Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-02-08
Rice Lake, Stanley and Other
Neighboring Cities Repre-
sented ON Sunken
Tuscania
U-BOAT SENDS TRANSPORT
TO BOTTOM OF THE SEA
Wisconsin and Michigan Men on Way
TO Battlefield Plunged to Death
by German Sub

At ?: 30 this afternoon partial list
of the missing men from the Tuscania
was sent over the wires. They were:
Benjamin III. Brown, sergeant, Bar
ron.
Carl Nj. Anderson, corporal. Barron.
Claude Bucllmaster, corporal, Bar
ron.
James Karlburn, corporal, Haugeil.
Chas. A. JOanis, Washburn.
Arthur Wiley, sergeant, Washburn.
Fred III. Caspar, corporal, Washburn.
III. j. Almer Swanson, Mason.
Lee Milton BOyden, Cumberland.
Edward V. Potter, clerk, Owen.
Melville A. ArnesOn, Private, Alb
b0ttsf0rd
Francis Sermstahl, Colby.
Jacob w. Kramer, AbbOttsfOrd.
Newell w. Craig, Owen.
The latest reports are that 101 men
were lost of which 80 were soldiers
and 81 civilians. The Tuscania was
sunk Tuesday night at the head of the
channel between the north part of
Ireland and Scotland, by a German
submarine
In the list of men on the ship the
name of Chas. S. Felton, of Bruce, APP
pears and so far as known he is the
only one from the county.
No other LadySmith or Rusk county
man was on the sunken Tuscania, so
far as could be learned late this after
noon. No unit in which there are men
from this county was on board 1t is
possible that some man from the west
end of the county or some one who has
been a resident of the county, was in
the company from Rice Lake or in the
Forestry regiment. The latter was re-
cruited from the lumbermen from all
over the north Of Wisconsin, Mime
sofa and Michigan.
The Tuscania was a British member
of the Anchor line. of 14,34S tons and
conveyed by British destrOyers. manned
by a British crew.
On board were the units from the
332nd Division from Camp Macarthur
going to France to prepare the camp
for the regular branches of the mill
tary service. These were Wisconsin
and Michigan troops. The units from
this section were:
10th Supply Train was made up of
men from the 4th, 9th and 9th Wiscon-'
sin regiments of National Guard, re-
cruited at Chippewa Falls, Kenosha.
Wautoma, Rice Lake, New London and
Marshfield. If any men from Rusk
county were in this train they are not
scheduled in the lists on file mt the
county clerks office.
Harry Burnham. brother of Miss
Evelyn Burnham, of Ladysmith, is be-
lieved to have been on the ship as he
was a member of Truck Co. E. 10th S.
II. which is the Rice Lake unit. Chip
pewa Falls papers last night reported
63 men in the different companies from
that city. Eau Claire reports only
one man on the transport.
Ladysmith men are either at Waco
still or in Jersey City waiting for
transports The sons Of Jake Speich,
Warren Moore, and II. W. Richardson,
of Hawkins, are in the 127th which
on Wednesday was still at New York
waiting for transports.
Some Of the survivors were landed
at Islay Scotland and the names cabled
at once to Washington This is the
first great disaster on the sea to
transport going east. Another ship of
the Cunard Gne which had taken sol
diers to France and was homeward
bound, the Adrania. 19.400 tons was
reporter tolpedoed by a submarine off
the Newfoundland coast
Stanley was represented by Is men
in the 10th Supply train some of
them members of the fourth regiment
H.. III l..