The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1918-02-14
Wisconsin and Michigan Guard
contingents Among Those
Lost on Tuscania.
.2,1s7 SURVIVORS LANDED
American Soldiers Lose Lives When
British Liner is Torpedoed OF
: Coast Of ireIand-Men Were
on Way to Battlefield In
France - Vessel Con-
voyed by British
Warships.

Washington, Feb. S.--Secretary Ba-
ker issues the following statement:
The sinking of the Tuscania brings
us face TO face with the losses Of war
In Its most relentless form. IL Is a
fresh challenge TO the civilized world
by an adversary who has refined, but
made more deadly, the stealth Of the
savage In warfare. We must win this
war and we will win this war. Losses
like this unite the country In sympathy
with the families of those who have
suffered loss; they also unite us to
make more determined our purpose to
press on.
AS rapidly as details come IN. they
will be given to the public. In order to
relieve anxiety where possible and
notice will be sent as promptly as pos
sible TO those whose sons and brothers
have been added to the nations heroic
dead"
Death Total Placed at 210.
London, Feb. S.-The Tuscania was
torpedoed ON Tuesday night. The loss
of life is placed at 30. according to the
British admiralty. The following Of
fetal communication was given out:
"The Anchor liner Tuscania, Capt.
J. l.. Henderson. was torpedoed on the
night Of February 3 off the Irish
coast. while carrying United States
troops.
IN..Il th.n ~ Inns A
number saved:
Omitted States military officers, f6;
men. 1885.
"Crew-Officers 10; men, 125.
Passengers, 3.
"Not specified. 30.
Total number aboard, 2,397. To-
tai number saved, 2,1S7.
The foregoing are approximate fig
ures, but as correct as can be given
at present"
The Tuscania remained afioat for
two hours after being torpedoed. .
The condition of some of the sur
vivors of the Tuscania was pitiable.
Many had cast aside all their clothes,
and had been swimming about for two
hours before being rescued.
Place Death List at 1863.
Washington, Feb. s.-Torpedoed and
sunk by German submarine, the Gu
nard liner Tuscania, bearing 2.179 Of
ficers and men of the Thirty-second
National Guard division, lies at the
bottom of the North Atlantic ocean
and at least 16S troopers-probably
more-are missing.
on the basis of figures reported TO
the war and state departments here
the missing would be 267; the figures
of the British admiralty, however,
placed the missing American troopers
at 16S.
There 10 every hope that the lower
number will prove 10 be correct. Brit
ish conveys near to the torpedoed ship
closed in quickly and did heroic work,
as the comparatively small loss shows.
The position of the Tuscanla on. the
north coast of Ireland, evidently head
ed for England, also was such that
a number of British patrol ships and
other vessels rushed TO its side and In
that way the loss was minimized.
Such reports as were at hand gave
no details of how the transport sup
pOsedly heavily conveyed. fell in with
the submarine. hut il was regarded as
more probable that the ship stumbled
on the submersible, rather than that
the disaster was the first shot In the
much-advertised German offensive
against the Zine of American troops
and supplies.
Wisconsin and Michigan Troops.
The troops, composed chiefly Of de
tachments of Michigan and Wisconsin
National Guardsmen, were travelling
under convoy of British warshlps.
Advices failed to refer 10 the fate OF
the members Of the Tuscania's crew.
Undoubtedly many of them were saved,
and when all reports are In officials
hope that the loss of life will be re-
markably small.
News Of the first great disaster In
the war TO Americas armed forces
came In a brief dispatch TO the war
department from London.
IL did not mention the possibility OF
further survivors, but hope was built
here upon the fact that all OF the 1911
were landed at two widely separated
Irish ports and indications that relief
vessels were at hand quickly.
The war department officials an