The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-12-09
BULLETIN MIDNIGHT.


Washington. Dec. 8.-Lieutenant Com
nander Worth Baglely and Lieut.. Nor.
man Scott were among the survivors
rescued after the sinking Of the Ameri-
can destroyer Jacob Jones by German
submarine In the war zone Thursday
night. The navy department was so
advised late tonight in the report from
Admiral Sims.
These officers, two warrant officers
and two enlisted men were named In
the admiral's dispatch as survivors in
addition to the thirty-seven previously
reported saved.
Ii Is now established that the five line
officers on the destroyer were rescued.
Gunner Harry Hood and 63 men are
missing.
The other survivors are:
Chief Boatswain's Mate Clarence Nc.
Bride. wife, Florence Mcbride, Syracuse.
n. Y.
Coxswain Ben Nunnery. father, Fred
A. Nunnery, Edgemoor. $. c.
Chief Electrician Lawrence G. Kelly.
next OF kin not given.
Fireman JOseph korzenieclsy, mother,
Anna korzniecky. Survive. Russia.
Sims report said that Commander
Bagley and the five other men saved
with him got away i'm a motor boat and
were picked up and landed uninjured
at the Scilly Islands.
Washington. Dec. S.-The officers of
the American destroyer David Jones
torpedoed Thursday We're:
Lieutenant Commander ID. w Bag.
ley, mother Mrs. A. w. Bagley. Wash.
ington, ID. c.
Lieut.. j. n. Richards, wife. Dorothy
G. Richards. Washington. ID. C.
Lieut. Norman Scott, Robert F.
Scott, father, ST. Louis, No. IA
Ensign n. n. Gates, Gertrude +.
Gates. aunt Bay City AIicn.
Assistant Surgeon L. L. Adamkiewicz.
victoria Adamkiewicz, mother nil
waukee. Wisconsin
Gunner Harry r. Hood. next of kin.
Belle Hood, mother. Ashville. n. c.
The Jacob Jones, the largest and
newest submarine chaser of her type
operating in the Atlantic, was the first
German submarine. but was the second
American destroyer to be lost in Euro.
pean waters. The Chauncey sank with
her commander. Lieut.. Commander
Walter Erno, two Of her officers and
eighteen enlisted men after being cut
in two by the transport Rose early on
the morning of November 20.
Manner of Attack il Unknown
Admiral Sims terse message report
ing the loss of the Jacob Jones did not
state how the attack was made. 1t is
known. however. that the Jones was on
patrol duty between 400 and 500 miles
off shore. What vessels accompanied
her was not revealed. but Admiral
Sims report showed that one vessel
rescued thirty men and another seven.
They got this information by radio and
ii was Immediately transmitted to
Washington
Secretary Daniels stoutly held to his
hopes that other patrol cra-i, 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 this. the greatest loss to the navy
thus far in the war.
Mother is Stunned by News.
lllpNIti has llNtA
for several years at the secretary's
home. With her daughter, Mrs Dan
iels, 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 shell aboard the Wins
low in the American attack on Car
deans. Cuba, in April 1898.
Navy officers and officials took
pride in the fact that the 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 calamity to the rescue
of the British converted cruiser Drama,
accompanied by another American de-
stroyer when the former Peninsular
and Orient liner was torpedoed. They
attacked and put the submarine out of
and then when. the cruiser
began to settle. transferred all on board
without accident
Saved 2O5 British Seamen