The Sentinel=record., 1917-12-09

Washington, Dec S.-Lieutenant Commander Worth 5aaley and Lieut. Noman Scott were among the surVi- vors rescued after the sinking of the American destroyer Jacob Jones by a German submarine in the war zone Thursday night. The navy department was so advised late tonight by Ad. miraI Sims.
 These two officers, two warrant of ficers and two enlisted men were named in the vice admlral's dispatch as survivors, in addition to the thir- ty-seven previously reported saved This leaves one line officer and sixty eight men missing.
 Vice Admiral Sims report says that Commander BaeIey and the five other men saved with him got away in . motor boat and were picked up anc landed dninJured at the Sciily islands
 One officer and sixty eight men were believed tonight to have gone down with the American destroyer Jacob Jones, torpedoed and sunk in the war zone by a German submarine at 8 o'clock last Thursday night
 Vice Admiral Sims up to a late hour had been able to supply q meager detail in reply to urgent messages from Secretary Daniels, whose broth erin law, Lieut. Commander David w. Bagley, commanded the lost yes sel and reported among the missing. Three officers and thirty four mon were picked up by other vessels from life rafts to which they clung, but the names of only ten of these had been transmitted 10 Washington
 The Jacob Jones, one Of the largest and newest American submarine chasers of her type operating fin the Atlantic, was the first American war ship to fall victim of q erman sub marine but was the second Ameri can destroyer to be lost in. foreign waters. The Chauncey sank with her commander, Lieut. Commander Wal ter Reno, two other officers and eighteen enlisted men, after being cut :n two by the transport Rose early on the morning of November 20.
 Admiral Sims terse message re- porting the loss of the Jacob Jones did not state how the attack was made It is known, however that Che Jones was on patrol duty between 400 and 800 miles off shore What vessels accompanied her was not re- cealed. but Admiral Sims report showed that one vessel rescued thirty men and another seven. They sent this infovInation by radio and it was immediately transmitted to Washing ton.
 Secretary Daniels stoutly held tc his hopes that othev patrol craft, pos sibely without wireless equipment, had rescued more of the destroyer's com pany. Mir 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 com mander Bagleys mother has lived tol several years at the secreary's home With her daughter. Mrs Daniels, she was stunned by the news of the dis aster. Another of her sons, Ensign Worth Bagley. was the only Ameriar naval officer killed in tae war will Spain. He, too died on destroyer being killed by a shell aboard the Winslow in the attack on eardenas Cuba, in April, 1898.
 Navy officers and officials tool cride in the fact that the Jones ant hsr crew had written new honor' into navy records before the yesse fen victim to an enemy torpedo II Oc .a1ber the Jones went gallantly t the rescue of the British converted crufa CT Ora Ma, accompanied by an other American destroyer, when th' former P. and o. Liner was torpedoed They attacked and put the submarin