The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-10-12
HUNDREDS GO TO
DEATH ON GREAT
ROCKS ALONG THE
SCOTTISH COAST
Transport Carrying Ameri-
can Soldiers Rammed
During Gale
BRITISH DESTROYER
SAVES HUNDREDS
Captain Calamity Places.
Vessel Alongside Trans
port Four Times
MEN LEAP TO DECK
OF LITTLE SHIP
Crippled Destroyer Makes
Port But Transport Hits
Rocky Cliffs
MEN LEAP TO DECK
OF LITTLE SHIP

An Irish Port, Oct. 12.-(By The
Associated Prsssl)-AnEsriean sot-
diers TO the number of 3s4 to 36e
perished when the british armed
mercantile cruiser, otran*o, and the
transport, Kashnnir, eollided in the
north channel between Scotland and
ireland last Sunday.
Three hundred American soldiers
and thirty French sailors and 266
members OF the crew of the otran-
TO have been landed az port in
Northern ireland. Sixteen other sur
Vivors have been picked up at lsIay'
More than 200 bodies had been re-
covered this morning and many OF
them have been buried.
The Otranto is a total wreck on
the island OF IsIay. The KashrT,i'
landed it's troops at Scottish port
without loss.
The troop ships eellided while
heavy storm waa raging and the
otranto, with a gaping hole in her
side, then drifted E'e'pIessIy toward
The rocky coast. I'D
IA British. Fort, Oct. TIA large
number OF American troops nave
been lost as the result of the sinking
of the transport ontario IN the NORM
channel between the Scottish ana
Irish coasts in a. collision with the
steamer Kashnair.
the Ontario after the collision was
dashed to pieces on the rocks off the
soiIth Scottish coast with a probable
loss of 872 American soldiers.
Three hundred and one men were
taken to Belfast by the British de-
stroyer Mounsey, the only Vessel
which made an attempt at rescue in
tbe terrifc gale when the Kashrnir,
another vessel in the convoy with
the Ontario. rammed the Ontario
amidship.
alive on the Scottish coast. or the
699 American soldiers on board the
Ontario, $40 were landed. Seventeen
were rescued alive at Islay, leaving
$40 unaccounted for.
The Ontario and the other vessels
OF the convoy were battling with the
heavy seas and high winds Sunday
morning. The storm was so severe
and the visibility so bad that the
Kashnir. a former Peninsular and
Oriental liner, crashed into the On
tario sduareIy amidships.
The Kashnir backed away badly
damaged but was able to make port,
AS the bows of the Kashmir were
pulled from the great hole in the
side of the Ontario. the water rush
ed in, but for time it did not serve
to stop the engines. The Ontario
tried to proceed b ut made no head
way against the gale in her crippled
condition.
Fires Are Put Out.
within a short time the water put
out her fires and the Ontario drifted
helplessly toward the rocky coast Of
Islay island where most of the Tus-
cania. victims met their death.
Thirty minutes after the crash the
British destroyer Mousey, herself
damaged by the heavy seas. appear
ed out of the haze in answer to the
distress calls OF the Ontario. When
the destroyer naneuvered to get
alongside, Captain Davidson Of the
Ontario, warned Lieutenant Craven,
commanding the destroyer, not to
make the attempt.
When it was seen that Craven
would make the attempt anyway the