Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-09-09

IN BOAT SUB
TRIED DTOBAG
Democratic Whip on Troop
Ship Torpedoed- Safe
" Back in Port.

washington. D. c Sept Sen
,,or Lewis OF Illinois was aboard
~ United States army transport
Mount Vernon when it was tor
rs5oad homewsrd bound last Thurs
tsv. The senator, who was return
s7g from q visit TO the scene Of war,
vss not injured and was among
.,osA landed in France a day or TWO
.tsr when the Mount Vernon
reached port under lis own steam,
though damaged.
Thirty-fve members Of the crew
vere killed by the explosion.
The Mount Vernon before the war
vas the huge German passenger
Hner the kr0nprInzessin Cecilie-
Only Survivor Named.
Senator Lewis was returning on
The transport presumably as the
ruest Of the government and is the
Gnlv survivor named in the state
ment issued by the navy depart
uent The department said.
The navy department has re-
eeived a dispatch from Vice Admir-
e, Sims stating that 50 men were
Killed By the explosion when the
L. S. S. Mount Vernon was struck
by q torpedo. The Mount Vernon
has. reached port and all the mem
bers OF the crew are reported saved.
Senator James Hamilton Lewis
Of Illinois was on the ship return
,ng from Europe and was among
tose reported safely landed.
2OO Niles Out
The Mount Vernon was torpe-
d0ed last Thursday about TWO hun
dred miles from the French coast,
hut put back 10 port under her own
steam. The dispatch states that
the torpedo struck the ship on the
slarboard side, flooding No fire
room. but the extent Of the dam
age is not stated.
Had the Mount Vernon suffered
no mishap, Senator Lewis would
have arrived home in time TO vote
al the Illinois primaries next We'd
nssdEy. u Thich he is q candidate
for denomination by the Democrats.
He evidently had brought his in
spectiOl of the allied war machine
10 q close in order to reach home
before the polls closed. but his en-
forced return to France upset this
plan completely.
List OF Casualties.
Since the vessel was able to
reach port under its own power. it
is thought il was not badly dam
aged. The men killed were firemen.
enginemen and water tenders. and
probably were on duty in the food
cd frerOOm. Those from the mid
ole west were.
h. R. Beauchamp, WilIfamsett,
Mass
F. J, Bergman. Madison. Wis.
NJ. F G Buder. Webster, Mass.
r H. Burke, Auburn. Me.
VI. F. Burns, I29 Eutaw street,
East Boston. Mass.
r o. Carver, POplarviile. Miss.
J. f Crabtree. Beaver. Ohio.
P. H. Crockett Raven. Va.
@. H. Dukes, Hendersonville, \.
Carolina.
". P. Flynn. 213 Green street
cambridge, Mass.
D. B. Frye. Conway. :. c.
q, o. Green. Pa Gerard avenue,
n, Minneapolis.
G. 2. Hager. Memphis. Tenn.
J. T. Half0rd, 1874 Maple avenue,
Hartford. Conn.
r. Hancock. RentOn. Wash
Lambreth Hardy, Sarepta, Miss.
Bert Heap, san HcTnardinO, Cal
Leon Heath. HinCkley. MINI.
F. R Huffman. Newberry. Ind.
F. Kinch. ass East Tweuty-sev-
e1th street Peterson. y J.
Louis Lafargue, Vallejo, Cal
. o. J. Ninkau, 10 LOOmis street,
Rochester. \. Y.
A. " Morse, f6 Chase avenue,
Aanchesfer. y. Y.
Harvey humm. L,eesburE. Tex
A. G. Petersen. Cattaraugus. y. 7.
H. C. Plew, Malage, CheIan Coun-
y, Wash.
Ohio.
c. ] Satan. 4aa Wood street.
IniIadelphja
v. Fl. Schultz. III Forty-second
Street Brooklyn.
s. G.
". StaI'y. address not given in
Aayy department records.
Daniel Terrell. 1914 Locust street,
d Joseph. No.
, senator Lewis has visited Great
. Iiiain and France and the western
'front.'
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