Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-03-06
TWO AMERICANS DIE
cHlcAGOAN AND DAUGHTER PER-
lSH WHEN U-BoAT SINKS
LINER LAcoNIA.
ATTACKED DURING THE NIGHT
Mrs. Mary Hoy and Miss Elizabeth Hoy
Are Victims of kaiser's Submarine
War-267 Survivors Are Landed at
Queenstown,

Queenstown
Queenstown, Feb. 28.-Mrs. Mary
Hoy and Miss Elizabeth Hoy, wife and
daughter of DR.. Albert H. Hoy, for
merly of Chicago but now of London.
are missing and are believed to have
been lost when the Cunard liner La
COMA was torpedoed and sunk late
Sunday night off the coast of Ireland.
A dispatch received in this city at
late hour says that Mrs. and Miss Hoy,
who were coming back to England
after visit to their old home in Chi
cago, were drowned by the swamping
Of boat.
OF the POI passengers and members
Of the crew on board the vessel, sew
en- besides Mrs. and Miss Hoy, are
reported missing, but it is not known
definitely whether any of these Is an
American.
A steamer bringing 267 survivors
arrived here late Monday night. They
were picked up In eight boats.
Among the American passengers not
brought here by this boat are Mrs. and
Miss Hoy, and there is grave reason
to believe that they have been
drowned.
Fifteen survivors were landed at a
lonely spot at Bantry Head, and prep
arations are being made here for the
reception of seven hospital cases.
Among the American survivors is
Rev. Father Wareing of Baltimore.
He was in thoroughly exhausted con-
| dition when brought ashore.
Rev. Father Wall, another survivor,
said his experience was terrible one
for an invalid such as he was. He
spent part of the time rowing the
boat and part of the time attending to
his fellow survivors,.
The Laconia was torpedoed in COM
paratively calm weather. She first was
struck near the stern, and later sec
ond torpedo was sent into her and she
| took a violent list to the starboard.
With considerable difficulty the life
boats were gotten away, but no panic
whatever took place among the pas
sengers, and the action of the officers
and c$ew was admirable.
The Laconia was one Of the largest
vessels of the Cunard fleet and the
largest thus far sunk since the new
German submarine warfare was COM
menced. She registered 1900 tons
gross and was 600 feet long, II feet
beam and 40 feet deep. She was built
In 1911.
Wesley Frost, American consul at
Queenstown, telegraphed the American
embassy here:
"Cunarder Laconia torpedoed. Two
hundred and seventy-eight survivors
landed. Details lacking, but known
some missing, one dead"
1t is stated authenticity that the
Laconia was torpedoed without warn
ing.
The Central News says it is feared
the large amount of mail which the La
coma was bringing from America has
been lost.
Washington, Feb 2S.-In the absence
of official information, expected hourly,
from Consul Frost, no official would
venture an opinion on the outcome OF
the sinking beyond saying that it would
gravely complicate the already critical
situation with Germany.
Whether it may prove to be the
"overt act" will depend entirely on the
actual facts, expected soon.
New York, Feb. 28.-Twenty-six
Americans, six of whom were cabin
passengers, and twenty paid members
of the crew, were on board the Cunard
liner Laconia, from New York Febru-
airy Is for Liverpool, with rs passen-
gers and crew of ZIG, when the YES
sci was sunk by German submarine
Sunday night.
The names of the American passen-
gers are as follows:
Floyd P. Gibbons of the Chicago
Tribune.
Mrs. F. e. Harris, wife of Lieut.. Col.
Frank E. Harris, United States Coast
artillery. corps, stationed at Fort Du-
pont, near Philadelphia.
Arthur T. Kirby, cambridge, N. Y.
Mrs. Mary E. Hoy. Chicago.
Miss Elizabeth Hoy, Chicago.
Rev. James Wareing of Baltimore.
The Americans among the crew
were signed here to take the places
of Others whose terms of service had
expired or who had failed to appear
when the ship was ready to sail.
No steerage passengers were on
board the ship, and those not Ameri-
can were mostly English or Canadians.
The Laeonia carried a mixed cargo
of about 5000 tons, which included
LOCO bars of silver and quantity of
specie, and was valued roughly at
S2,O00,000