Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1917-10-25
NAMES Of ANTILLES
DEAD ANNOUNCED
Official List of U-Boat Victims
Cabled by Pershing.
ST DEAD AND ITO RESCUED
Report Received at Washington
Throws No Light on Circumstances
of the Attack-No Torpedo
Sighted.

Washington, Oct. SiXty-seyen
lives were lost when the army trans
port Antilles went down last Wednes
day by the torpedo Of German Subma
rine. The official list Of casualties,
cabled by General Pershing, shows 81
lost, total survivors 10 and one unac-
counted for
The casualty list shows that not all
the lost were Americans The fire
men, Of whom many were probably
killed by the explosion, came princi-
pally from Spain and Portugal. Some
Of the nOncOmmiSSiOneda army officers,
among the American troops lost, were
men Of foreign birth and now have
mothers living in Germany. one in Ber
lin and the other in Oldenburg.
No Submarine Sighted.
General Pershing's report throws no
new light on the circumstances Of the
attack and so far as is known neither
q submarine nor q torpedo was seen.
The list Of enlisted men and others
from the middle West follows:
Private Ernest Eggert, infantry !;
nearest friend, Miss Edna Barnett, 500
West Thirty-fourth court, Chicago. Pri
vate John Bright, infantry; nearest
relative, Mike Bright, 1241 Lake street,
Milwaukee. Private Arthur Erhart, III
fantry; FerryWash, Newport, K. l.
Sergt otto Kieber infantry; father
Do1,I l. lobor ATnJlliccba Ctr.aGcn C0c1
Berlin, Germany Corporal Abraham
SWartzberg, infantry; New York, N. Y.
Private Roy COttrell infantry; moth
err Mrs. Alfred COttrell, Clinton, Ind.
Private Lee w. Nelson infantry; cOu-
sin, Max J. NoWacZyk, Al Prescott ave-
nue. Grand Rapids. Mich. Private .Ior-
gan p. Lock, infantry; Kansas City,
Mo Private Carl G. MOrSel1, infan-
try; father, George MOrSell VeSter-
brOghe, AZ Copenhagen, Denmark. Pri-
yate Burnett Hamilton, infantry ;
Grapevine, Tenn. Private William L..
Faust, field artillery; Stony Creek
Mills. Pa. Private Edward l.. Echel,
field artillery; address unknown.
Private J. Mclaughlin, infantry; Wo-
burn, Mass Private NeptOln BObin,
transport worker; East Savannah, Ga.
C. L. Tusburne, electrician, L. 5. N;
no address. II. f. Watson, electrician,
L. S. n; no address. j. {. Mckinney,
seaman, U. S. n; no address. j. w.
Hunt, seaman. L. s. n; no address.
Private Melvin n. Bradbury, medical
Dr.iv
Bosworth. medlcaJ corps; Nilburn, n.
J. Seaman E. Erfksen; sister, A. Nil
sen, Lake Myles, Ia.
The Antilles was tOrpedOed on
Wednesday while returning to this
country from France. She was under
convoy at the time of American patrol
vessels.
Neither the torpedo which sent her
to the bottom nor the destroying sub
marine was sighted.
The men had little chance for their
lives. Struck abreast of the engine
robm bulkhead, the Antilles sank like
plummet going down in five min
uteS.
Soldiers and Sailors Die.
Thirteen soldiers and four men from
the navy are gone, and with them 90
of the crew of the passenger steam
er. The Antilles was made an army
transport when it was determined to
send our forces abroad to fight in
France.
Daniels Issues Statement.
Secretary of the Navy Daniels au-
thOrized the following statements:
"The department is in receipt Of a
dispatch from Vice Admiral Sims,
which states that the steamship An
titles, an army transport, was torpe-
dOed on October II, while returning
TO this country from foreign service.
"ThiS vessel was under convoy of
American patrol boats at the time.
'The torpedo which struck the An
TILES was not seen nor was the sub
marine which fired it.
THE torpedo hit abreast of the en-
gine7room bulkhead, and the ship sank
within five minutes.
Zone hundred and Sixty-seven per-
sons out of about two hundred and
thirty-seven on board the Antilles
were saved. About seventy are miss
ing.
"All the naval officers and officers of
the army who were on board the ship
at the time were saved as were the
officers of the ship, with the exception
of three Junior engineer officers Four
of the enlisted naval personnel were
lost
There were about 33 of the army
enlisted personnel on board, of whom
II were saved"