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MAIDEN ERLEGH IS LOST AT SEA A. B. Hancock Notified that Famous English Stallion Is a Victim to Submarine Attack. Lexington, Ky., September 11. A. 15. Hancock of Paris, owner of Claiborne and Ellerslie Studs of thoroughbred horses, received last night a cablegram from Edward Moorehouse, president of the British Blood Stock Agency, London, which read: "Sorry report Erlegh went down." Amplified, this message was to the effect that the celebrated English stallion Maiden Erlegh, which Mr. Hancock recently purchased and for -which lie refused a profit from M. Varipati, the Greek buyer, had been lost at sea as the result of a submarine attack. It was Mr. Hancocks information that Maiden Erlegh was coming to America on the steamship Minnehaha, so it is the belief here that the Minnehaha was sunk, though a telegram from the steamship companys offices in New York this afternoon to George H. Strate of Burke, California, is to the effect that they have no news of :my such happening. Strate is en route to New York, where he had arranged to receive the valuable English stallion Sunflower II., six mares and three foals, which he purchased for his employer J. II. Rosseter of San Francisco. Strate left here tonight for Louisville, hopeful that the Minnehaha is still afloat. "I know," he said, "onr horses were on her when she sailed. It is likely that there were three mares also on the boat for Mr. Hancock. All of these horses, however, were insured." i
