Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-02-09
MANY bOD|fS UF AMERICAN TROOPS
 WASHED ASHORE All Praise High Courage Shown By Troops Dur
 ing Disaster. OFFICIAL REPORTS ARE STILL MISSING Only Detailed News Reaching Amer- ica Comes In News Dispatches
 Obtained From British
 Admiralty.

Associated Press War Summary).. Latest figures available on the loss of lilc in the torpedoing of the troopship Tuscania indicate that 166 persons are missing of whom 147 were Americans. This estimate was furnished to The Associated Press Friday night by the British admiral ty, with the information that 2,235 persons had heen saved. Among them were 113 officers and 1917 of the American foresters, engineers, supply train men, military police and aero quits, a total of 2,030. As the ships company had included 2,177 American, only 19 missing remained to be apportioned among the 21S members of the British crew and six passengers. According to the ad- miralty's figures, the total number of persons on the Tuscania was 2,401.
 American officers among the sur vivors testified to the courage of their men while the acute emrgncy of tn ships sinking in the night with no assurance that the German sub- marines would not send another death dealing torpedo to hasten her
 
 British officials likewise praise the discipline and steadfastness of the American S and tine London press is lavish with encomium of their stoi- cism.
 An Irish Port, Feb. 8.-A small fishing traWler returned to this port this morning without the 142 Ameri- ,o% 4-1- from the barren northerly shore which the Americans had reached on Shree lifeboats, IA hours after the Tuscania was sunk by a German sub- marine. The skipper of the trawler. told the British commodore here that the American captain in charge of the party refused to embark his men on the trawler because the little vessel did not carry lifeboats sufficient to hold all the troops in case the trawler was torpedoed.
 This party. according to the cap- tain of the traWler, consisted of two captains and 40 men who reached the shore short distance from the point where the bodies of A Americans were washed ashore yesterday. The trawler had made perilous journey to reach the Americans. The sea was choppy, but the trawler kept her course until she reached the point where the Americans were marooned.
 On the arrival of the trawler, the British authorities sent large steamer to bring the Americans to Glasgow. This vessel had sufficient lifeboats to take care of the men in case she should run afoul of an un- der water boat.
 126 SOldiers' Bodies Recovered. London. Feb. S.-The British ad- mralty informed The Associated Press that the latest figures avail able on the Tuscania disaster showed that 2.235 persons had been saved, and that about 1e6 are missing. The saved, it was added. included 113 American officers and 1917 men, 16 officers and 183 men of the crew and six passengers. The bodies of 126 American troops have been recovered.
 Of the 148 survivors landed on the Scottish coast, 134 belong to the Uni ted States army, including seven of ficers. Of these one officer and 9 men are remaining where they landed to attend to the funeral arrangements for the American dead.
 Official Details Still Lacking. Washintgon, Feb. S.-Seventy-two hours after the British liner Tus- cania. laden with American troops and travelling with large convoy, was torpedoed and sunk off the Irish coast. the war department tonight still was unable to relieve the anxiety of relatives and friends of those on board by announcing the list of sur viNors. Even an official statement on the circumstances attending the sinking was lacking, and official fig ures still failed to accord with the press accounts of the number lost. The war department has no official report of losses to change the esti- mate of yesterday that 2l0 persons
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