The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-25
Discipline Was Perfect on the
Doomed Ship.
Most of Soldiers Were Asleep
When Blow Came.
U-BOAT ESCAPED UNSEEN
$50 Americans Were on Board
the Lost Ship.
Several Oklahoma Men in the
List of Lost.

London, May Z0.-Wl I'M Tic cAScP7
ton of fifty-three American soldiers
all the persons on board the British
troop ship Moldavia, which was tor
pedoed and sunk Thursday morning,
were saved and have been landed at a
southern British port. No otflcers
names are among the list of missing
and it contains the names of only two
non-commissioned officers.
Less than fifteen minutes after the
British armed merchant troop ship
MoIdavia with American troops on
board had been torpedoed off the
southeast coast of England on Thurs
day morning virtually every man had
gone over the sides of the vessel into
the life boats.
Edwin and Clyde Bosley of North
Troy, Vermont, leaped from the deck
and were drowned. Had it not been
for this the losses which are given OF
ficially as fifty-six American soldiers
would have been confined to those
killed by the explosion of the torpedo;
The Bosley brothers were on guard
when the ship was struck Search
was made for them, but they were
not seen after they jumped over
board.
Washington Gives Out List.
Washington, May 25.-The war de-
partment today gave out the names oI
fifty-three members of Company b.
Fifty-eigIth United States infantry
Fourth division, missing from the
torpedoed British steamer Moldav1a-
The names follow:
Corps Fred Chappell, Philadelphia. Pa. ;
Roy. H Shenk. Lancaster: Pa,i Pvts, oscar scar
8laakweii 81 ATmsIronf Hominy. fpod Okla George D.
North Troy, VI; Edwin W: Bosley, North
Mimi: Walter q. Bracken. Saint Cloud
Minn.; William A. Rrown; HoMytsvile MSd1le
Joseph p CaIlan, Milwaukee, Wis; Fred
p Canwel Fall Giyer' Cn Mass Mass; LOUIS Tisns "
ing. Grafton. Wis: Virgil c. Cook. Hobart
Okla; william ! Croatt; Port Washington
Herman w Dierks. Braunfels. Tex. Con
rad Excl, West Allis. Wis: Fred Gierhardt
Wis; Redwsld Gottenberg, Pigeon Falls
Wis: Giuseppe Graci. Licati. Italy ;
Charles F. Hackler. Millville,, Cal; Thad. had
Johnson Martins Mill. Tex; Isador NJ.
Kneip. st. Paul. Mimi; John Kobus. Mis-
Henry c. Lading. Strausburg: ILL.,. John s.
Larsen, Chicago; Barney r; Williams.
Dixon. Ky; Frank LewandGski: wa Chicago:
Anton w Lundell. South Chicago James
G. Mccarthy, Boston: Frank Mckinney
III: Rudolph Mike. Depere. Wis: Jesse
Milone. oIney, Ill. Frank o'Dell blythe
vile, Ark.: Emil j. bOSn. Ldkln. n. ID. !.
Frank Roux. Rice Lake. Wis. Lee Reaser
Cedarville. w. Va; Walter q. Sautter New
Hartford. n. Y: John Schuch. Portsmouth
Ohio: Joseph Sheman. Fort Totten, N. n. !;
Lewis p. Spies. Nelson. Wis; Ray Swartz,
Pleasant HILL Ohio: Maurice G. Sweetland
Albany. n. Y; Willow Trapp. Arbor Vitoe,
Wis; Edward N. Weber, Tolley. n. d.
4SO Americans on Board.
The Moldavia carried 4S0 American
soldiers of the Fifty-eighth infantry.
All those reported lost belonged to
Company B.
The Moldavia was struck at a. M
There was bright moonlight. but the
submarine was not seen before the
attack. Efforts were made to keep
the ship af1oat. She sank in about
an hour.
There was no panic and the trans
fer of the soldiers and seamen to the
destroyers was made without hitch
Soldiers Lost All.
The soldiers lost all their belong
ings except the clothing they wore
but were reoutfitted when they land
ed at channel port. All were given
temporary leave.
The Moldavia was a steel twin
screw steamer of $500 tons. built IN
1908. She was sos feet long. had
a beam of 5S.S feet and a draught of
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