The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 8, 1918, Page 8

} + Teel oe al tintin in deli Ret a Te adel FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1018 AA BADLY MUTILATED, UNRECOGNIZABLE BODIES OF AMERICANS WASHED TO SHORE ON IRISH COAST AND NAMELESS VICTIM S WILL BE BURIED IN COMMON GRAVE | cania dwindled today, expressions of amazement were heard frequently that OFFICIAL RECORD OF SAILING LIST OF ILLFATED SHIP An Irish Port, Fed, 8.—The Tus- cania carried a total of 2,397. The OF TUSCANI saved number 2,296 as follows: Troops, 2,106; Crew, 190; | Total lost 101. 2.296 of the Surivors Quartered at Among the American survivors | MASS OF WRECKAGE ON CALM FACE OF IRISH SEA MARKS THE GRAVES been able to save more than the clothes on his back. Many of the Am- ericans came ashore dressed as they would have been {f the disaster had occurred in the middle of the night, for the long struggle in the water vir- tualy had denuded them. Homes Thrown Open Long before any of the survivors were brought in, the town folks had thrown open their homes. The wife of the British commodore command- ing the port helped prepare a number of homes close to the water front. for MURDERED CARGO which swarmed to the scene. The first trawler load of survivors arrived in port four hours after the disaster 18.0F THE AMERIGEN CONTINGENT ARE NOT ACCOUNTED FOR BUT THIS MAY BE REDUCED Summary as Exact as Possible Plac Places Total Loss of Life at 210--Part of the Crew Killed by Explosions in Engine Room—Fatality List | a crowded transport could be torped- oed with such a comparatively small loss of life. The nearness of rescue craft, the fact that the vessel was afloat for two hours after a torpedo | had exploded in her boiler rooms, and possibly the proximity of the British coats al were factors in reducing the loss. are 76 officers. There-are8t Am- erican troops in hospitals. BRITAIN DEEPLY | Trish Homes, Hotels and Hos- and the last eight hours afterwards. One trawler rescued the record num- pitals ber of 340, and all were Americans. The feat earned the warm praise of; TWO GROUPS GO TO BELFAST | the British commodore here. Many ———_ American officers and privates were rescued while swimming about — in Names of the Saved and Lost Un- | search of wreckage to which to cling. the reception of the Americans, some of whom were suffering from pneu- monia, bruises, exposure and the mumps. The first thing the towns people did the following morning was to ser- enade the Americans with a brass j band and \to organize a parade to the town hall where there was a special Uncertain, However, and Exact Number of Lost Not Known Until Today—-Names of Many Probably Never Known Because of Incomplete E: Army officers say it must be remem- bered that the troops aboard were not seasoned veterans, nor even line men soldier, into whom every effort ervice Emblem3 ntry on 8 as had been made to enstil discipline s o Beatie : a e es “ee which would have stood them in good An Irish Port, Feb. 8.—The bodies of 44 of the missing 101 victims | stead in such an emergency. The of the Tuseania disaster were washed up Thursday on the rocks 15] fact that most of them were brought miles from the scene of the torpedoing. All were Americans and their bodies were mutilated beyond recognition, A pathetic feature, is that altho identification numbers had been 1 cans had not as yet been assigned there is no way to identil'y them and they will be buried in one grave. Washington, D. (., Feb. department last night accounted fo can soldiers who were on board the Brit y night off the Trish eo marine sent her down Tues This figure was not final and hi prove much smaller were built up men, most of them members of the tire ‘toree of soldiers, sailors and passengers. No List No attempt was made tonight to prepare a list of the lost or » Only a few names of survivors had been received and the indiea- ing. tions were that it would be impossible to announce them all before tomorrow at the earliest. The rescued were landed at widely seperated Irish and Scotch ports and, while all reports tell of elaborate arangements for their care and comfort, urgent instructions to representatives of the war, state and navy departments that full details of the disaster and a complete record of the saved be sent at the earliest possible moment tonight had brought but meagre responses, Official Reports According to the war department's offiial report tonight, the total missing from the 2,397 persons aboard the lin- er was 210. The latest dispatch gave this recapulation. ‘Survivors, United States trops 2,043. Crew and passengers 141. Total 2,184, On board, United States troops, 2,- 156; crew and passengers, 241, total 2,397. Missing, United States troops 113. . Crew and passengers 97. Total 210. 4,000 WISCONSIN MEN Polish Soldiers From Milwaukee Half of Those Aboard. Detroit, Mich., Feb, 8—A staff spec- 8.—Latest official advic safely to land is acepted as evidence, however, that there was no_ panic. Some jumped overboard, but nearly all bravely stood fast to await their fate. ms wore tags, no ise these Ameri- Therefore ugh all the vy yut on them bee to definite army units, Forestry Battalion’ These soldiers were woodsmen of the forestry battalion, men of the supply train, of the engineer train. The most disciplined unit aboard un- doubtedly would be the military po- lice. The others are men devoted to hard work behind the lines, Around the navy department there was renewed talk tonight of “bottling up” the submarines. Many officers believe that a way can be found to hold the U-boats within narrow limits and keep the rest of the seas free ex- cept for occasional raiders which might slip through. There is no doubt that plans to this end have been giv. en great study both here and abroad. Anti-Submarine Efforts. The weight of American anti-sub- marine efforts yet to be brought to bear. What has been accomplished al ready by American naval forces has been through makeshift devices and converted craft in a great measure. Every week now, however, sees the nearer approach of the day when all the plans and efforts of the navy will BY TORPEDO IX Second Torpedo Crosses Wake of | way of additional tenets craft and improved devices. On this is based the Ship but One Blow Proves belief that the submarines can be Sufficient to the war ept 113 of the 2,156 Ameri- h liner Tuscania when a sub- st. r all of life would ying just 101 ing among the en- gh hopes that the lo on cabled repor' erew, were mis of Lost. TUSCANIA SUNK largely curbed before summer. GUARDED CONVOY SINKS ON AN EVEN KEEL | Splendin Order of the Men When the ——_- Disaster Occurred An Irish Port, Feb. 8.—At an early hour yesterday morning 50 survivors including troops and members of the crew of the torpedoed troop ship Tus- cania, were landed at this port. Sur- vivors had been landed at other Irish and Scottish ports, so it is difficult to estimate the ex number of casual ties, but it is believed they will total less than 200. a large part of this number being members of the vessel's crew. Good Order at Time of Mishap and Men Take to Boats in Great Courage elion is { icals here in tha unottieral counts of the desiruction of the British liner Tu in by a Cer- ay ial to the Detroit Free Press from Camp Mac Arthur, Texas, where the} Wisconsin and Michigan former nat- jonal guardsmen have been training, | says it is believed that more than 1000 | Wisconsin officers and men were aboard the torpedoed liner Tus Among them are believed to have been about 500 Polish soldiers from Mil- waukee and other Wisconsin cities. While there was no al-Michigan or- ganization on board, says the dispatch, it is believed about 200 Michigan men were scattered through the units res- ignated by the war department. PROCESSION OF SURVIVORS — | Lord Mayor of Belfast Sends Message | | of Sympathy. Belfast, Feb. 8.—Immediately news of the disaster to the Tuscania w fa destr | is the desire to strike back, man submarine wh owed that | The ‘Tuscania was part of a well British, gave cha raider and pose sibly sank her with a depth boinb, | out sign of a submarine of any sort, No details of the attack had) torpedo struck the liner full amid- !eome last night from official! ships. The track of another torpedo sources | was immediately afterward noticed ern, Without panic and in splendid order | the men reached the boat stations, but the work of lowering the boats was hampered by the tremendous list of the liner. One or two of the first series of boats manned capsized while being lowered. After their occupants had been thrown into the water other boats were let down right on top of | them and it is feared several men lost their lives in this way. The liner continuvd to float a con- ‘| the Irish coast when, just as darkness rerly, S of a trans- row over the first lo port laden with American troops tempered by the growing total survivors and the dominant em- otion among army and navy men now | Incident an Isolated One Navy officials see no ‘reason to} change their opinion that the submar- ine menace is being overcome. The | known—Survivors Eager to DEPLORES LOSS | of wreekage on the calm face of! Great Relief of Tension When Re. | the sea along the Irish coast marks : - | the grave of the Tuseania, the first} ports Indicate Loss of Life | American troop transport sank by Small {a German submarine. A few | bodies of the one hundred men | who perished have been washed jashore and some of the injured |now in hospitals are expected to Record as Whole Regarded as succumb. The survivors, numbering | 2,296, are quartered in hotels, homes Creditable to’Seamanship of and hospitals along the north Irish the Crew. | | coast. Two groups left today clad in mis- London, Feb, 8—Few events of the; St clothing for Belfast by rail and war in the past few-months have stir-| red the English people more deeply | thence by boat to England. The sur- vivors are agreed that no one saw the| than the disaster to American troops approaching a British “harbor on a} | Wake of foam as the torpedo came to- British transport. Such an eventual- ward the vessel. It was a black night and no alarm ity had-been feared. came from any one of the fifteen look- The first news, before the landing | °U'S: of the survivors at different ports be-| came known, caused the belief that; The possibility of being torpedoed there was a heavy tdll in lives, run-| was discussed daily since the vessel ning into hundreds and perhaps more | left the American shores. Several hun: than a thousand: All’the known cir-| dred young lumberjacks from the cumstances impressed the public with southwest and Pacific coast states the feeling that the greatest sea trag-| were eating their evening meal at the edy in Atlantic waters’since the sink-| time the disaster occurred. Hundreds ing of the Lusitania and possibly of other American troops were wait- greater loss of life had occurred, The | jing for theirs when the alarm sound- latest bulletins tonight, however, in-| ed. dicate that the casualties may be 100 False alarms had been sounded for or even less, has caused a distinct re-; boat drill every day of the trip, but lief from the tension. i jal new thisk one was genuine. Officers Of those lost a large proportion are | shouted instructions to the men, Many members of the crew. It is not yet|of them were husky youths, and, de- NO SURPRISE IN INCIDENT! Torpedoing Discussed | | | A few of those could not swim but i | display of American made motion pic- ‘tures, The Quinine thet oDes Not Affect the. Hea | they had on their life belts which they , had kept close at hand throughout the ' voyage. In Water Three Hours Lieutenant Donald A. Smith, of Al-' gonac, Mich., was in the water three hours in a life belt before he was ' Because of its tonic “and laxative et: fect, Laxative Bromo Quinine can be taken by anyone without causing hauled aboard a trawler, nervousness or ringing in the head. The towns people were very gener-; There is only one “Bromo Quinine.’* ous in extending aid and sympathy to E, W.. GROVE’S signature is on bo: the Americans, none of whom had 30c. & To Relieve Sick Headache —Remove the Cause! r i ' H 1 HEN your head aches you will usual- ly find that you are constipated and bilious, To correct constipation and clear the system of the fermenting, congestion of stomach waste, foul. gases and bile, use DR. CALDWELL'S he Perfect Laxative Tuscania incident is regarded as an! The’ een inyolvei is about $4,000 received here steps were taken to pro- vide for the survivors. A large amount of clothing and other necessaries was despatched to the nearby ports of} rescue, preparations were also made to house those who might be broughtt to Belfast and an offer was made to supply any needs required for the comfort or aid of the men. The lord mayor sent the following message to Walter S. Page, the Am- erican ambassador at London: “On behalf of the citizens of Bel-| fast, I offer to the United States my} deepest sympathy in this fresh out-| rage to which American subjects and | shipping have been subjected near here. I respectfully and earnestly offer all necessary help, and I am in con- tact with the survivors at this mo- ment.” AVIATORS BURNED TO. DEATH IN DIVE OF FAULTY PLANE ‘Lawton, Okla., Feb. 8,—Lieutenant Dudle A. Loomis, pilot, and Lieuten- ant ‘Loftin Stamps, observer, were burned to death Thursday at Fort Sill, when their machine made a nose dive from a height of 500 feet and burst into flames as it struck the ground, The engine failed and as the pilot attempted a spiral landing the mach- ine toppled over dashing to the ground. The plane was almost destroyed by the flames before the bodies of the men could be extricated from the wreckage. Loomis was 22 years old and a na- tive of Moscow, Idaho and student at Idaho state university. Stamps enlifst- ed at Atlanta. He was 24 years old. KNIGHT PRINTING CO. LANDS BIG. CONTRACT The Knight Printing Co. of Fargo was the successful bidder on the eight institutional catalogs for whose print- ing contracts were awarded by the boar. dof regents this week. Catalogs are to be printed ‘for the university, agricuttural college atid the’ stx no’ maisValley City, Mayville, Minot, | | | siderable time. The work of rescu- ing the men from the water was car- ried out by boats from the escorting vessels and patrols called to the scene, On the arrival of the survivors here many were removed to hospitals but a great majority of the men were lodged in hotels, where hot meals were served them by volunteers work- ing under the Shipwreched Sailors’ society. The soldiers also were fitted out with warm clothing and given comforts. There were many pitiable scenes, a number of the men being on the verge of collapse from shock and uncertainty as to the fate of their comrades. They soon recovered, however, and treated their experience with wonderful indif- ference. NEWS REACHES LONDON Vice Admiral Sims in Rome Notified of (Disaster. London, Feb: 8.—News of the sink- ing of the Tuscania reached the Am- erican military authorities here Wed- nesday morning. Additional machinery for relief work immediately was put into action and several score offic- ‘ials of the American army and navy left here during the day for Ireland. Vice Admiral Wm. Sims, commander of the American destroyer squadron in European waters, who now is in Rome for a few days, was notified by telegram of the disaster. The night boat train which goes direct to the port where the majority of the survivors were landed, was crowded to overflowing. The passen- gers included many American Red Cross workers, representatives of the isolated case which may serve to de- velope additional methods for repeling the undersea craft and improving the convoy system. No details of the ac- tion will be passed over when full re- ports from the British admiralty are available. Many devices enter into the battle against the U-boats, some of which have been evolved by American in- ventors. Others have been greatly improved since the United States en- tered the war, and the detection ap- paratus now installed on American craft is so successful that British craft are being similarly equipped. Location Finding There have been ‘indications that the U-boats have learend to fear this ability of American craft to locate them at a distance and maneuver to bring the submerged vessel within the range of a depth bomb. With a des- troyer in the vicinity, the underwater craft moves carefully, far below the surface of the water, depending on mechanical ears which bring to her the propeller beats of the surface ves- sel. When a destroyer stops to “lis- ten” unhampered by the beat of her own engines, the lurking foe also| stops, to lie silent below until the des- troyer moves on again. Such details as have come from Eu- rope indicate that the Tuscania was torpedoed by a single submarine, ; which slipped under the advance screen of destroyers leading the con- voy fleet. There is no evidence of an attack in force, and the U-boat prob- ably got into the path of the liner largely by chance. Sometimes as many as forty vessels make up a convoying fleet. Tuscania’s Destination. War department officials would say nothing today as to the destination of the Tuscania. It was admitted that American troops had been sent for- ward by British trans-Atlantic liners military and naval men. A correspondent of the Associated Press travelling on this train, found every seat taken a half hour before leaving time and a number of passen- on several ocasions. There are re- gers standing in the aisles for the all ports that the great White Star liner night trip. Olympic, largest of the British mer- > chant fleet and second only to the now American Leviathan, formerly the Ger- THA T ANNOYIN G, PERSISTENT COUGH man Vaterland, has Le employed in may lend to chronic Jung ig a or that work, There is no indication in the loss mean that the fuse cae Teached. Ia el of the Tuscania, that a rcan mene of submarines against American troop ship lines has been made. On the con- ECKMAN'S 'ALTERATIVE trary, the efforts of the German high ent tonts gant PAD pei od eupe command still appears to be directed fees Gieatmene without ais tach tae primarily the---cargo~ craft; con Alcohol, Indes wa mas Pi AL dr Small Loss of Life. Wahpeton, Eltendale and Dickinson. “against bound for British ports. As the roll of missing from the Tus-, ory, Philadel e HOTU Y. M. C. A. and a large number of|! known how many of the ships officers survived. There is no surprise over this inci- dent ;the only cause for wonder is| that, of the hundreds of troop laden transports which have crossed the/ Atlantic in the past ‘three years and others. The record as a. whole 1s con- sidered by seamen most creditable to the British mercantile and naval ser- vices, If the attack had occurred in day- light the whole ship’s.company might have escaped. But in the darkness of a moonless night with the ship rapidly listing, so that some .of. the boats were smashed by the explosion and with many men on board. who had guarded convoy and was in sight of | ever been on the ocean, before, there | were all the possibilities of a general} dropped on Tuesday evening and with-| Panic and wholesale drownings. As it) Ss : 5 PP y is was, many were cescued from the cai the vessel, told Lieut A. K. Chamber- after hours on wave washed rafts,| some even swimming supported by; timbers, ,and their sufferings were in- tense. A number succumbed after, be- ing taken aboard the .rescue boats; others after they had been. brought ashore. ATTACK ON RESCUERS Hun Sub Launches Torpedoes in the Thick of Disaster. London, Feb. 8,—A German sub- stroyers while the latter were engag- ed in resuce work, an American of- ficer stated at another Irish port, where a large number of men were landed. The officer said to a corres- pondent of the Associated Press: “The thing that somehow impressed me most in the whole experience was the promptitude and precision with which the British naval men handled their craft under the trying condi- tions of rescue work. This work had only just begun when there came the most exciting. moments of the ‘night. | ‘A U-boat from the curtain of black- ness behind which she wes skulking, thought e finish the work by an at-) tack onthe destroyers, Three tor- pedoes were discharged in a few min- utes at three destroyers and it was only due to watchfulness of the look- outs and the splendid seamonship on the British naval men that they fail- ed to reach their targets. “This onslaught, however, revealed the approximate location of the enemy and a pair of destroyers at once at- tacked with guns and bombs so effic- iently that even if the U-boat was not sunk, it was afraid to. show itself again.” NOTICE Dance set for Feb, 9th will be given Friday Feb. 8. The Jolly Dancing Clu. 27 2 ' Annual Masquerade BALL —Given by— Modern Brotherhood of America —at— PATTERSON'S HALL FRBRUARY 14 Everyone Cordially Invited Tickets $1. ahd ae! 25c more the same fate hag not befallen | could not be launched, while some)’ marine endeavored to attack the de-| | spite their brief military training they | displayed wonderful coolness as they | marched to their boat stations. (| Nothing Resembling Panic There was no running about, noth- ing resembling a panic. In a few iso- lated cases there were signs of ner- vousness on the part of some of the youngsters as the ship took a heavy | tilt to starboard, and they slid to the railing, to which they clung for dear life, But that was all. Veteran British officers in the crew, who had been torpedoed several times, marvelled at their coolness. Survivors do not agree as to wheth- jer the submarine emerged after tor- pedoing the steamer. Several of the ship's officers said they saw the peri- scope and conning tower once. A white bearded member of the | crew who was one of the last. to leave Drug Stores'Everywh jJain, of Washington, D. C., that he had | floated off in a life boat. ° A Cry of Anguish “T heard” be said, “a single cry of anguish come from the hold as the waters closed over thé vessel. “A tiny trawler, which remained with the Tuscania to the last, saw’a ; Small fire break out, amidships as the | vessel's back appeared to break in two. With a hissing sound, she disap- peared beneath the wavés, Most of the crew who lost their lives were killed in the explosion in the boiler room. One of the survivors of the engine room force said the sec- }ond engineer checked the speed: of A TRIAL BOTTLE CAN BE OBTAINED, TO DR. W. B. 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