The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-09-16
BRITISH SHIP
ARRIVES WITH
BALLOON DEAD
Dauntless Brings Bodies of 10
Officers and Men of Ameri-
can Army Lost in R-2
Disaster.
WAITS FOR HIGH TIDE
(Rx Associated Press,


NEW YORK. Sept 16.-The British
cruiser Dauntless, bringing home the
bodies of the Is officers and men of
the American navy who lost their lives
in the ZR2 disaster, arrived off Sandy
Hook today, escorted by American war
craft.
She was expected to wait outside
the harbor until afternoon and then at
high tide to come to the navy yard.
The Dauntless was conveyed by
American battleships, destroyers and
aircraft and marked as a funeral ship
by the half masted colors.
The Dauntless was to be met far
at sea early this morning by the
American flotilla, which put out from
the summer naval base at Newport,
R. |. With an American destroyer
marking the way, the Dauntless fol-
lowed by the other American vessels
and with the seaplanes flying over
head, was to pass up Arbrose channel
to the New York navy yard past forts
which was to thunder salute.
Gets Right of Way.
clear right of way was to be given
the funeral ship by all passing vessels.
Ships at anchor, ferry boats and other
harbor craft were to dip their colors,
while their crews manned the decks at
attention.
The usual stop at quarantine will
be dispensed with and police patrol
boats and coast guard cutters have
been ordered to clear the passage up
past Governors Island, around Battery
Point, and into East River into the
entrance to the yard.
The cruiser will find awaiting it a
special guard of honor made up of
marines and bluejackets, recruited
mainly from the new dreadnought
Maryland, sent here for the memorial
services of the navy's dead Officers
| from the French light cruiser Vile
| D'ys and the Brazilian battleship Min
as Ceraes, now in port, would be pres
/ ent.
| AS soon as the Dauntless makes fast
the bodies will be removed to a TEN
porary chapel where they will rest
until tomorrow when full honors will
be given the dead airmen
Officials to Take Part
A memorial service in which high
1 officials of the federal, state an6
municipal governments will have e
part has been arranged-the services
| to be shared by as many citizens as
can be accommodated in the yards
/ enclosure.
At a near date one of the bodies
that of Lieut.. Commander Emory W
Coil, will again be taken to sea, thi:
time on an American warship and
somewhere off the coast will be con
signed to the deep in accordance with
his wishes.
One Left in Hospital
The bodies brought home today in
clude all but one of the American!
who were on the illfated dirigiblt
when she was destroyed The excep
! tion is Rigger N o. Walker, who es
capped with his life but now is in (;
British hospital. The others were
/ Commander Louis H. Maxfield. o
st. Paul, Mimi: Lieut. Commando
Valentine M. Pieg, Alexandria, Va
Lieut.. Commander Emory Coil, West
boro, Mass; Lieut.. Charles c. Little
Newburyport, Mass; Lieut.. Marcu
H. Easterly, Columbiana, o.; Lieut.
Henry R. Hoyte, Seven Oaks, Fla.
Charles l. Aller. rigger, Denver, Colo
Maurice Lay, rigger. Birmingham
Ala; A. S. Petit, rigger, Dickins City
Tex; Robert NJ Coons, machinis-
Owensboro, Ky; Lloyd E. Crowl, ma
chinist. Fort Wayne. Ind; ]. T. Har
cock, machinist, Shields, Mich; Wi
liam julius, machinist, Seladia, Mo.
Albert Loftin, machinist. of LAX
Charles, La; William ]. Steele, ma
chinist, Greencastle, Ind; Georg
Welsh, machinist, Bredgon, Canada
WASHINGTON, Sept. 16-Secre
tary of the navy DENLY with hi
aides. D. F. Sellers of the navy an
Col. D. d. Porter of the Marine corp:
will leave Washington tonight TO
New York to represent the navy {
the funeral ceremonies for the 2 r
deaths. at the Brooklyn navy yard
tomorrow
Rear Admiral w A. Moffett, hea
of the bureau of aeronautics and con
mander Dennis Whiting, Lieutenar
Commander Zachary Lansdowne. an
Ensign j. H. Hyker, representing th
bureau of aeronautics, also are to a
tend the ceremonies.