The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-02-14
MAY keep A LONG Vigil
War Department Has Given Out No Of.
ficiaI List of Missing May Be Many
Days Before Such List Is Com
piled---J. Mitchell Reported Saved.

henOSn3 people interested IN Ihe
fate of members Of Old Company M
who were known to have been aboard
the steamer Tuscania and who had not
been reported as saved took a new hope
today when the War Department gave
out new list Of survivors. The names
of none of the Kenpshans reported as
"missing" appeared in these lists but
the fact that there were men who had
been reported missing who are now re-
ported as survivors" raised new
hope. kilograms from Washington
also declared that the War department.
has not as yet given out any ''official
list" of the men who are supposed to
be missing from the Tuscania and that
short lists of survivors had been com
ing in from time to time from isolated
points Congressman Ell. A. Cooper and
Sydney Maddox sent word from Wash
Ington this morning that the names of
no further survivors from Kenosha had
been reported this morning.
The name of Private John Mitchell
was included in the list of missing'
which was published in many papers
this morning. Private Mitchell is listed
among the survivors in Kenosha and
his name was placed on that list fol
lowing the receipt of message from
the Adjutant General stating that he
wns among the men saved.
Friends Of the Kenosha boys who
were aboard the Tuscania still haunt
the telegraph offices hopeful that they
will receive cablegrams direct from
tic boys. These people are advised
that it is probable that the boys are
far from a cable Office and even il they
lad he desire to send a cable home it
would be very difficult for them to do
it. Reports Of the sinking of the Tus-
cania indicate that the Kenosha BOYS
lost all of their personal baggage and
many of them are now making their
way to the American lines in France
clad in uniforms furnished them by
English army officers
1t is probable that letters from the
boys will not reach Kenosha for an
other fortnight These letters will be
sent from the various Irish points
where the soldiers were landed and be-
fore they are forwarded they must be
examined and passed by the rigid Eng
lsh censors.
Relatives Of Corporal Arthur Junker
and Private Karl Hultenius have not
given up hope of their being rescued
but of course they are very anxious.
Corporal Junker come of a family of
fighters. He was the only one of them
fighting under Old Glory but it is
known that he had four uncles who
were fighting in the German army.
Members of the family have had no
report from these men in some time
and it is possible that some of them
have fallen in the great battle front in
Flanders toward which Corporal junk
er was going when he was caught in
the disaster.
Many stories of the sinking of the
Tuscania are drifting through from
Ireland by way of the various press as
sociations but thus far none of these
stories have been told by Kenosha sur
vivors. Kenosha people are waiting
anxiously for the official report of
Lieutenant Asbury Vale in regard to
the sinking of the transport. It is ex-
peeted to bring intimate facts of the
experiences of the men in his command.
Undoubtedly many of the Kenosha
boys had thrilling escapes and the re-
pert of their commanding officer is ex-
pected to tell of them.
The list of missing is still placed at
considerable over three hundred in the
unofficial press reports but the War
Department declared today that it had
found no reason to change its original
estimate that there were but 210 men
missing from the Tuscania. Of these it
was said that 119 were soldiers and 81
civilians and members of the crew.
Thus far no names have been given as
missing" from members of the crew
or of civilians.