The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-02-27
Dr. How GRIEF Stricken.

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/ here. despite his advanced age.
| He was formerly resident OF Cnl'
cago.
] here over the telephone, he SAID
81 am an old man-eighty-four
years OF age-and it Is terrible biow
to know my own dear wife and IN!
daughter have gone
At this juncture DR.. Hoy's voice
broke and there was silence. Eflorts
to obtain further answer from the
telephone were futile. Subsequently
one OF the servants in the Hoy home
said DR., Hoy had been overcome and
removed to his bed, i'll.
Three Dead, Nine Missing.
LONDON, Feb. 27.-The Cunard
company at one o'clock today issued
this bulletin:
"Laconia's passengers dead. 3.
Missing. 8.
Screw missing, six.
"Crew, in hospital, six"
Call II overt Act.
o LONDON, Feb. 27.-Afternoon
newspaper comment today agreed
that il the death Of Mrs. and Miss
Hoy was definitely established, the
torpedoing of the Laconia must be
construed as an "overa act" by Presi-
dent Wilson. Later consular advlces
established their loss.
Here in London the attack on the
ship-an unwarned attack, according
to unanimous opinion of survivors
was regarded as being exactly similar
to that which sent the Lusitania
down.
The Laconia sank at spot only
two hours steaming from the place
where the Lusitania was sunk with
the loss Of lis American lives.
Offered No Help
LONDON, Feb. 27.-After the La.
conia's survivors had taken to the
boats, the German submarine which
apparently sank the Cunarder, APP
preached one life boat, inquired for
the captain and asked the nature Of
the cargo. Receiving information In
reply to these queries from the Sec
ond officer OF the Laconia. the Ger
man officers remarked that British
admiralty boat would reach the sur
vivors shortly, and then departed
without offering any assistance.
American Consul Frost at Queens
town reported the incidents TO Am
bassador Page today.
Official Figures.
LONDON, Feb. 27.-Of6ciel figures
OF the Laconia disaster today showed: :
| Total passengers and crew, 294.
| Survivors landed at Queenstown
{2s7.
Survivors landed at Bantry, IA.
! Drowned, 5.
Died of exposure and buried at
sea, 8.
In hospitals, 6.
The figures were furnished by the
American consul at Queenstown and
sent to Ambassador Page today.
Consul Frost reported that the La
coma sank in one hour after the tor
pedoing.
Two Torpedoes.
LONDON, Feb. 27.--Americap Con-
sui Frost at Queenstown officially re-
ported to the American embassy To-
day that the Laconia vas a with
out warning. and by ex ,lcsirn OF
two torpedoes.
The second torpedo was fired
twenty minutes after the first had
struck. In this interval Of twenty
minutes the first thirteen life boats
were launched from the Laconia.
The weather was cloudy and there
was a heavy swell on the ocean
Well Known In Chicago.
CHICAGO, Feb. 27-Mrs. Albert
II. Hoy, wife of DIR. Albert P. Hoy, OF
London. and daughter Elizabeth. who
are reported to have been drowned
when the Cunarder Laconia was tor
pedoed, were prominent In Chicago
society.
They first moved to Chicago from
Racine, Wis, about seventeen years
ago. They lived here twelve years
before moving to London. They still
maintained their social connections
here and visited friends and rela
tives frequently.
Dr.. Hoy and his son Austin are II
London and Mrs. Hoy and her daugh
ter were on their way to rejoin then
after spending several months here
| They were guests at the Congress.
hotel and were entertained at Christ
mas time at the home OF Mr.. and Mrs
George w. Blossom, OF Hubbare
Woods.
When they left Chicago, they in
| formed friends that they intended t.
! sail on an American liner and much
surprise was evidenced when it wa.
learned that they had been on the i'll
j fated Laconia.
Austin Hoy, a son, is the Londor
representative OF the Sullivan Ma
chfuery COMPANY
The elder Hoy Is about seventy
years old Miss Elizabeth Hoy, be
lieved to have drowned, was twenty
five years old.
Lost Mother and Sister.
LONDON, Feb. 27-Arthur Youne
Hoy left motherless and sisterless
By the deaths of Mrs. Mary Hoy and
, Miss Elizabeth Hoy in the Laeonis
tragedy, cabled his employers, the
Sullivan Machinery company Of Chi
cago, today. announcing he had taker
ar Indefinite leave OF absence"
This leave, he said, was taken II