Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-07-07
IS AMERICANS DIE
ON TORPED0EDSH SHIP;
REPORT TO WILSON
British Steamer Armenian Sunk
by German Submarine.
HAD HORSES FOR ENGLAND
Vessel Attacked by Undersea Craft
on Trevose Head, cornwaiI-Doubt
40 to Whether Vessel Wac
Troop or Merchant Ship.


Washington. July 1.-The British
owned steamship Armenian of the
Dominion line was torpedoed and sunk
BY the German submarine U-3S 20
miles west of Trevose head. Cornwall.
England, on Tuesday night, and a
number OF Americans were lost The
information came in dispatches TO the
state department
Twenty-Five Persons Lost.
The official count says that 29 men
were lost and ten injured and gives g
list Of American citizens, white and
colored.- who are crossing with the
ship.
The official state department state
ment is as follows:
This department has received
cablegrams from the American consul
at Birmingham, England, reporting
that the Leyland line steamship
Armenian from Newport News was
tcrpedoed and sunk at D. m. June %.
20 miles west by north OF Trevose
U-3S. That the Marconi house was
struck by a shot and that 20 men were
lost and ten injured"
The following American horse at
tendants are missing:
+. Williamson. address unknown.
]. NJ. Monroe. New Orleans
B. n. Cranberry, Ais Washington
street. Montgomery. Ala.
8. r. Sutton, Gainesville, Va.
Harry Stone. New York city.
Cattle Carpenter Brown. Harrisburg,
Pa.
DR.. ]. 8. viso. Porto Rico.
R. H. Brooks, or West, chief fore
man. naturalized American, London.
J. Smith. Portsmouth, {colored).
Wall. Foley, Little, Newport News,
(colored).
Leroy. Jackson, John Speed, Rich
mond, (colored).
King. Small, Rickert, Cakes, Nor
tOIk. 4coIQredl: W 80
Four saved by Submarine.
1t is reported to the consul that Dr.
viso and three Of the negroes were
picked up by submarine. Other sur
vivors were picked up by the Belgian
trawler Professor Stevens and trans
ferred to two destroyers at noon yes
terday and brought to Bristol last
night
The Armenian sailed from Newport
News June IL with a cargo of horses
consigned to Avonmouth, west coast
Of England, for the English army.
Facts Telesraphed to President.
The facts in the case as obtained
from Consul Armstrong at Bristol and
all the information obtainable here as
to the character Of the vessel were
telegraphed to the president at Corn
ish, N. II.
State department officials do not re-
gard the information now at hand as
sufficient on which to express an opin-
ion and especially on which to make
intelligent representations to Ger.
many. The department therefore
cabled to Ambassador Page to send
on at once all the details he could
secure.
May Be classed az Troop Ship.
The main point In the case of the
Armenian Is whether she is an actual
member OF the British navy as troop
ship or horse ship. She could be such,
either by having been taken over by
the government itself for that purpose
or by the government itself having
chartered the ship. and therefore max
ing 1t a warship subject to attack on
sight by German war vessels.
ciassed az Merchant Ship.
New York, July wv. w. Jeffries,
Mercantile Marine company OF which
the Leylanc line Is a subsidiary, de-
cIared that the Armenian was not I'M
der charter to the British government
or to any government and never had
been
She could be regarded as nothing
else than a peaceful merchantmen
carrying a general cargo OF American
origin to a British port" he continued
Her cargo was taken aboard at New
port News and she left that port on
June II for Liverpool. As far as
know, her cargo was the usual cargo
that all freighters have been carrying
since the war began"
The Armenian was built in Belfast
by Harland & Wolf in 1895. She is OF
s,S25 gross tons and has a length oil
512.5 feet and beam Of 59.2 feet
When she sailed from Newport News
she was In command of Capt. John