The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-10-12
116 LISTED MISSING
FROM TICONDEROGA
Two Officers Taken Prisoner
by U-BOat That Sank
Z. s. Transport.
FIRED ON FLAG OF TRUCE
Official Navy Report Confirms
Smelling Of the Helpless
Victims by Pirates.
Special Despatch TO THE srS.

/ Special Despatch to THE srN.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.-THE destruc-
ton OF another American vessel by
piratical U-boat under the most brutal
circumstances yet reported was detailed
to-day by the Navy Department In max
ing public details of how the U. S. S.
Ticonderoga was sunk on September 80.
Continued firing on the vessel after It
had been torpedoed and had displayed
| white blanket as flag of truce, with
the deliberate murder OF several men,
bers OF the crew through cutting them
| adrift 100 miles from land on q fiimsy
raft. stood out in this latest atrocity.
In addition to its regular navy crew
the Ticonderoga had on board a num-
Der of enlisted men of the army. The
Navy Department made public pltifully
short list of survivors and published an
| extremely long list OF 116 missing Only
three officers and Ave enlisted men have
been landed safely.
Those known TO have been saved in
clude Lieut. Commander James J. Madi-
son, whose wife, Mrs. Ethel Madison,
lives In West Hoboken. and Ensign Gus
tave Ringelman, whose mother, Mrs.
Emma Rngelman. lives at 6S1 East
164th street, New York.
Lieut.. Frank l.. Muller of California
and Lieut.. Junior grade) Junius II.
Fulcher of North Carolina. were taken
prisoners by the submarine.
Tells Details Of Attack.
A first hand report of the attack
and the sinking was made to the Navy
Department to-day by Chief Quarter
master George $. Tappley of the eight
survivors thus far known. The Ticon-
deroGa was attacked at 30 o'clock in
the morning, having fallen about fifteen
miles back Of Its convoy through lack of
speed.
When Tappley reached the bridge It
was already aflre, two shots from the
submarine having hit there. The third
shot from the U-boat. which was then
only about 200 yards away. carried
away one of the guns on the Ticonderoga.
The attack occurred In midocean. 100
miles from shore. The vessel was bound
for Europe.
The submarine submerged under fire
from the remaining guns of the doomed
ship. reappearing in twenty minutes two
miles away. The U-boa. started she'll
ing the American ship then with shrap-
mel. next firing torpedo. which struck
about amidships, and the ship started to
settle. The shrapnel fire was extremely
effective. Kidding nearly all of the small
boats of the Ticonderoga
At i:l5 O'Clock, two hours after the
first attack. the captain with fourteen
enlisted men was put in the last boat
on the vessel and the boat lowered.
That was the only boat to get clear,
Tapp!ey reported. When 1t left there
were still thirty-fve or forty men
OIL the doomed ship and by order of the
executive officer a white blanket was
tied to one Of the masts. but the SUBJ
marine continued to fire.
U-BOat Fires at Open Boat.
About fifteen men boarded raft
which was launched from the sinking
vessel just after 7:30 o'clock the
Ticonderoga sunk stern first The sub
marine then fired two shots at the only
open boat left. then went alongside the
iifeboat inquiring for the captain and
officers. Not finding the captain fhe
submarine took two seamen aboard
The executive officer was picked UP from
the wreckage and the C-boat went
alongside the raft taking of the first
assistant engineer and returning the two
seamen to the raft.
The men on the raft asked for medical
attention, but their request was ignored
and the raft was cut adrlft. The lfeboat
drifted near 1t, and five men were trans
terred to the boat 1t was planned TO
attach line to the raft. but the wind
blew the boat and the raft apart The
twenty-five men In the boat drifted for
four days and rights. finally being picked
up by the steamship Moorish Prince.
While | o mention OF the fact was made
in Tappley's report, 1t was plain that
fourteen OF the twenty-five men In the
open boat must have persisted during
their four days of drifting about In mid
ocean or after it as a result OF exposure
and privation. a. only eight were landed
by the rescuing steamship.
Missing Onicers and Men.
The members Of, the crew reported
missing are as follows:
LIeutenants.
BEEZET. William. East Boston. Mass.
MAGRUDER, Samuel s.. San Francisco
NORRIS. Norwin b., Memphis
SMITH. Harold r.. 1920 Fulton av.. New
Ensigns.
ROLAND, John j.. All jackson av., The
STAFFORD. Albert F.. Santa Barbara.
WOOD, Fred E, Wheatland, Okla.
WoopWARD. George w, HillsdaIe. Mich
WELLS, Rich r. mo record.
galley. G. @. Ono record.
Enlisted Men,
ALICKE. Rudolf, Hamburg. Germany.
ANDERSON. Victor Chicago.
BAKER. Dorsey. Decatur, Ala
BANKS, George, Charleston, S. C.
SAfL0R. BENJAMIN. Philadelphia.
BLANKENSHIP. Asa, Hampton, Va
AHERN, John b., Manchester, N II
BORELEWSKY. William. Grand Rapids.
Mich,
BoEX. Louis Borgis. Cincinnati.
BRADY, Edwin. Stone Mountain, Ga.
BREEDELOVE. Jesse, Norfolk, Va.
BROWN. John, Wallace. n, c.
CALHOUN. Elmer. Rockland. Idaho
CAMPBELL, James McAY Hamer. s. c.
CANTRELL, Evans, McKinnville, Tenn.
CARoLAN. James. Chelsea, Mass.