The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-07-08
.I9 AMERICANS DIE
BRITISH STEAMER ARMENIAN
ToRPEDoED AND SUNK BY
GERMAN SUBMARINE.
HAD HORSES FOR ENGLAND
Vessel Attacked by Undersea Craft
OF Trevose Head, cornwalI-Doubt
as to Whether the Vessel Was
Troop or Merchant Ship.


Washington, July 2.-The British
owned steamship Armenian Of the
Dominion line was torpedoed and sunk
by the German submarine U-38 20
miles west of Trevose head, Cornwall,
England, on Tuesday night. and a
number of Americans we're lost. The
information came in dispatches to the
state department.
The official count says that 20 men
were lost and ten injured and gives
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 Dominion line steamship
Armenian from Newport News was
torpedoed and sunk at p. m. June 2S'
20 miles west by north of Trevose
head, Cornwall, by German submarine
U-3S. That the Marconi house wat
struck by a shot and that 29 men we're
lost and ten injured"
The following American horse at
tendants are missing:
F. Williamson, address unknown.
]. NJ Monroe, New Orleans.
B. M. Cranberry, Ais Warrington
street, Montgomery, Ala.
S. R. Sutton, Cartersville, Va.
Harry Stone, New York city.
Cattle Carpenter Brown, Harrisburg,
Pa.
DR.. j. S. Viso. Porto Rico.
R. H. Brooks or West, chief fore
man, naturalized American, London.
julius, Jenry. William. Virginia,
(coloredD.
J. Smith, Portsmouth, (colored)
Wall, Foley, Little, Newport News,
(colored).
Leroy, Jackson, John Speed. Rich
mond, (colored).
King, Small, Rickart, Oakes. Nor
fold, (colored,.
1t is reported to the consul that
Doctor Viso and three Of the negroes
were picked up by submarine. 9th
er survivors we're picked up by the
Belgian trawler Professor Stevens and
transferred to two destroyers at noon
yesterday and brought to Bristol last
night.
The Armenian sailed from Newport
News June II with cargo Of horses
consigned to Avonmouth, west coast
of England, for the English army.
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. H.
State department officials do not re-
gard the information now at hand IS
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.
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 it a warship subject to attack on
sight by German war vessels.
New York, July 2.-W. w. Jeffries,
general manager Of the International
Mercantile Marine company of which
the Dominion line is a subsidiary, de.
clared that the Armenian was not un.
der charter to the British government
or to any government and never had
been.
The Armenian was built In Belfast
by Harland & Wolff in 1895. She is
Of 8,S25 gross tons and has a length
Of 512.5 feet and a beam Of 59.2 feet
When she sailed from Newport News
she was in command of Capt, John
Trickey.