Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-04-15
VIRGINIA SAILORS
BELIEVED LOST ON
AMERICAN COLLIER
Cyclops Was Last Heard
From by Navy Depart
lnent March 4.
HAD MANGANESE CARGO
FROM BRAZILIAN PORT
Lost Vessel Carried Fifty-Seven
Guests, Fifteen Officers
and 22l Employees.
b. S. CONSUL WAS on BOARD
pfnce Craft Left West Indies, She
Has Failed to Answer Numcr-
Gus Radio Calls.
s. CONSUL WAS ON BOARD
Since Craft Left West Indies, She
Has Failed to Answer Numcr-
Gus Radio Calls.
tBy Associated Press J


WASHINGTON. April l4-Twenty-
rom Richmond. are missing and pre-
urned TO be lost at sea in the Ameri-
an collier Cyclops, =h:cA the Navy
Department announced to-day had no,
cen heard from since March 4. The
sichm ond boys are
Reginald St. c. Bosher. next OF kin.
william T. Boshcr. OF s22 North Twca-
!eth Street. machinist.
James 3 Hakc, son OF Benjamin s.
lake, OF 532 Nicholson street.
Dewey Hobson Herring. next Of kin.
arnes Z. Herring. Of Ginter Park.
The big collier Cyclops. carrying
fty-scvcn passengers, fifteen officers
nd 22l men in her crew, has been
vcrdue a, an Atlantic port since
iarch l3. The Navy Department an
.ounced to-day that she was last re-
'ortcd a. a West Indian Island March
and tina, extreme anxiety is enter
aimed as 70 her safety. The vessel
vas bringing cargo o! manganese
rom Brazil.
Maurice Gottscha!k, Unitcd States
onsu!gcncral al R!o &c Janeiro. was
ne only civilian among the passcu-
gers on the collier. the others being
wo naval i.cutcnant5 and fttY-tour
aval enlisted men returning 10 tho
nitcl states. The Cyclops was com
nandcl by Lieutenant Commander q.
Is WOrlcy. United States naval reserve
orce.
rho Cyclops icft the West Indies
ia one oG her two engines damaged.
ut the department. said this fact
would not have prevented her from
communicating By radio, and al! CT
or,s 10 reach her by that means have
een unsuccessful. y thorough search
the course which she would have
oiiowed iU coming 10 port has been
made, and continues, II WAS announced.
There have been no reports o. Ger
uan submarines or raiders IN the 10
'Ality III which tho collier was. the de-
,artmcnt's statement said. Tho weather
.ad not been stormy and could hardly
AVE given tho collier trouble.
The fact that the collier had been
u!sa!ng nearly month became know.
ere Thursday. April IL The naval
,cEsor requested tho press not to pub
ish the fact, on tho ground that TO
tatc The fact She was overdue might
Expose ;he Cyclops 10 submarine or
6other enemy attack while she might
pc disabled on the high seas. The off,
ial announcement By the Navy De-
7artment to-day does not give the ship
lup for lost, hut merely says: The
navy Department feels extremely
anxious as 10 her safety" The state
3ncnt follows:
NAVY DEPARTMENT ISSUES
STATEMENT REGARDING SHIP
Tho United States ship Cyclops,
3navy collier OF 1900 tons dispiacc-
Fnent, loaded with a cargo Of manga
tueac. last reported a one OF the West
Indian Islands on March ana since
|hcr departure from tina; port no trace
1of her nor any information concern
1ins her has been obtained. Radio calls
10 the Cyclops from all possible pointa
have been made. and vessels sent to
Isoarch for hor along her probable
route and areas in which she might
|be, with no success.
NO wc!lfoundcd reason can be
given to explain the Cyclops being
Overdue, no radio communication with
or trace of her has been had since
leaving the West Indian port. The
weather In the area In which tho YES
sol must have passed has not been bad.
and could hardly have given tho
|Cyciops trouble. While raider or sub
linarinc could be responsible for her
loss. there have hccn no reports that
would indicate the presence OF either
IN the locality in which the Cyclops
was
1T was known that one OF the two
|cncincs OF tho Cyclops was injured,
duccd speed. with one engine com
fect on her ability to Communicate by
wore totally disabled the ship would
ho capable of using the radio plant.
Tim search for the Cyclops still con-
iinucs. but the Navy Department feels
extremely anxious as to her safety"
MEN FROM THIS SECTION
AMONG VESSELS CREW
The names Of people from this sec
tion on board the Cyclops follow: g.
w. Woricy, lieutenant commander. 523
pennsylvania Avenue. Norfolk; :. Kon-
atovcl. ensign. l22 York street. Nor
folk Amos Marccllus Porter. ship
filter, Hanover, Va; Robert Hardy
Powers. painter, Il. +. -. ., South Ashe-
willie. n. c.; William stuart Sothcrn,
electrician, 705 North Church Street,
Spartansburg, S. G.. George Henry All
red, fireman. RandlcmaD, \. c.; Charles
Spruill Ashhcc. Ir. seaman, Berkicy,
Va; Reginald st. Clare Borhcr, seaman
a23 North Twentieth Street, Richmond:
William Bryan Brooks. seaman, II. l..
u. 5, Roanoke; Carl Il. Clausen. oiler,
102 York Street Norfolk: Isaac Dancy,
lCOnlinued ON Second PaCeI