New-York tribune., 1918-02-09
Bodies of 126
Soldiers Found
Great Military Funeral Will
Be Held in London; Brit
ish Think Germans Will
Be Surprised at the Way
This Country Takes Its
First Disaster

AoSOON. Feb. 8.-One hundred and
1orty-seven Americans lost their lives
IN the sinking Of the transnor+ T,s
canla. The bodies of 1926 Am.r;.
soldiers have been recovered. The tota,
loss of life was 166.
These are the latest available f.r,o.
on the Tuscania disaster as annou,o,d
by the British Admiralty to-niebt of
the 2'4o1 persons on the troop SHIN
.'i'' were Americans, according to the
admiralty records. Up to to. riobr
1850 persons, including 113 Americas
omcers and 1912 men, were reported
saved. Among the remaining Survivors
are sixteen officers and 1873 men of the
luscanla's crew, and six passengers
List of Names Lost
Inc list Of Americans on board the
luscanla went down with the shin 90
cording to advices from an Irish nov
wnere some of the Survivors have beer
landed, and SO it will be Impossible. -
ascertain the names of those lost unt;,
ehe names of the survivors have hesn
Taoleo TO the War Department a.
! Washington 'e"' d.
another group of survivors. includ-
ing Captain Mclean and several 49,
can members of the crew arr;vid -
day in Glasgow, according to adv adu;cD. ~
from that city. Altogether. l4S sur.
vlvors we're landed on the Scottish
| coast: VI this number 1874 belonged tn
the Cnlted States army. One officer ami
.s,"ehty-uVe men are remaining where
they landed, the reports add. to At
tend TO the funeral arrangements for
the American dead
Military Funerals Planned
1t was announced to-day tha. ar
can and British officials in London for
great military funerals for the Tus-
cania's dead
Both American and British officers
among the survivors testified TO-DAY to
the courage of the American soldiers
IN the presence of death, and their per
feet discipline as the vessel slowly
settled beneath them in the darkness.
while the British press is lavish in its
praise of their behavior.
When the survivors arrived in Glas-
gov they were met by a throng Of
relatives and friends, and touching
scenes were witnessed by the CORE
spondents The survivors, the dis
patches say, were garbed in a miscella-
neous assortment of clothes, which thev
had picked up when landed from the
ship.
Captain Is Silent
Captain Mclean looked well despite
the great ordeal, but he emphatically
refused to make a statement. The en-
gine room storekeeper said that when
he found the Tuscania was likely to
float for some time he went down into
ms locker, rescued some cash and other
trinkets and got away on raft.
Captain Mclean last month was
awarded the Order of the British EN-
pire, on the recommendation of the
Board of Trade. He has been in the
service of the Anchor Line for twenty
years. and during the war has carried
many cargoes of munitions and food
stuffs safely through the danger zone.
Embassy yesterday indicated the loss
of 1Ol lives. while the British Ad-
mlralty's estimate was 210. This dis
crepancy now appears to have been due
to the fact that the figures supplied to
the embassy evidently did not include
the missing, of whom there are still
many.
How Soldiers Behaved
How American soldiers behaved
when they found that the boats as
signed to them on the T,:scania had
! been smashed is told by an American
officer who landed at an Irish port.
The officer said that his rlen behaved
as he had expected them to. Two full
boatloads under his command assem-
bled on the deck when the torpedo
S<, ,,,l l. l.
boats assigned them. Arriving at their
station, they found that both boats
had been destroyed.
"The men lined up on deck at attcn-
tion," said the officer land all pre-
served the utmost composure until a
destroyer came alongside and trans
ferred the men from the gradually
sinking deck
"We stood alongside until the last
man was taken off, who, as might be
expected, was the commander of the
ship. The patients in the ships nos-
pital, including several cases of scarla
tina and fever, were among the firss
taken off,
The correspondent Of The Associated
Press at an Irish port says the snr.
vivors of the Tuscania who are there
were greatly relieved to hear of the
safe arrival elsewhere of Major Benia
min F. Wade, of Washington, com
mander of contingent on the steamer
and hundreds of other American troops
Women Went Down Rope
The only two women on board. tfs
correspondents account says, Mrs. Cor
Inns and Mrs Parsons, went down =
rope into a lifeboat. The former saic
that when their boat left the Tuscanis
many of the troops had been throw
out in the lowering Of the next boat.
1--WE were Immediately SURROUNDED
by men in the icy water wearing lie
belts" she said. 1--WE had only tw,