Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-06-04 | Page 20 | Utah Man Lost on Transport Lincoln

UTAH M LOST 01 TWIUIOLI Lloyd Burt Haight of Trenton Tren-ton Gives Life as Ship Is Torpedoed. One Utah youth. Lloyd Burt Haifiht of Trenton, Cache county, gave up hi a life for his country when the transport President Presi-dent Lincoln was torpedoed. May "1. Altogether, three ofllcers went down with the ship and one was captured by the submarine. Twenty - three men were lost. The transport way returning to thia coun-trv. coun-trv. Air. Haight enlisted June 23. 1917, at the Salt J ,ake recruiting office, as a landsman, lands-man, and was sent I in mediately to the Pacific (.-oast lor training. After the usual train Inn period he was sen t to the Atlantic At-lantic coast lor transatlantic duty, the aim of every (iiihtlir.; sailor. , The dead sailor was horn at. Hiawatha. Utah. Jle leaves a widow. Mrs. Margaret Halht. at Trenton. Before enlisting he was a painter and photographer, lie was I'd years old.