Omaha daily bee., 1917-02-28

Pray, one Of his statesmen that DICK
Payne on the way to the salesroom in
the morning and Payne expressed a
desire to buy the first car at the
Omaha Auto Show for his father
George H. Payne. Pray immediately
got his name on the dotted line and
secured deposit.
Doug Bowie OF the Apperson Motor
company registered with Clarke T.:
Powell at Ills a. m. an order and
check for an Apperson Chummy road
ster.
c. w. Francis Of the c. w. Francis
Auto company registered with {. q.
Powell at POI p. m, an order and
check for a Maxwell, sold to the
Lenagh Brothers Coal company.
Chef Bowers Of the Nebraska Buick
Auto company rung up sale on a
Buick D-45 and registered with {. u
Powell at 2:l3 p. M, with w. J. Bur-
CESS as buyer.
w. T. Hause of the w. T. Hause
Auto company put Peerless sale
across at 2:l5 p. m. and got the check
Now--dear readers, how would you
like to be dropped into a bunch Of
| friends who are all good fellows and
have to decide this? With no rules
to be governed by, "by advice of the
counsel the automobile editor re-
mains neutral.
| une; Mrs. F. E. Harris, wife OF Colo
mel Harris, U. S. A., Fort Du Pont
Arthur +. Kirby, upper New Yorl
state, and Father Wareing OF St. 10
seph seminary, Baltimore.
'Laconia torpedoed without warn
ing 1890 p m. February rs, $50 mile
west OF Fastnet. Sky overcast, heavy
swells not breaking, fair breeze.
Tacoma carried AZ gun, invisibl,
at night. Second torpedo twent,
minutes after first. Thirteen boat
got away, of which No. 5, with Ho,
women, was lost. Wireless had beef
sent out. Boats picked up admiralt,
patrol a a. M, February 26. Cargo
cotton, foodstuffs and non-explosiv,
munitions. Apparently eight death
out OF 1876 on board. Two hundre,
and sixty crew and seventy-hve pas
sengers, including many women ant
children.
ship sank in about forty-hve min
utes from time of first torpedo. Hal
fired six rockets, which were seen b,
admiralty patrol. Wireless also use,
up to last minute. Boats scattere,
two or three miles in swells twelv
feet high. Burned flares and wer
picked up seriatim between 3 and 4 Of
February e."
A second dispatch from Consu
Frost, timed $50 o'clock this morn
ing, says:
Three Americans Killed. 4
Deaths of Mrs. and Miss Hoy, a
reported, now positively confirmed
Cedric B. Ivatt of New York, prob
ably American, is apparently los
Add to Americans saved the followin
negro fremen and seamen:
Douglas Adams, Newport News.
Benjamin Carter. 80 West Sixty mint
street. Now York.
Lewis Darnell, sos Perry street. Bait
more.
Xarey Masseburg. 10 South Ninateent
street. Newport News.
| 'N hhiih' Wv SSash NnahShestVf nSiO'
New York.
Harry Young. $50 Park Road, New Yori
Barney Rhettor, 26t West ty-firt
street, New York.
John Williams address unknown.
William Wynno or Wing, 30S North Beth,
street, Baltimore.
Henry Smith, i2s Pratt street. Indiar
apolis. tHtf
Joseph Lewis, ca Williams street Buffal
Dan Israel, $50 Oliver street. Savanna
Ga. s.#f
Isaac Boman. same address.
John Joneson. Is Park Road. New Yorl
Joseph Sumter. So Melton and Calhou
street, Charlestown.
Fifteen in all; total survivors lane
ed here, 267; landed at Bantry, foui
teen; total on board; 2o4; MISSING
thirteen, of whom five drowned an
eight, including Hoy women, died {
exposure and buried at sea. Six ho
, pital cases, none believed grave. Fir
| torpedo struck abaft engine. Steam,
going seventeen to eighteen knot
Engine stopped and ship turned, lis
ing to starboard, so that most boa
, got off that side. Twenty minut,
later, when most boats were clea
, submarine fired second torpedo, stri
: ing engine, port side.
! Four Passengers Injured.
Queenstown, Feb. 2.--Correct r
turns on those missing from Il
2 sunken Cunarder Laconia are not y
i obtainable, although the Cunard sta
is working on the list of crew al
passengers. Four passengers a
among those sent to hospitals. The
: injuries are slight. Among the TO
I is DR.. Hawke, resident of San Fra
X cisco, who said he was playing gan
e OF bridge in the ships surgec
room, when he heard an awful era
d and guessed that the ship had be,
i attacked by submarine. He sa
5, that the first torpedo struck the lin
h aft on the starboard side and ever
S one made for the life preservers. r
y passengers had previously been !