New Britain herald., 1916-03-25
AMERICANS ABOARD
 STEAMER IN PERIL Daughter Of Wealthy U. 5. Citizen
 Has Her Leg Broken TORPEDO, PARIS REPORTS
Peaceful Passenger. Vessel. Damaged By Explosion in English Channel WatertiSht Compartments Kept Her AflOat Until Assistance Arrived.

crosschannel steamer Sussex, which was seriously damaged yesterday after noon near the French coast, was towed into Boulogne early today, ac- cording to a despatch to the Central News.
 Information received at Dover states that 1t is now regarded as certain that some lives were lost on the vessel, probably by the explosion which caused the damage. A few of the res- cued passengers are being brought to Dover, but the majority of those who were taken off the steamer by the res cunng vessels will be landed in France.
 The London, Brighton and South Coast Railway company officials say that the passenger list of the Sussex shows that there were twenty-five Americans aboard.
 American Woman Injured.
 Miss Baldwin, daughter of 8 prom inent American resident of Paris was injured seriously on the Sussex. Miss Baldwin's father and mother also were on board the vessel. All have been taken to Boulogne. In addition to other injuries, Miss Baldwin's leg was broken.
 Miss Alice Ruiz of Colorado, and Wilder G. Penfield of Merton College, Oxford, are other Americans who were saved
 Edward Huxley, president of the | United States Rubber Export Co.,, and Francis E. Drake, European manager l of the company. are among the Am l ericans rescued from the Sussex. They | nrt no O
 life, including probably several Amer jeans.
 | According to official information | from the admiralty this morning, be- 1 tween ninety and 100 passengers of the Sussex have been landed at Dover and about 250 passengers and mem bers of the crew in France. Last nights despatches said there 1 were 3S6 passengers on the Sussex and d crew of about fifty, indicating that seventy-tive or more persons on the Sussex have not been accounted for.
 The chief engineer of the Sussex was killed by the explosion and the purser was wounded seriously.
 American Is Missing
 An American whose name is not known to survivors who have reached London was talking with the Baldwin family. close to the captains bridge, when the explosion occurred. He has not been seen since that time and is supposed to have been lost.
 The explosion occurred at about 8 D. m., when the Sussex was an hour and a half out of Folkestone The wireless apparatus was destroyed and no help arrived until nearly midnight. Had it not been for her watertight compartments the Sussex would have sunk, and the loss of life would have been heavier.
 A number of Americans cross the channel by almost every passenger steamer, most of them on business Bookings are not made in advance for particular steamers. Passengers hav- ing passports entrain at London and their names are taken when they go aboard steamers. A large number of Americans obtained permits to go to France during the last week and it is a virtual certainty that a number of them were on the Sussex
 Mine or Torpedo.
 Opinion of passengers of the Sussex is divided as to whether the vessel was OanlaSeu Dy d fllue UT tt LOrDeQO. The explosion occurred just ahead of l the captains bridge and tore the | front part of the steamer to pieces, 1 killing or injuring a number of per- 1 sons. Many were wounded severely ] by flying splinters.
 The admiralty states that 250 sur l vivors have been landed in France 1 and between 90 and 100 at Dover As !! there were 3S6 passengers and about | 30 men in the crew, 75 or more per- sons are still missing.
 The Sussex carried 2 life-boats and several rafts. The life boats were 1
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