Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-16
BRING BACK BODIES
OF zR-2 VICTIMS
British Funeral Ship Escorted
to New York by Amer
lean Warships
ONE WILL BE BURIED AT SEA
BY the Associated Press

New York, Sept. 16.--The British
cruiser Daunticss, bringing home the
bodies of the sixteen officers and men
of the American navy who lost their
lives in the ZR-2 disaster, arrived oil
Sandy Hook today, escorted by Ameri-
can war craft. She was expected to wait
outside the harbor until afternoon and
then at high tide to come to the navy
yard.
with half-masted colors marking her
as n funeral ship. the Daunt'ess was
escorted by American battleships, de-
| stroycrs and aircraft.
The Dauntless was met far at sea
carly this morning by the American
flotilla, which put out from the sum
iner naval base Mt Newport. II. l. with
nm American destroyer marking the way,
the Dauntless, followed by the other
American vessels, and with the sea
| planes FIXING overhead, will pass up
Ambrose Channel to the New York
Navy Ya'd, past forts which Will thun-
| Ger a salute.
A clea" right of way will be given the
| funeral ship by oil passing vessels.
Ships Mt anchor, ferryboats and other
harbor craft will dip their colors, while
their crews man the decks at attention.
The usual stop at quarantine viii be
dispensed with and police patrol boats
and coast guard cutters have been or
dered to clear the passage up past Gov.
crnors Island, around Battery Point and
into East River to the entrance to the
yard.
Bluejaclet Guard Of Honor
In the yard the cruiser will find
awaiting it special guard of honor,
made up of marines and blueJnckets,
LII. tha I-
| nought 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
Minas Geraes, now in port, will be
present.
AS soon ms the Dauntless makes
fast the bodies will be removed to n
temporary chapel where they will rest
until tomorrow, when full honors Will
he given the dead airmen.
A memorial service in which high Of
ficials of the Federal. State and munich
pal Governments will have n part has
heen arranged-the services to be shared
by as many citizens as can be accom-
modated in the yards inclosure.
At near date one of the bodies,
that of Lieutenant Commander Emory
w. Coil, will again be taken to sea,
| this time on IN hHlcTlCull Nul sliip, anu
somewhere off the coast will be con-
signed to the deep in accordance with
his wishes.
Names Of the Victims
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 exception is \. q.
Walker. n rigger. who escaped with his
life. but now is in British hospital.
The others were Commander Louis
H. Nlaxfeld, of st. Paul. MINI. ; Lieu
tenant Commander Valentine \. Bieg,
Haverford, Pa. Lieutenant Coil, West
boro, Mass. /; Lieutenant Charles G.
Little. Ncwburyport, Mass; Lieu
tenant Marcus H. Easterly. CO.
lumbiana. o.; Lieutenant Henry X.
Hoyte, Seven Oaks. Fla; Charles /.
Aller, rigger. Denver, COL; Maurice
Lay. rgger, Birmingham. Ala; a. 5.
Pettitt, rigger. Dickens City, Tex.
Robert NJ. Coons. machinist, Owens
boro, Ky; Lloyd E. Crowl, machinist,
Fort Wayne, Ind; J. 7. Hancock,
machinist, Shields, Mich; William
julius, machinist, Sedalia. Mo. Albert
l.. Loftin, machinist, Lake Charles,
La; William J. Steele, machinist,
Green Castle, Ind; George Welsh, ma =
chinist, Brcdgon, Can.