The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-30

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lment of the American positions Sun
day morning, evidently fearing an at
tack The American artillery took up
1.-The challenge and the duel continued
for several hours, being particularly
violent from eight p. m. to midnight.
| All this time, rifles and machine guns
/ on both sides were busy.
Today's Casualty Lis..
| WASHINGTON. April Softly
eight casualties listed by the war de-
partment today showed two deaths
in action today, two from accident,
six from disease. five severely wound
ed, forty-two slightly wounded and
one missing in action.
The list follows:
Killed in action:
Captain Richard Laurence Jet,
Private Herbert G. Raymond.
Died of accident:
Private Eldridge Cope, William w.
Washington.
Died Of disease:
Captain Charles A. Chambers,
Priyates Orris Pearlmuggett, Preston
Noel, Clarence Everett Brown. James
Bates, Ray L. Sieber.
Severely wounded:
Sergeants Thomas j. Curtin, Ger
aid S. Patton, Privates Michael F.
Davis, Leonard F. Sylvia, John Levi
Smith.
Missing in action:
Private Arsene Bergeron.
War department corrections:
Name of Lieutenant Thomas J.
Mooney, previously reported dead in
action, now believed to be error in
cable.
Private Jesse NJ. King, previously
reported dead of gunshot wounds,
now reported slightly wounded.
Lieutenant John W. Morris, prev
iously reported wounded severely.
now reported prisoner, unwounded.
The slightly wounded list shows
three lieutenants injured:
Robert D. -Coeye, Rufus B. Grain.
Francis Worthington Hine.
Fired on Life Boats.
LONDON, April 3O.-Several of the
fifty-seven American Y. NJ. C. A. men
from the British steamer Oronsa
which was torpedoed Sunday, declar-
ed today that the submarine fired on
the life boats. The ITO passengers,
many of whom were Americans, were
all saved. Three of the crew are
utes.
The Oronsa was a twin screw steel
steamer Of S,075 tons, built in 1906.
She was owned by the Pacific Steam
Navigation company and was register
ed in Liverpool.
Running Fight With U Boat.
WASHINGTON, April 3O-A. IS.
Edwards, Augusta, Ga, member OF the
gun crew, and two members of the
ships crew, were killed March 81,
when the American steamship Chin
cha had a running fight with large
enemy submarine The U boat after
thirty shots had been exchanged,
was forced to submerge, the navy
department announced. The Chincha
had her first experience with q boats
when she was attacked January IS.
The submarine was sighted on the
afternoon of March 81, says the navy
department statement, and about two
minutes later both the Chincha and
the diver began firing. The forth
boat shot struck the Cinca aft and kill.
ed Edwards and two members of the
ships crew.
E. D. Arnold, CHIEF boastwain's
mate in charge Of the armed guard,
SdiO LuS submarine was OF u large type,
having two coming towers and mount
ing two five inch guns.
The first encounter on January IS,
described by E. E Nordquist, who
was then in charge of the armed guard,
lasted about an hour.
The men who sighted the submarine
and are mentioned in the reports are:
E. E. Norduqist, Superior, Wis;
Elmer D. Arnold, Carmel, md, Allen
Seth Edwards, killed, Augusta, Ga,
and Jack Weiman, Castalia, Ohio.
Americans on List
OTTAWA, Ont, April 30.-The fol-
lowing Americans are mentioned in
today's casualty lists:
Wounded:
Lieutenant A. G. Kemmis, Sand
point, Idaho, and H Dobson, Turner,
Mont
Take Them to London.
LONDON, April 30.-AlI American
wounded in France, will, in the future,
be brought to England, it was learned
here today.
A 1900 bed hospital in Liverpool
is in charge OF the American Red
Cross with a staff of American phys
icians and attendants. This is de-