Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-02-27
TWO CHICAGO LADIES
VICTIMS OF SUBSEA
Continued from Page H.

ship sank in one hour Thirteen
boats got away from the vessel.
Number eight life boat in which
the Hoy ladies were IS reported
lost.
Wireless alarms were sent out
ami the boats with the crew and
passengers on board we've picked
upi-by Admiralty vessels about
four o'clock on thee afternoon Of
the 18th The cargo was made
up of cotton, food and non ex.
plosivc munitions. Apparently
now there are eight dead of the
395 ON board. The latter was
made up Of Is passengers and the
remainder were in the crew.
A message received by the State
Department today supplementing his
report of last night American Consul
Frost at Queenstown announces that
it now is positively confirmed" that
Mrs. and Miss Hoy, of Chicago, lost
their lives when the Cunard liner La,
coma was torpedoed by a German sub
marine. He also stated that Cedric
b. Ivett. of New York, another Amer
lean probably is lost"
Consul Frost then says:
Add to Americans saved the
following: Negro fremen and
seamen Douglas Adams, Newport,
News; Benjamin Carter, New
York; Lewis Darnell. Baltimore;
Carey Mazburg, Newport News,
Edward Smith, New York; Henry
Young. New York, Barney Radt-
tor. New York; John Williams,
Address unknown; William
or Wyng, Baltimore; Henry
Smith. indianapolis Joseph Lewis,
Buffalo; Daniel Irsael Savannah;
Isaac Bowman, Same address;
John Jonson, New York: Joseph
Sumter Charleston, Is in all.
Total survivors landed 276.
Landed at Bantry, A. Total on
board 29i.
Missing l13 Of whom five drown
ed and eight including Holy la
dies died of exposure and were
buried at sea. There are six hos.
pital cases believed grave
First torpedo struck abaft
engine steamer going II to Is
knots. Engine stopped and ship
turned listing starboard so that
most boats got off that side. Tween
ty minutes later when most boats
were cleared submarine fired see
ond torpedo striking engine port
side, Ship sank in about As min
utes from first torpedo. Had fir
ed six rockets which were seen
by admiralty patrol Wireless also
used up to last moment. Boats
scattered 2 to 3 miles in swels
twelve feet high. Burned flares
and were picked up seriatum be-
tween three and four a. N. 2Gth.
Signed FROST"
Secretary of State Lansing wa,
back at his desk today, but silent OF
developments in the Laconia case
pleading that he had been unable t
go over the messages that have beer
received. He conceded, however, that
the situation Is not improved"
Secretary Lansing said that the
Austrian situation remains unchanged
and that the departments still in the
lark as to the whereabouts of the
Yarrowdalo prisoners, who have been
released, according to adyices from
Ambassador Willard at Madrid.
TWO Known Lost.
Queenstown, Iab n Ten Ameri.
can lives were lost when the Clnard
liner Laconia was sunk Of FlStnet by
a German submarine on Sunday night.
according to information secured to-
day by Wesley Frost, the American
consul here.
Mr. troSt's report stated that only
two American passengers Mrs. Mary
Hoy and Miss Elizabeth Hoy, of Chica.
60, were killed.
The other eight Americans killed
were negro seamen.
The American consul stated that his
was to the effect that
Mrs. and Miss Hoy died of exposure
in an open life boat and were not
drowned as previously reported
The bodies Of the women were bur.
led at rca, il was said
May Be covert Act"
Washington, Feb u The shining
without warning of the big Cunard lin
er Laconia was a gross invasion of
American rights, state apartment Of
officials believe. They are not prepared
to say yet, however, that the infringe
ment of the rights of the United
States, whose citizens were passer-
gers is any more fragrant than others
which have preceded il Neither are
they ready to say that the sinking was