The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-27
Tug Cherokee Founders During
Heavy Gale OFF Delaware.
Only Ten Survivors Out of
Crew of Forty Men.
BRITISH HOSPITAL SHIP SUNK
American Torpedo Boat Picks
Up Some of Survivors.
No Patients Were Aboard When
GIenart Castle Went Down.

Washington Feb. 27.-Thirty Off
GERS and enlisted men of the naval tug
Cherokee are believed to have been
lost when the vessel foundered yester-
day morning in a fierce gale off Fen
wick island lightship, twenty-five
miles from the Delaware capes Ten
survivors who got away on the first
raft were safely landed; four other
men got away on another raft but two
were washed overheard and drowned
ana the other two died probably of
exposure The four bodies were TAX
en- into Philadelphia.
The Cherokee formerly was a tug
of the Luckenbach steamship line and
not long ago was requisitioned by the
government.
The cavy department issued this
statement:
1.-The navy department is advised
that the U. S. S. Cherokee, a navy
tug, foundered yesterday morning off
the Atlantic coast OF the forty
aboard-five officers and 35 enlisted
men-ten men have been landed at
Philadelphia. Four dead were picked
up by steamships.
1.-The ten known survivors got away
in the first life raft. Four got away
on the second life raft but two were
washed overheard and the other two
were dead when picked up by a Brit
iSh steamer.
Announce Ten Survivors Names
The navy department later made
public the names of the ten survivors
landed at Philadelphia. They are:
Bcatswain E. NJ. Sennott, U. S. N. r.
F., Boston, Mass; l.. P. Ackerman,
seaman H. P. Pointer, fireman; r. J.
Hall, seamon; c. E. Barker, chief ma
chinist's mate; r. A. fSozeck, fireman;
P. H. Warmack, fireman; A. A Wall
| i'm. oiler: E. L. Gudgel, fireman, and
B F. Brumfield, radio electrician.
Philadelphia. Feb. 27.-The British
steamship Admiral anchored in the
| Delaware off the League island navy
yard this morning. The state quar-
| antine station at Harcus Hook. Pa,
seventeen miles below Philadelphia,
| reported over the telephone that the
Admiral had signalled as she passed
up that she had on board ten survivors
and the bodies of ten of the crew of
the Cherokee.
| Hospital Ship Goes to Bottom.
London, Feb. 27-The British hos
/ pital ship G,enart Castle was sunk
/ yesterday in the Bristol channel, it
was announced officially. There
! were no patients on board Survivors
/
boat. light boats are still adrift.
| The fflenart Castle, 6,S07 tons gross
and 440 feet long, was built at Bel
I fast in 1906. She was owned in
/ Southampton. The Bristol channel is
an arm of the Atlantic extending into
! the southwestern part of Great Brit
ala between England and Wales.
| The official report follows:
| THE British hospital ship Glenart
! Castle was sunk in the Bristol channel
at a. m. yesterday Sh, was out
burning. There were no patients on
board
Survivors have been landed by an
American torpedo boat destroyer.
Eight. boats are still adrift. Further
information will be published as re-
ceived."
/ Report 1874 Lost of Hospital Ship
London, Feb. 27.-According to the
Exchange Telegraph Co, 164 persons
are missing from the Glenart Castle
"a Survivors Landed in Wales Port
/, Swansea, Wales, Feb. 27.-Thirty-
four survivors of the G1enart Castle
have been landed here. The number
of persons on board is said to have
been 200.
/ Was 273 Ton Craft.
j New York, Feb. 27.-The tug
Cherokee formerly was known as the
Edgar F. Luckenbach and was requi
sitioned by the United States navy in
October, 1917. She was built in 1891
at Camden, n. J., and registered 81;
tons gross. The tug prior to being
taken over for government use wa.
engaged in towing barges between
north Atlantic coast ports.