Bisbee daily review., 1917-02-08
British Ship California Sunk With Probable Loss of Life Of Coast of Ireland, U. 5. Consul Reports.
AMERICAN ABOARD
 IS REPORTED SAFE
Two Women and Several Chil- dren, Together With Mem bers of Crew Are Missing. Ship Sank Rapidly.
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WRof1iNS ON. FcD. I-COH-
 sui Frost at Queenstown cabled
 the state department tonight that
 the British passenger liner Cali
 fornia had been torpedoed with
 out warning off the Irish coast
 and that the one American known
 to have been on board was sare.
 Some of the passengers and the
 crew still were missing, including
 two women and several children.
 The captain of the ship was
 quoted as saying the submarine
 did not hail or give any warning
 before firing two torpedoes from
 a distance of three hundred yards
 and sending the California down.
 The American survivor was
 John A. Lee, of Montgomery, Ala,
 who is supposed to have been
 member of the crew.
 Nc Ame -icans on It?
 NEW YORK ioeh. 7.--No American citizens were among the thirty one passengers on the California, accord ing to officials of the Anchor line in this city. Records filed in accordance with neutrality regulations when ap- plicatiOns were made for passage, showed that while many of the per sons who sailed on the liner lived in the United States they were subjects of Great Britain. The belief was ex- pressed also that there were no Ameri- cans in the crew. A cable message received at the Anchor line offices in this city announced the sinking of the California and said that 160 survivors out of the total of 215 persons aboard the vessel had been landed. Nothing was said of the fate of the remaining 55.
 Consul Frost's report to the state department that there are thirty hospital cases" was construed to mean that the survivors suffered from extreme exposure in the open boats or injuries received in leaving the sinking vessel. The message did not state whether the California had been torpedoed or sunk Dy mine.
 Carried One Gun.
 The California, which sailed from New York for Glasgow January 29 was armed with a defense gun mount ed aft She was due in Glasgow to- day or tomorrow and in the absence of details as to her exact position when sunk, it was believed she must have been off the north of Ireland
 Was s,662 Ton Ship.
 The vessel, which was of S,662 tons. carried a full cargo believed to con- sist in part at least of war supplies. Under a recent ruling of Collector of Port Dudley Field Malone, details of cargo on board departing ships is and the agents of the Anchor line declined 10 divulge the nature of the shipments.
 The California was the first large passenger liner sunk since the pub lication of the recent German note defining new sea policy.
 The loss of the California leaves the Adriatic. Baltic and Cretic, also British passenger vessels now at sea to be heard from. the Baltc being due to arrive at Liverpool today.
 The California was one of four large twin screw passenger vessels built in 1907 for the Anchor line fleet. the others being the Cameronia, Gale lonia and Columbia. She was 470 feet long and was fitted up with all modern conveniences for the comfort of sea travellers.
 Wyoming Woman Aboard.
 CASPER, Wyo., Feb. Mrs. Alex ander Cuthill. a passenger on board he liner California, sailed two weeks lgo to visit her parents in Scotland. She is the wife of a foreman for a sheep grower. and a native of Scot and.
 Mrs. Cuthill's husband recently took put first naturalization papers and filed on a homestead claim near here. Mrs. Cuthill. who is 30 years of age. came to the United States four years
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