Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-02-15
u. S. MEN
DIE ON TRANSPORT
SUNK BY UBOA1
LOO Survivors From TuScania
Landed in Ireland.
NO NAMES ARE REPORTED.
Liner Carrying American Soldiers to
France Is Attacked by Submarine
Off the Irish coast-First
Loss for U. S.

Washington, Feb. THE United
States transport Tuscania, with 2.179
United States troops or board, has
been torpedoed and sunk off the Irish
coast.
Approximately one thousand are
missing, according to an official report
received by the wal department.
Gen. Frank Mcintyre, army censor.
announced that names of survivors and
missing would be the next news made
public concerning the disaster.
f,1o0 Survivors Landed.
Eleven hundred survivors have been
landed at Buncrana and Larne, Ire
land.
The names of no survivors or men
missing have been reported.
Additional details, the war depart
ment announced, are promised.
This is the first American transport
bound for France that has fallen vic
tim to German submarines.
Official Statement.
The official announcement follows:
1.-THE war department has been off
cially advised that the steamship Tus-
cania was torpedoed and sunk and that
survivors numbering LOO, as far as
could be at that hour a%scertafned, were
landed at Buncrana and Larne, in Ire
land.
There was a total 2.179 United
States troops on this vessel. No list
of persons lost has been reported to
tbn war danor+uoD+ ond NJ ,o~ozoe
survivors was reported. Additional
particulars are promised as soon as
received"
The sinking is accepted here as
opening the combined sea and land of
fensives heralded these past weeks in
the German newspapers.
That the U-boats which are under
stood to have been restocking and re-
vfctualing for weeks at the German
bases intend directing their drive
against American-laden transports has
been the expectation set forth in the
last several war summaries of Secre-
tary Of War Baker. Hindenburg's pur-
pose, all recent advices have shown, is
to strike with the full force Of the
Prussian mailed fist before the full
power of the United States could be
struck in the war.
Tuscania a British Ship.
The Tuscania, it was stated at the
war department, was not only a British
ship; but at the time of the attack was
under British control, armed and
manned by British sailors, and armed
guards.
The sinking: of the Tuscania repre-
sents apparently the largest casualty
list since the United States entered the
war.
The identity of the troops on board
the vessel is still unknown. The Tus-
eania was a Cunard liner in the trans
port service and was one of the yes
sells loaned the United States by Eng
land. 1t is understood that she was
formerly engaged in.the transportation
of troops from Canada to France.
The Tuscania'was a steel twin screw
Anchor line steamer of 14.34S tons.
She was built in 1914 by A. Stephen
& Sons, Ltd, of Glasgow, Scotland, for
Henderson Bros, proprietors of the An
Choir line. She had four decks and a
shelter deck.
The liner was taken over by the
British government for transport serv-
ice some time ago. She IA one Of the
newest British liners, maving been
completed in 1914.
u. S. Ship Torpedoed; Six Die.
An Atlantic Port, Feb. 7.-Shipping
men received cables advices that the
American steamship Alamance had
been torpedoed off the English coast
Six lives are reported lost. None OF
them was an American.
The Alamance was owned by the
Garland Steamship company. She was
a ship of 5000 ons and carried a crew
of 80 men and a naval gun crew of %.
British Ship Lost With 81.
London, Feb. Loss Of a passen-
ger steamship in the channel was re
vealed by Admiralty Secretary McNa.
mara, replying to inquiries in the com
mons. Mcnamara reported the loss OF
IA men of a crew of %, and Is out OF
20 army and navy men aboard. Name
of the boat was not revealed. Neither
was fhe cauSe of fha sinking