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Show PARENTS CONSOLED FOB DF1HJF SONS Secretary Daniels Writes Letters Let-ters Expressing Sorrow, at Direction of President, WASHINGTON, April 22. Letters expressing ex-pressing profound sorrow of President Wilson and Secretary Daniels at the death of the four sailors and marines at Vera Cruz yesterday, were dispatched today by tho secretary of the navy to the parents of the men, Tho letters were addressed to William Poinsett of Philadelphia, Mrs. Isabella MoKInnon of Brooklyn, N. Y mother of Coxswain Schumacher, Mayer Marten of Chicago and Michael Hagserly of Cambridge, Cam-bridge, Mass Mr. Daniels wrote to each: This morning's dispatches from Vera Cruz conveying the distressing news that your son was in the first lino to give his life for his country, sad-dsns sad-dsns all Americn as the tragedy brings gloom Into your home. My feeling and thu feeling of the president to you In this sad hour was expressed by President Lincoln, when, on November 21, 1SCL he wrote to Mrs. Blxby of Boston, whose flvo sona gave their lives fighting under Ihe American flag: "I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from a loss so overwhelming. But 1 cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the republic they have died to save, I pray that our heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement bereave-ment and leave you only tho cherished cher-ished memory of the loved and lost, and tho solemn nrldo that must bo yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice sacri-fice upon the altar of freedom." |