The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-02-14
STILL hope FOR kEAOSHAnS
War Department Today Declares That
Nearly Two Hundred Men Who Are
Believed to Have Survived Not
Been Accounted for in Cablegrams

kilograms from Washington today
brought the report that fourteen more
victims of the Tuscania were laid at
rest in a little Irish village on Tues
day afternoon but the same report says
that the government is now making Wig
orous efforts to get some facts in re-
gard to two hundred and twenty-eight
soldiers who sailed on the Tuscania who
have not been accounted for. Vagrant
reports were still coming in today tell
ing of survivors. Congressman HI. A.
Cooper and Sydney Maddox were Gag
erly watching every list that came into
the war department but up to room to-
day they had received no word of the
safety Of Corporal Arthur Junker or
Private Karl Hultenius of Kenosha.
"We are still hopeful that these two
boys names will be among the list of
survivors which may come in later, !"
was the comfort which Congressman
Cooper held out in his telegram just
after noon today.
Congressman Cooper says that the
government estimate of the loss has not
been changed and that officials are
confident that other reports of sur
yItors will come - later,
The story of the burial Of tine victims
of the Tuscania has heart interest
III Kenosha.
A correspondent on Monday assisted
in the burial of sixteen Americans,
bringing the total of those buried thus
far to 145 Fourteen bodies of Ameri-
cans were recovered on Monday and
were buried today. The bodies of eight
members of the crew also have been
recovered.
The burial was at the water edge,
ut the base of rocky cliffs, and was
picturesque in the extreme, All the
tiny villages for miles around were in
mourning for the Americans, and farm
and fisherfolll came great distances to
attend the ceremonies
Scottish Women Make Flag.
Twenty five American survivors Of
the disaster, who had been left behind
for the purpose, assisted the natives in
digging the graves into which the khaki
clad troops tenderly placed their dead
comrades.
Looking down from the top of the
cliffs, 300 feet above, stood the mourn
ers, headed by a British colonel and
an American private carrying an cold
Glory" made for the occasion by a
group of Scotch women, who, on learn
ing the Americans had no large flag,
obtained small silk handkerchief edi-
tion of the flag from sergeant and
remained up all night copying it on a
large scale.
Two clergymen came many miles and
read the Scotch and Episcopal services,
after which volunteers fired three vol
leys, which re-echoed against the hill
sides While this was going on, the only
photographer within twenty miles pho
tographed the mourners.
The ceremony was much the same as
was carried out at the same spot on
the previous day, when thirty-four
Americans were laid at rest in two
other graves.
Many Bodies Mutilated.
So badly mutilated were many of the
bodies that two American army Off
GERS who were sent from London ex
pressly for the purpose found it i'm
possible to take finger prints for identi-
fication purposes.
Wooden crosses, with distinguishing
numbers, have been placed on each
grave, all of which are enclosed by
temporary fences.
The bodies of the Americans have
come ashore thus far at eight widely
separated points along the coast. All
but fourteen, which were recovered on
Monday have been buried at three of
the most central points, or wkere the
greatest number were recovered. For
instance, at one point alone the funeral
rites were carried out over sixty sol
diers, who were washed up within a
stretch of coast line not longer than
two city blocks
Among the treacherous, low lying
rocks twenty miles farther north the
next greatest number was fourd-forty-
nine, Monday between these two points
fortyfour bodies were discovered in a
small cove, sixteen of which the cor
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