New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-22
Admiral Sims Gables List
of Dead on Sunken
Destroyer
Seventy of Enlisted
Personnel Are Saved
Washington Waits for De-
tailed Report on
Collision

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2l.-Lieuten-
ant Commander Walter L. Reno, the
commanding officer; his two junior Of
feers, Lieutsnant Charles F. Wedder-
burn and Ensign Harry e. Skinner, jr,
end eighteen enlisted men were lost
in the sinking Of the American torpedo
boat destroyer Chauncey in collision
in the war zone Monday morning, the
Navy Department was advised to-day
By Vice-Admiral Sims.
Lieutenant Commander Reno's next
Of kin was his wife, Beatrice Reno.
2319 South Twenty-frst Street. Phila-
delphia; that of Lieutenant Wedder-
burn was his mother. Gertrude r.
Wedderburn, Chevy Chase, Md, and
Of Ensign Skinner was his mother,
Mrs. Harry G. Skinner, Of Mount
Washington, Md.
The enlisted men lost were:
STANLEY 7. ANTHONY, electrician,
first class, radio; mother, Florence
Johnson, Bedford, Mass.
HONORE NJ. CLAGGETT, jr., cleo
trician, first class; father, Honore NJ.
Claggett, Laurel, Md.
DANIEL r. CRANE, machinist mate.
second class: mother, Mary II. Crane,
2710 Augustine Court, Los Angeles,
Cal.
JOSEPH S. EwART, machinist mate,
first class; father. William l.: Ewart,
"a Second Street, Newport, r. !.
CHARLES A. GOODRICH, chief ma
chinist mate; brother, George j. Good
rich, Oakwood, Ill.
OSWALD J. TERKILDSEN, yeoman.
second class; uncle, Conrad Terkild-
sen, 800 Seventh Avenue, Brooklyn,
n. Y.
NICHOLAS H. WAGNER, ship filter,
first class; father, Jacob Wagner, Full
GEORGE wORNELL, boilermaker;
friend. Harry c. Smith. San Francisco,
ALGEN II. GUTTRIDGE, machinist
mate. second class; father, William h.
Guttridge, Cullison, Kan.
HENRY G. HAMAN. seaman; father.
Burt W. Lyman, 155 Subway Street,
Buffalo.
JOSEPH A. HEROUX, fireman, third
class; mother, Emma j. Bachelor, 23O
South Soto Street, Los Angeles.
WILLIAM H. HAMPEL, oiler; father,
Charles Hampel. Randville, Mich.
IRA F. KOPP, gunner's mate. first
class; father, Jesse +. Kopp, 1927 Har-
rison Street, Davenport, Iowa.
CHARLES A. O'CONNOR, chief yeo-
man; sister, Margaret Tessier, los West
Broadway, South Boston, Mass.
4NTTICTn OF
tendant, third class; mother, Marta
Dunicio, Olongapo. p. !.
JOHN RHINEHART. chief water
tender; friend, Mary Sprague, Block
Island. r. /.
first class; father, William Smith, LOB
JOHN WILLIAMS STRIBLING, oiler;
father, John Stribling, Waring, Tex.
In cabling the casualty list, Admiral
Sims added no details TO his message
yesterday, which simply announced that
the destroyer had been sunk in col
lision early Monday morning. The ves-
sci carried Lightweight men besides
the three officers and seventy of the
enlisted personnel were saved.
The manner in which the rescue was
effected, the fate of the vessel with
which the destroyer collided and other
details are awaited By the Navy De-
pnrtment. officials believe that the
three officers lost their lives in an ef-
fort to save as many of the men as
was possible.
Lieutenant Commander Reno was
thirty-six years old and was appointed
TO the Naval Academy from Missouri
in 1901. He was made a lieutenant in
1910 and was appointed lieutenant COM
mander last May.
Lieutenant Wedderburn, who was
twenty-five years old. was born in Chi
cago and was appointed to Annapolis
from Maryland in 1911. He was made
an ensign in the navy In 1915 and was
temporarily appointed lieutenant Of
the junior grade on July l. 1917.
Ensign Skinner was a member of the
Naval Reserves and was born in Balti-
more in 1889. He received his appoint
ment as ensign last Nav.