The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-27
WAS TORPEDOED


 no manner of doubt tht the channel steamship Sussex was torpedoed without warning" says official statement is sued here tonight based upon affidavits
 made by American survivors.
 John Hearley Albany, N. Y, press association correspondent, deposes the statement saving that on Friday about , o'clock in the afternoon. while dozen Americans were watching from the bridge, d great explosion occurred in the forepart of the vessel without warning and that. three Americans, at least, saw the passage of the torepdo'' Professor Baldwin, wife and daughter l have disappeared.
 l Tingle W. Culbertson declared he saw Miss Baldwin stretched on the deck wounded in the head.
 1 Samuel $. Bemis of Harvard Univer- sity deposes that the explosion oc- cured without the slightest warning g l to indicate there was the least danger and that many persons were thrown into the sea, that some,were killed and some wounded, that he saw bodies on the bridge of the Sussex and that while being rescued he saw two persons drown.
 These dispositions are confirmed by the American men and American women who took passage aboard the Sussex and whose names follow:
 John Hearley Albany N Y.; Mrs. Lillian Hard, New York; Mrs. Clareance Handyside, New York; Mrs. Gertrude Warren, St. Louis; Miss Gertrude Barnes. New York; Mir. and Mrs. Beer, New York; Mrs. Dorothy Hilton and daughter, Edna, New York; Samuel Remis, Bedford. Mass; Tingle w. Gull bertson, Lewisburg, Me-; Charles T. and George Crocker, Jr.. Pitcher, Mass. Wilder P. Penfield, Hudson, Wis. and Miss Alice Ruiz Lyon. Col. These last five were enrolled in the American Red Cross ambulance. A certain number of saved have been taken to Dover. NO SIGN OF MINE The great majority of survivors or the Sussex, both Americans and those of other nationalities, who have reached France. assert the vessel was torpedoed and that there is no ques- tion of any warning having been given. None of them saw a mine or indications of one, whereas the greater part Of those whose stories have been given assert that they saw the wake of a torpedo. Count B.. Belgian army officer, who was on the Sussex. states that the reason periscope was not observed was that near the Sussex was a merchantmen which bore on it's hull the name Nieuport XIX He states that | this vessel approached the Sussex and | screened the submarine as soon as the lcxplcsion occurred. According to this account, the Newport XIX, a Belgian steamer seized by the Germans, sailed
 away without lending aid.
 | The total number of victims is still
 unknown. It is estimated variously at 1 70 to S0 Of the Americans, it now is
 regarded as certain that Miss Elizabeth | Baldwin was killed. It is believed her father Prof. J. Mark Baldwin, was lost
 and that possibly Mrs. Baldwin perished. NONE AT BOULOGNE l An official list of Sussex survivors, pre- pared at Boulogne, does not contain the
 names of a number of Americans who were on board. Some of these are known l to have been landed in England. It is said all the Americans brought to Bou- 1 logne are included, but the list apparently ] is incomplete, as it does not contain the l names of some Americans who signed the deposition indicating the Sussex was tor pedoed.
 l The official list of American survivors 1 follows:
 | Edna S Harde, Lillian D. S. Harde, 1 Miss Gertrude Barnes. Mrs. Dorothy Hi- l ton, Miss Edna Hilton, Henry Beer and 1 Ida Beer of New York; Mrs. Gertrude 1 w. Warren, St. Louis; Daniel Sargent Wellesley, Mass; John H. Hearley. AL
 bany. N. Y.; Samuel S. Bemis. Bedford. Mass; Tingley w. Culbertson, Lewis
 burg, Pa.; Alice Ruse. Lyon. Conn. l In addition to the Americans the list 1 gives the names of large number of French. English, Belgian and Italian sur vivors, we'll as some Russians and | Spaniards.