Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-12-10
AMERICAN SEAMAN
is HELD PRISONER
ON ENEMY U-BOAT
Two Known Dead and Sixty
Five Missing From Tor
pedoed Destroyer.
NAME OF YOUNG ENSIGN
ADDED TO LIST OF VICTIMS
Dispatches Give No Further De-
Dispatches Give No Further De-
tails of Escape of Bagley
and Other Survivors.
SIMS TELLS STORY or ATTACK
l. s. War Vessel StumbIcs Into
Path OF Submarine by Tn
lucky Chance.

WASHINGTON. December s.-Two
known dead. one prisoner in the
hands OF the enemy and sixty-nvc miss
ns was tho toll OF American scamen
at latest reports tonight in the de-
struction by German submarine OF
Tho destroyer Jacob Jones.
News that one Of tho Joucss crew
had been picked up and taken prisoner
aboard the U-boat was cablcd to tho
Navy Department this afternoon by
Vice Admiral Sims. 1t is the first oc-
currcncc of the kind since war was
declared
Todays reports added to tho list OF
dead Ensign Stanton +. Kalk. a young
cflicer whose name did not appear Oh
SAC first roster OF the ships company.
died OF exposure. The dispa tchcs
q ie no further details OF the escape
s Lieutcnant-Comma BaGlcy and
H other survivors. but they contained
names OF seventeen Of the rescued.
addition TO those announced last
.sht
81 The complement OF the Jacob Jones
~ tho time OF the torpedoing was Ill.
instead OF i07. As the Navy Depart
ment first announced. it Was stated to-
day. Names Of four men. one an Off
Ger, ana three enlisted men were
caGlcd b. Admiral Sims. or the four
cne died OF exposure and three were
rescued In his report. the American
naval commander in European water.
sent the names OF ,wcnty-scven sur
"ivors. the fact OF whose rescue was
~nnounced In his dispatch OF yesterday
hU; whose identity was not disclosed
E>TInELr NEW COMPLEXION
ON CIRCUMSTANCES or ATTACK
Dispatches from Vice Admiral Sim.
to-da! put entirely new complex.
iou on the circumstances of The at
tc'. on the Jones.
Earlier reports had Indicated that
tho destroyer was torpcdoed while sew
crhl hundred miles sea and tina,
tho attack had taken place in the dim
dawn Of the early morning.
The real story was told in Admiral
Simss report this afternoon.
In the first place. the Navy Depart
'n"nt announced. on the strength Of
these dispatches that the Jones was
not 80 far from the European coast
AS was indicated in the first report"
.\San. the attack took place at 4:l2
o'clock in the afternoon, instead of IN
the early morning. Az that hour il
was well on toward darkness on the
British coast. In the North Sea the,e
are only five hours Of daylight at this
season. OF the Irish coast the day
light hours are not more than seven
so II was probably deep SIusk when
the torpedo was launched.
The submarine was NOT seen until
after the attack. Then, when i, was
plain that the destroyer was helpless
and ginkin~
10 the surface and stood Of watching.
The American seamen were hurriedly
launching their life RATS. but some OF
the men either jumped overheard or
fell into the water II was one OF
these that the C-boat, making slow
headway through the scene OF the
wreckagc. picked mp and took aboard
Later the submarine again submerged
and made off. carrying the American
sailor with her.
From reports so far there was no
conversation between the U-boat and
nc men OF the Jacob Jones
SINKS IN SEVENTEEN MINUTES
AFTER TORPEDO HITS
According 10 report the Jones was
struck abaft her enGine-room and be-
gan to settle aft Immediately. 1t was
the cnGine-room force were killed by
The torpedo's explosion. Torpedoed at
i:lo she disappeared beneath tho
waves at 4:2o, exactly seventeen min
utcs later. Admiral Sims's dispatch,
stating that the attack had not oc-
cured far out at as had pre-
>iously been reported gave relief from
rumors based on the reported unusual
uosition of the attack that U-boats
lussbiy were attempting to cross the
Atlantic to the American coast.
Il is believed probable the submarine
"h!ch destroyed tho Jones was cruising
around looking for merchantmen when
.hc stumbled across the American
patrol boat in tho dusk of carly even
imr.
Of'icias here entertain little hope
that more survivors will be found alive.
The bitter cold which probably was the
cause Of Ensign Kalk's death makes Il
i,uprobab bic that others who may have
escaped and noatcd about on RATS or
wreckage through the night could have
survived such exposure.
Every element worked against tho
men OF tho destroyer. The report indi-
Gates that tho craft stumbled into the
path OF the submarine by unlucky
Shancc, and that tho torpedo went home
in such vital spot that tho vessel
Was sinking even as the farc Of the
cxnlosion died out Night was at hand.
There was no time TO make provision
against tho cold and the sea as the
crew leapcd to tho life RATS.
"A Many probably had died with Gunner
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