Arizona republican., 1918-10-11
HUN PIRATES AGAIN RESUME BRUTALITY
 ON THE HIGH SEAS
Ticonderoga Torpedoed In
 Mid-Ocean - Scores are Drowned and Many Are
 Killed by Shrapnel
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AN ATLANTIC PORT. Oct. 10.- Scores of American sailors were Killed or wounded by shrapnel fired by German submarine after 1t had torpe- doed the steamship Ticonderoga HOO miles off the Atlantic coast, according 10 the story told by 20 survivors who ar rived here today aboard British freighter
 There were 245 men aboard the Iii conderoga, an American steamship of 5,130 tons, and all but the 20 who ar rived here today are believed to have perished. The survivors got away in the only boat which was not demol- ished by the shell fire from the subma- rine, they said. Seventeen of the men who reached port were members of a detachment of soldiers detailed to care for horses which were being tran sported.
 Attacked Without Warning
 The Ticonderoga was attacked, pre- sumably on October ?, when she fell behind her convoy because of engine trouble,
 According to the story of the SUIT vivOrs, the submarine was not sighted until she had sent torpedo crashing
 
 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 shells" said one of the survivors. The forward gun was shot away almost at once. The after gun and it's crew was done for almost as i quickly. Then the men went to the boats, but it was no use, as the flying shrapnel was spraying the decks ana men fell in scores, either killed or | badly wounded"
 Swimming Man Threatened 1 Another survivor declared that all l of the Ticonderoga's eight lifeboats with the exception of one, were riddled with shrapnel before they could be 1 launched. number of men who tried | to get into the eighth boat were killed | by shrapnel as they clambored over the side of the vessel, he said. Finally" this survivor continued ''one of our men, in desparation swan close to the submarine and hailed an officer, asking him in Gods name to stop firing.
 "The lieutenant who answered him did so with a loaded revolver saying that if he did not swim back he would shoot him.
 When our boat had only 20 men in it, we were ordered alongside the sub marine and made to tie up while the shelling of the dead and dying on the sinking ship continued.
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 'The leader of our boat was asked some questions which he refused tc answer and suddenly the submarine submerged and only the parting of the rope with which we were tied. pre- vented our going down with it.
 One of the survivors said the subma rine was of the cruiser type and had the largest guns he had ever seen on submarine. One of the engineer officer. he said, whose room was pierced by z shell from the submarine, declared that the shell was an eight-inch prof ectile. Heretofore. only six-inch gun. have been reported on submarines.
 The survivors, who were adrift fo four days before they were picked up said that a raft with five wounded mer on it had been put off from the Ticon deroga, and that they had attempted to tow it with them but that it brok. away during the night and disap peared.