Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-04-15
Last Heard of Boat Was at
West India Island PORT Was
Bringing Manganese From
Republic of Brazil
CARRIED 221 CREW, 81
PASSENGERS, Is OFFICERS
F, B, GoIding of Silver City, N,
M, Registered at Storekeep-
err Among Those Aboard
Of Big Collier,
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tspEetAL orseArcs 70 MORNING JOURNAL
Silver City, N. NJ, April IT,
Frederick Burkner Golding, rated
as stOrekcepcr, whose name
appears among those aboard the
naval collier Cyclops, missing for
more than month, and sup
posed TO have gone to. the bot
tom, Is the son of MFR. and Mrs.
Robert w. GoIding of this city.
He was about % years of age,
and had been in the navy about
"A year. He was well known In
this city, having gone through
all the local schools.
His parents were notified this
afternoon by the navy depart
ment that his ship Is missing.
tar MOANING JOURNAL SPECIAL tsssso s,ssl
Washington, April 1.-THE big
American naval collier Cyclops. carry
ing 81 passengers. 15 officers and 22i
men in her crew, has been overdue at
an Atlantic port since March 10. Tho
navy department announced today
that she was last reported at a West
Indies island March 4, and that ex-
treme anxiety is entertained as to her
safety. The vessel was bringing a cargo
of manganese from Brazil.
Alfred L. Moreau Gottchalk, United
States consul general at Rio de jan
eiro was the only civilian among the
passengers on the collier the other
being the naval leutenants and fifty
four naval enlisted men returning TO
the United States. The Cyclops was
commanded by Lieutenant Commando
er G. w Morley. United States navaf
reserve force. 4
One Engine Disabled.
The Cyclops left the West Indies
with one of her two engines damaged,
but the department said this fact
would not have prevented her from
communicating by radio and all ef-
forts to reach her by that means have
been unsuccessful. A thorough search
of the course which she would have
followed in coming to port has been
made and continues, 1t was announced.
There have been no reports of Ger7
man submarines or raiders in the los
cality in which the collier was, the des
partment's statement said. The wealth
or had not been stormy and could'
hardly have given the collier trouble.
Navy Extremely Anxious.
The fact that the collier had been
missing nearly a month became known
here April II. The naval censor re-
auesied the Associated Press not to
publish the fact on the ground that
she ship had not been given up for
lost and that to publish the fact that
she was overdue might expose her 70
enemy attack while she might be dis
abled on the high seas. III
The official announcement by the
navy today does not give the ship up
for lost, but merely says the navy
department feels extremely anxious as
to her safety" IA
Formal statement Issued.
The statement issued BY the navy
department on the missing coliier
Cyclops follows:
The L. S. S. Cyclops, navy collier
of $4,000 tons displacement, loaded
with a cargo of manganese. and with
personnel on board of fifteen Off
| Gers and 22l men Of the crew. and
fifty-seven passengers, is overdue at
an Atlantic port since March 13. She
! last reported at one of the West In
dian islands on March and since
her departure from that port, NO
trace of her or any information con-
! cerning her has been obtained. Ra-
dio calls to the Cyclops from all pos
sible points have been made and ves-
sells sent to search for her along her
probable route and areas in which
she might be. with no success.
NO well-founded reason can be
| given to explain the Cyclops being
| overdue. as no radio communication
with or trace Of her has been had
| since leaving the West Indian port
'The weather in the area in which
| the vessel must have passed has not
| been bad and could hardly have Civ
| en- the Cyclops trouble. While raid
| err or submarine could be responsible
for her loss, there have been no re-
| ports that would indicate the pres
| ellce of either in the locality in which
the Cyclops was.
1T was known that one of the two
| engines of the Cyclops was injured
and that she was speeding reduced