Evening star., 1925-09-29
TWO BODIES TAKEN
FROM S-51, DIVERS
SEEKING 81 OTHERS
All Hope Abandoned by OFF,
cers-Navy Orders Caskets
for Victims.
EFFORTS TO LIFT BOAT
ABANDONED FOR TIME
Planes Comb Sea for Three Be-
lieved Swept Overheard When
Craft Went Down.
BY the Associated Press.

NEW LONDON, Conn.,, september
29.-In the air and under the sea men
worked today in their search for the
bodies of victims of the S-5l, (which
went down last Friday night when
she was rammed by the Savannah
line steamer City of Rome IA miles
off Block Island. The first body re-
covered was that of John l.. Gibson,
engineman second class, and was
found in the battery room of the ship
by deep sea divers who resumed
operations this morning after being
forced by strong tides last night to
stop their work.
second body, that of William
Charles Teschemacher of Bangor, Pa.
was taken from the submarine this
forenoon, a radio dispatch stated.
While divers prowled through the
submarine, the hum of seaplane
motors could be heard overhead as
naval aviators flew low over the sur
rounding waters in an effort to find
the bodies Of three men believed to
have been washed overheard with the
three survivors who were picked up
by City of Rome lifeboat.
Hope Virtually Dead.
Today 1t was a search for bodies
Last night 1t was a search for men.
Little hope that any Of the 80 in the
crew could be alive was held out by
officers at the naval station, although
none would publicly admit that they
believed all their shipmateS were dead.
Even when word was received that
20 collins had been ordered from the
Chelsea Naval Hospital to the New
port station, Lieut.. Comdr. II. A.
Flanagan, executive officer of the ba sc,
stressed the point that a part of the
work of the divers was to make sure
that all possible air was being let into
any compartments that might hold
survivors.
The divers, said a message received
at the base. were working separately
One was inside the S-51 working for
ward. The other was on the outside
of the same part Of the ship.
The message also said that air
planes had arrived to assist the two
destroyers that last night used their
searchlights to pierce the darkness
Of the waters around Block Island.
as they searched for the bodies that
eventually would come to the surface
Mrs. Gibson Notified.
Gibson's wife lives In Groton. Conn.,,
Lieut.. Comdr. f. w. Scanlan, in
charge of the submarine training
school, with Mrs. Scanlan and DR..
Jones Of New London, bore the sad
tidingS of her husbands fate to Mrs
Gibson in Groton. Lieut.. Comdr
Scanlan and his wife have made the
rounds every afternoon and evening
to visit the wives and relatives Of the
men who went down on the S-51 and
who have come here from many
points so that they could get first
word of the fate of their dear ones.
Gibson enlisted on September II,
1924. He gave his address at that
time as Amity, Ore. r. F. D. 1S9. He
was 25 years old.
The body of Teschemacher was the
second to be found on the S-51 by
divers today.
Teschemacher' twin brother, Fred
erick, also was aboard and believed to
have been lost. Frederick was
thought to have been at the helm
when the submarine was struck and
one of those washed overheard. The
boys were 19 years old.
Williams body was taken aboard
the Camden, and it was reported in
the message from Rear Admiral
Christy that all bodies would be taken
to the naval hospital at Newport in
stead Of brought to New London. The
message did not state what compart-
ment the youths body was found in,
but indicated that the diver who en-
tered the submarine may have gone
in through the coming tower hatch
instead Of the battery room hatch, as
first reported. The latter message
said he was working toward the bat
terry room hatch from the torpedo
room.
Flanagan Has Hope.
Lieut.. Comdr. H. A. Flanagan, ex.
ecutive officer at the base, last night
steadfastly refused to give up his be-
lief that some of the men might be
alive.
Those fellows know how to act in
a case like that" he told newspaper
men in an early morning talk. 1T is
hard to believe that some of them
would not have presence Of mind
enough to slam shut the door of a
watertight compartment when they
felt the thud as they were struck.
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