Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1915-07-09
IS 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.

0oAAHNOhs July
owned steamship Armenian Of the
Dominion line was t~orpedoed and sunk
by the German submarine U-3S 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
we're lost and ten injured and gives a
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 s p. m. June ~,
20 miles west by north of Trevose
head, Cornwall, by German submarine
U-3S. That the Marconi house was
struck by a shot and that 29 men were
lost and ten injured"
The following American horse at
tendants are missing:
F. Williamson, address unknown.
J. NJ. Monroe, New Orleans.
B. M. Cranberry, Ais Washington
street, Montgomery, Ala.
s.. R. Sutton, Gainesville, 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, n~aturalized American, London.
julius, Jenry, William, Virginia,
(colored).
]. Smith, Portsmouth, (%colored).
Wall, Foley, Little, Newport News,
(colored).
Leroy. Jackson. John Speed. Rich
mond, (colored).
King, Small, Rickart, Cakes, Nor
fold, (coloredj.
1t is reported to the consul that
Doctor Viso and three of the negroes
we're picked up by a submarine. DIN
er survivors were picked up by the
Belgian trawler Professor Stevens and
transferred to two d~estroyers ct moo
yesterday and brought to Bristol last
night.
The Armenian sailed from Newport
News June II with a 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 ob.ainable here as
TO the character of tho vessel were
te~legraphed to the president 1t Corn
ish, N. n.
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
or at once all the details he could
secure.
The main point in the ease of the
Armenian is whether she is an actual
member Of the British navy as a troop
ship or horse ship. She could be such.
either by having been taken owe by
the government itself for that purpose
OF by the government itself having
chartered the ship. and therefore max
ing 1t a warship subject to attack on
sight by German wal 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 S.S25 gross tons and has a length
OF 512.5 feet and a beam of 59.a feet.
When she sailed from Newport News
she was in command of Capt. John
Trickey.