The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-11-09
j. s. PATROL BOAT
IS TORPEDOED; q
OF CREW MISSING
Converted Yacht AIcedo Sunk in
the War Zone.
OFFICER AND 20 MEN LOST
Vessel Goes Down Within Four MIN
utes After Being Attacked-Was
One of the Most Palatial
Vessels AfIoat.

Washington, Nov. IAN American
patrol vessel has been sunk in the dan
ger zone with the loss of one ofhcer
and twenty men.
The navy department announced
that the converted yacht AlcedO was
torpedoed at 80 a. M. November D.
The official announcement reads:
cone officer and twenty men are
missing. The ship sank within four
minutes after she was struck. Several
vessels were searching for possible
survivors at the time the report was
made. The AlcedO carried seven OIL
GERS and 50 men,"
The AlcedO was one of the largest
and most palatial private yachts atfOat.
She was built in 1895 at Glasgow for
Baron ROthschild of Trieste, Austria,
at cost of $400,000 but was pur-
chased by George W. Childs Drexel of
Philadelphia.
The yacht was 275 feet over all
with a graceful clipped bow and over
hanging stern. Normally the AlcedO
required crew of 46 men.
Mr.. and Mrs. DreXel have taken the
AlcedO into all of the seven seas. The
last long cruise they made aboard her
began in December, 1913, and ended
in June, 1914. This included visits to
Russian, Turkish, Grecian and north
ern African ports.
The missing are:
John T. Melvin, Lieutenant Ct. Co. !;
father, Bishop Stewart Melvin, Church
street, Selma, Ala. E. r. GOzzett, sea-
man, second class; mother, Mrs. A. G.
GOzzett, 100 Vandeventer avenue, AS
tOria, l.. 1. James J. Cleary, seaman,
second class; mother, AIbertina
Cleary, % Green Ridge avenue, White
Plains, n. Y. r. Wesche, seaman, sec
Ond class; mother, Mrs. E. Wesche,
1912 Jefferson avenue, Brooklyn, n. Y.
X. w. Riker, seaman, second class :;
mother Mrs. Harriet III. Riker, SIS
Franklin avenue, Brooklyn, n. Y. w.
r. HOller, seaman, second class moth
er, Mrs. X. HOller, 740 Bedford avenue
Richmond Hill, n. Y. J. w. Brunk-
hardt, seaman, second class; mother
Mrs. E. .Brunkhardt, 314 VERIFIED
street, Brooklyn, n Y. Luther O. Wea-
yer, seaman; father, e. w. Weaver, %
Jefferson averrue, Brooklyn, n. Y. John
Winnie, Jr, seaman; wife. Mrs. john
J. Whine, 534 West One Hundred and
TWenty-fOurth street, New York city.
e. Harrison, mess attendant; uncle,
Henry Pool, Tyler, Ala. f. w. Fin
gerling, fireman, second class; mother
Mrs. c.. Temburin, $50 Pacific avenue,
Jersey City, n. ]. Allen T. Edwards,
seaman, second class; mother, Lydia
M. Edwards, Jackson, n. c.. G. f..
Gaus, seaman, second class; mother,
Mary Gaus. So LOngfellOw avenue, ia
maica, l.. /. V. X. Harrington, seaman,
second class; mother, Mrs. Maud Har-
ringt0n, Ashland, Okla. w. U. Surratt,
d. Witt, Norfolk, w. Va. j. TOWle,
seaman, second class; mother, Mrs.
Mary DerwalI, 1853 Union Hill street,
jamaica, n. Y. J. r. Daniel, seaman,
second class; father, J. A. Daniel OAR
lingtOn, S. c. NJ. A. PaccianO, boiler
maker: mother Mrs. Teresa Pacciano,
BOG Sguicrs avenue EndicOtt, n. Y.
Frank W. Higgins, yeOman, second
class, L. S. n. reserve; mother, Ber-
tina A. Higgins, 9S7 Richmond turnpike,
Staten Island, n. Y. Robert McCray,
negro, seaman, second class, U. S. n.
reserve; father, Capus McCray, care
Harry Brown, Navy Yard, Charleston,
S. C. w W. SmOck, seaman, second
class; father, d. r. Smock, 400 South
East Fifth street, Des MOines, la.
Beyond the bare announcement that
the Alced0 had been sunk by sub
marine with the loss of probably 20
lives, the navy department was with
out further information.