Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-12-09
OFFICERS SAVED;
64 MEN BELIEVED
TO HAVE PER|SHED
Commander Bagley, Broth
er-in-Law of Secretary
Daniels, Rescued.
ONLY MEAGER DETAILS
RECEIVED FROM SIMS
Thirty-Seven Picked Up From
| Life Rats, and Others Get
Away in Motor Boat.
ToRPEDOED WHILE ON PATRou
New Honors Written Into Navy Rec.
ords by tho Jacob Jones Be-
fore She Goes Down.
ToRPEDoED WHILE ON PATRou
TBy Associated Pre.s1

WASHINGTON, December s.-Lieu.
tenant Commander Dqvid Worth Bag
ley and Lieutenant Norman Scott were
among the survivors rescued after the
sinking Of the American destroyer
Jacob Jones by German submarine
in the war zone on Thursday night.
The Navy Department was SO advised
late tonight by Vice-Admiral Sims.
These two officers, two warrant of
ticers and two enlisted men were
named in the admirars dispatch as sur
rivors, in addition to the thirty-seven
previously reported saved. It Is now
established that the five line officers
on the destroyer were rescued. Gunner
Harry r. Hood and sXty-three mcn
are missing.
Admiral Sims's report said that Com
mander Bagley and the FIVE other men
saved with him got away in a motor
boat and were picked up and landed
uninjured at the Scilly Islands.
Nice-Admral Sims up to late hour
had been able to supply only meager
details in reply to urgent messages
from Secretary Daniels, whose brother
t in-law, Lieutenant-Command David
Worth Bagley, commanded the lost ves-
sci. and was at first reported among the
missing. Three officers and thirty-four
men were picked up by other vessels
from life RATS, to which they clung.
but the names of only ten OF these
had been transmitted to Washingto
The Jacob Jones, one OF the largest
and newest American destroyers oper-
ating in the Atlantic. was the first
American warship to fall victim to a
German submarine, but was the sec
ond American destroyer to be lost in
foreign waters. Tho Chauncey sank
with her commander, Licutenant-Com-
mander Walter T.. Reno, two other
officers and eighteen enlisted men. after
being cut in two by the transport Rose
carly on the morning of November 90.
Admiral SimsS message reporting the
loss OF the Jacob Jones did not state
how the attack was made. 1t is known.
however, the Jones was on patrol duty
between 400 and 500 miles off shore
What vessels accompanied her was not
I revealed. but Admiral Sims's report
showed that one vessel rescued thirty
men and another seven. They sent this
Information by radio. and it was i'm
mediatciy transmitted to Washington.
DANIELS HOLDS TO HOPE
THAT OTHERS ARE SAVED
Secretary Daniels stoutly held to his
. hopS lHal otittE ptlIol craft, POSSIBLY
without wireless equipment, had res
cued more of the destroyers 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 Bag
/ lcy's mother has lived for several years
NJ the sccretarys home. With her
daughter. Mrs. Daniels, she was stunned
by the first news of the disaster An
other OF her sons. Ensign Worth Bag
ley. was the only American naval officer
killed in the war with Spain. He died
on destroyer. being Killed by a she'll
aboard the Winsow in the attack on
Cardcnas, Cuba. in April. 1898.
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 to the rescue OF the
British converted cruiser Drama, ac-
ccmpanicd by another American de-
stroycr. when the former Pcninsular
and Oriental liner was torpcdoed.
They attacked and put the submarine
out OF commission and then when ths
cruiser began 10 settle transferred all
on board TO their own decks without
2ccider..
The Jones carried 800 British seamen
to safety. \ letter from the COM
mander OF the Drama 10 the senior
American officer of the two destroycrs
gave high praise TO the courage and
Skill of the Americans.
Lacking details of the action In
which the Jones was lost. officers as
sumcd that the destroyer either
stumbled upon submarine and WAS
struck by a lucky shot or was sur
prised while on patrol duty. AS the
watch maintained by American de-
stroyer crews is notably keen, the last
explanation seemed Improbable
APPARENTLY THE JONES
GOES DOWN ALMOST At ONCE
Apparently the Jones went down
almost at once This was taken to
mean that the torpedo had scored q
fair hit amid*hips. possibly tearing the
in hr,,