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Images from the Lindon Bates, Jr. Collection

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Telegram from Lindon Bates, Sr. sent on May 7, 1915 asking Lindon Bates, Jr. “Rox” to send a confirmation cable. “Mother wishes you cable on receipt of this.” The first telegram is a copy of one sent by Lindon Bates, Sr. in New York City to Lindon Bates, Jr. aboard the Lusitania requesting “Rox” to return a confirmation cable. It is not clear if this was before or after the attack.

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Telegram from Herbert Hoover to Lindon Bates, Sr. on May 8, 1915 (11:46am) stating that 500 out of 640 reported survivors have been named but Rox’s name does not appear on any lists. Hoover is sending Rox’s brother, Lindell “Dell” Bates, to Queenstown.

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Telegram from Herbert Hoover to Lindon Bates, Sr. on May 8, 1915 (7:45pm) from London notifying the Bates family that Rox has not appeared on the survivors list yet. “We do not abandon hope...”

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Telegram from Herbert Hoover to Lindon Bates, Sr. on May 9, 1915 (8:48am) stating that all but 58 survivors have been named. Access to those remaining 58 survivors is barred by the physicians.

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Telegram from Herbert Hoover to Lindon Bates, Sr. on May 9, 1915 (9:19pm) keeping the hope alive as it is reported that some boats (“trawlers”) went to England with survivors rather than to Ireland. “So still hope.”

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Telegram from Herbert Hoover to Lindon Bates, Sr. on May 9, 1915 (11:25pm) reporting that Dell has arrived in Queenstown. Telegrams out of Queenstown are taking 7 to 8 hours. Dell has been interviewing survivors but no one so far remembers encountering Rox.

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Telegram from Herbert Hoover to Lindon Bates, Sr. on May 10, 1915 (8:18am) reporting news that Dell has been in touch with survivors who saw Lindon in a heavy overcoat searching for two children on the lower decks and “was probably caught in rapids dragged down.”

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Telegram from Lindell Bates to Lindon Bates, Sr. on May 10, 1915 (5:48pm) that he learned from a doctor and Mrs. Warren Pearl that Rox was searching for the Pearl children when a wave hit the sinking ship and he was not seen from again. Rox “acted in extremely unselfish and courageous way”

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Telegram from Lindell Bates to Lindon Bates, Sr. on May 10, 1915 (5:48pm) that he learned from a doctor and Mrs. Warren Pearl that Rox was searching for the Pearl children when a wave hit the sinking ship and he was not seen from again. Rox “acted in extremely unselfish and courageous way”

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Telegram from Lindon Bates, Sr. to Lindell Bates on May 13, 1915 (no time) giving information about Rox that could be used to identify his body. “Be assured Mother and I are captains of our souls.”

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Telegram from Lindell Bates to Lindon Bates, Sr. on May 15, 1915 (12:05pm) notifying family that he is leaving Queenstown and that the chances of recovering Rox are “infinitesimal” at this point. He is one of the last to leave.

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