The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-09-16
FUNERAL ship
BRINGS VICTIMS
OF zR-2 BLAST
Dauntless, Conveyed By
u. S. Battleships, and
Bearing Sixteen Amer
lean Sailormen, Is Due
In New York Today
Memorial Services To
Be Held By Federal,
State and City Authori-
ties

New York, Sept 16.-The British
cruiser Dauntless, bringing home the
bodies of the 16 officers and men of
the American navy who lost their
lives in the zR-2 disaster, arrived off
Sandy Hook today escorted by two
American war craft.
1t was expected she would wait out
side the harbor until afternoon for
high time before coming to the navy
yard.
New York Sept. 16.-Convoyed by
American battleships, destroyers and
aircraft and marked as a funeral ship
by the half masted colors. the British
cruiser Dauntless is due here today
from England with the bodies of six
teen American sailormen-victims of
the ZR-2 disaster.
The Dauntless was TO be met far
at sea early this morning by the
American flotilla that put out from
the summer naval base at Newport,
r. l. With an American destroyer
marking the way, the Dauntless, fol-
lowed by the other American vessels
and with the seaplanes flying over
head, will pass up Ambrose channel
to the New York navy yard, past forts
that will thunder salutes.
A clear right of way will be given
the funeral ship by all passing yes
sells. Ships at anchor, ferry boats
and other harbor craft will dip their
colors, while their crews man the
decks at attention.
In the yard the cruiser will find
awaiting it a special guard of honor
made up of marines and blueiackets
recruited mainly from the new
dreadnaught Maryland. sent here for
the memorial services of the navy's
dead officers from the French light
cruiser Vile de 'Ys and the Brazilian
battleship Minas Geraes, now in port,
will be present.
To Be Taken to Chapel
AS soon as the Dauntless makes
fast the bodies will be removed to a
temporary chapel where they will
rest until tomorrow when full honOrs
will be given the dead airmen.
A memorial service in which high
officers of the federal, state and mu-
nicipal governments will have part
have been arranged, the services to
be shared by as many citizens as
can be accommodated in the yards
enclosure.
At a near gate, one of the bodies,
that of Lieut.. Commander Emory w.
Coyle, will again be taken to sea, this
time on an American warship, and
somewhere off the coast will be con-
signed to the deep in accordance. with
his wishes.
Only One American Escaped
The bodies brought home today in
clude all but one of the Americans
who were on the ill fated dirigible
when she was destroyed. The excep-
ton is Rigger N. o. Walker, who
escaped with his life. but now is in a
British hospital. The others were:
Commander Louis H. Maxfield, of
ST. Paul, Mimi.
Lieut. Commander Valentine N.
Bieg. Alexandria, Va.
Lieut.. Commander Emery Coyle,
Westboro. Mass.
Lieut.. Charles G. Little, Newberry.
port. Mass.
Lieut.. Marcus H. Easterly, Colum.
biana, Ohio.
Lieut.. Henry r. Hoyt, Seven Oaks
Fla.
Charles l. Aller, rigger, Denver. Col
Maurice Lay, rigger, Birmingham
Ala.
"A. S. Pettitt, rigger, Dickens City
Texas.
Robert M. Coons, machinist, Owens
boro. KY.
Lloyd e. Grown, machinist, Fort