Walter f.
Reno, the commanding officer. and his
two Junior officers, Lieutenant Charles
F. Wedderburn and Ensign Harry g.
Skinner. Jr.
Lieutenant Commander Reno's next
of kin was his wife. Betrice Reno Of
2,319 South Twenty-f1rst street, Phil
adelphia; that Of Lieutenant Wedder-
burn was his motheE Gertrude F.
Wedderburn, Of Chevy Chase, Nd,
and that of Ensign Skinner was his
mother, Mrs. Harry G. Skinner, OF
Mount Washington, Md.
Following Is a list of enlisted men
lost in the disaster:
Stanley T. Anthony. electrician,
first class. radio: mother, Florence
Johnson, Bedford, Mass.
Honore NJ. Claggett. electrician,
first class; father, Honore NJ. Claggett
Laurel, Nd.
Daniel B. Crane, machinist mate,
second class; mother, Mary H. Crane,
c,71O Augustine Court, Los Angeles,
Cal
Joseph S. Ewart, machinist mate,
first class; father, William l.. Ewart,
"a Second street, Newport, r. I.
Charles A. Goodrich, chief machin-
list mate; brother, George J. Good
rich, Oak wood. III.
Oswald J. Terkildsen, second class;
uncle. Conrad Terkildsen. 396 Sew
enth avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Nicholas H. Wagner, ship filter. first !
lass; father, Jacob Wagner; Fuller I
on, Md.
George Wornen, boilermaker:
riend, Harry c. Smith, San Fran
isco.
Algen H. Guttridge, machinist mate,
econd class: father, William H. Quit
'idge. Cullison. Kan.
Henry G.. Hannah, seaman; father, |
Burt w. Hannah, 155 Subway street, |
Buffalo. n. y
Joseph A. Heroux, third class;
mother, Emma J. Cacheller. 250 South
Soto street Los Angeles. Cal.
William H. Hampel, oiler: father,
Charles Hampel, Randville, Mich.
Ira T.. Kopp, gunner's mate, first !
class; father, Jesse F. Kapp, 1897 |
Harrison street, Davenport Iowa.
Charles A. O'Connor. chief yeoman;
sister, Margaret Tessler, los West
South Boston, Mass.
Francisco Pagtakhan, mess attend |
ant, third class: mother, Marta Dunl- !
clio, Olongapo, P. I.
John Rhinehart, chief water tender; |
friend, Mary sprague, Block Island, |
r. +.
John A. Smith, gunner's mate. first |
class; father, William Smith los West
fifth street, New York.
John Williams StrlDl1n, OlAer; Ia
Their, John Striblin. Warin& Texas.
Lieut. Commander Reno was SO
years old, and was appointed to the
Naval Academy from Missouri In
1901. He was made a lieutenant In
1910, and was appointed lieutenant
last May.
Lieutenant Wedderburn, who was
rs years old, was born in Chicago and
was appointed to Annapolis from
Maryland in 1911. He was made an
Ensign in the navy in 1918, and was
appointed lieutenant Of
the Junior grade on July /, 1917.
Ensign Skinner was a member OF
the Naval Reserve, and was born in
Baltimore in 1889. He received his
as Ensign last May.