The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-02-14
TORPEDO DESTROYS TUscANIA
OFF NORTHERN COAST OF
IRELAND.
1855 OF 1885 MISSING
TROOPS ON cUNARDER PRiNci-
PALLY WISCONSIN AND MICH
IoAN oUARDsMEN.

London, Feb. 9.-The British admir-
atty last night stated that the latest
figures available on the Tuscania dis
aster showed that 2,235 persons had
been saved and that about 166 were
missing. The saved, it was added, in
cluded 1873 American officers and a.917
American men, sixteen officers and
1873 men of the crew and six passen-
gers. The bodies of 126 American
troops have been recovered
OF the 14S survivors landed on the
Scottish coast 1874 belonged to the
United States army, including seven
officers. OF these one officer and
twenty-five men are remaining where
they landed to attend to the funeral
arrangements for the dead.
That Germany had Information OF
the coming of the transport Tuscania
and other vessels with important per-
sonages aboard, was the belief ex-
pressed by passengers on ships which
accompanied the torpedoed ship.
That a German submarine endeav-
ored to attack the destroyers while
the latter were engaged in rescue
work, is the statement made by an
American officer at an Irish port,
where a large number were landed.
THE U-boat which sank the Tus-
cania did a bad days work for Ger
many" said the London Express.
Americas mind was in the war be-
fore. Now her soul is enlisted against
the kaiser. Remember the Tuscania!
will be an irresistible call to the col
ors and battle cry"
An Irish Port, Feb. "a mass Of
swirling wreckage on the calm neck of
the sea along the Irish coast marks
the grave OF the Tuscania. A few
bodies of the hundred or more men
who perished have been washed
ashore, and some Of the injured now
in hospitals are expected to succumb.
The survivors. numbering about 1926.
are quartered in hotels. homes and
hospitals along the north Irish coast
Washington. Feb. 1.-THE first
American troop transport bound
abroad has been sunk by German
submarine. Approximately 101 Amer
ican soldiers perished- when the ship
went down. while 1896 or more were
rescued.
The transport sunk was the Tus-
cania, a Cunard liner lent to the
United States by the British govern
ment. which carried 2.179 American
soldiers as passengers. but was con-
voyed like a regular transport.
The scene of the disaster was off
the northern coast of Ireland. the sur
vivors being landed by the vessels of
the convoy at two neighboring Irish
ports. fifty miles apart.
The military units aboard the trans
port were:
Headquarters detachment and COM
panies d, E and of the Twentieth en-
gineers.
One Hundred and Seventh engineer
train composed of men from the First
battalion of Michigan engineers and
the First battalion of Wisconsin engi-
neers.
One Hundred and Seventh military
police from the Fourth and Sixth Wis
consin National Guard infantry.
One Hundred and Seventh supply
train, formerly from the Fourth. Fifth
and Sixth Wisconsin infantry.
One Hundred and Fifty-eighth aero
squadron.
Replacement detachments No. 1 and
No. 2 Of the Thirty-second division
(Michigan- wisconsin, with fifty-one
casual officers.
The information so far received does
rot indicate what members of these
units werc lost and what members
saved.