Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-10-11
Soldiers and Sailors Mur- dered When Ticondenoga
 Is Torpedoed.
SHRAPNEL IS USED
 BY GERMAN SAILORS
Victims Rescued Tell More About "German Kultur"
 On High Seas.

An Atlantic Port, Oct. 1O,-
 Scores of American sailors and
 soldiers were killed or wounded
 D. sllrapnel fired by a German
 submarine after it had torpedo
 ed the steamship Ticonderoga,
 l.70O miles off the Atlantic
 coast. according to the story told
 ty twenty survivors who arrived
 here today aboard British
 freighter.
 Twenty survivors of the ship
 wounded or suffering from ex-
 posture were brought here today
 by a British vessel to which they
 were transferred by another yes.
 sel which picked them up.
 Others Perish.
 The remainder of those aboard the Ticonderoga said to number about 25O were reported to have perished.
 It was said that the ships boats were shelled by the submarine, ac- counting for the wounding among the survivors. Seventeen of these were American soldiers, detailed to care for horses the ship was transporting.
 They were transferred to the Brit ish freighter about five days ago. Ex- actly when and where the Ticonder- oga was tortedoed could not be ascer- tained on account of censorship re- strictions. She left an Atlantic port on Sept. P as a part of convoy. Presumably she fell victim to the U boat without other protection than kNprp fn r0- vious reports received by the navy department, she became separated from the rest of the ships and was not thereafter heard from.
 Fell Behind.
 The Ticonderoga was attacked, pre- sumably on Oct. when she fell be- hind her convoy because of engine trouble.
 According to the story of the sur vivors, the submarine was not sight ed until she had sent a torpedo crash ing into the side of the ship.
 The torpedo did not strike vital spot, however, and the captain crowded on full steam in an effort to escape, at the same time ordering the gun crews into action against the submarine, which appeared about a mile off.
 "Our gun crews did not fire more than five or six shots," one of the survivors said.
 "The forward gun was shot away almost at once.
 "The after gun and it's crew was done for almost as quickly
 "Then the men went to the boats, but it was no use as the flying shrap- mel was spraying the decks and men fell in scores, either killed or badly wounded"
 Life Boats Riddled. .. Another survivor declared thai all of the Ticonderoga's eight life boats with the exception of one were ria, dled with shrapnel before they could be launched. A number of men who tried to get into the eighth boat were Killed py shrapnel as they clambered over the {; side of the vessel he said. 'fInaiiy, this survivor continued, "one or our men in desperation swan close to the submarine and hailed an officer ask ing him in Gods name to stop firing.
 Answered With Shot.
 "The lieutenant who answered nm did so with a loaded revolver, saylng that if he did not swim back he would shoot him. oo $.
 "When our boat had only 20 men m it we were ordered alongside the sup marine and made to tie up while the smelling of the dead and dying on the sinking ship continued. ,..a
 "The leader of our boat was asKeu some questions which he refused to answer and suddenly the submarine submerged and only the parting o5 i the rope with which We were ,ieo prevented our going down wih-o,,o with t.: