The Benson signal., 1918-02-16
a. DEAD BODIES
WASHED ASHORE
U-BOAT THAT TORPEDOED THE
TRANSPORT TUSCANIA BE-
LIEVED SUNK.
OTALCUTTO1 101
TROOPS LEAP TO DECKS OF BRIT.
IsH TRANSPORT SINGING
NATIONAL ANTHEM.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
An Irish Port, Feb. 8.-The Tus-
cania, torpedoed and sunk off the
north coast of Ireland by German
submarine Feb. 5, carried total Of
1897. The saved number 1926, as fol-
lows: Troops, 2,106; crew, 100; total
lost, 1O1. Among the American sur
vivors are seventy-siX officers There
are eighty-one American troops in
hospital. The bodies of forty-four of
the missing 101 victims of the Tus-
cania disaster were washed up Thurs
day on the rocks fifteen miles from
the scene of the torpedoing. All were
tilated beyond recognition.
A pathetic feature is that, although
all the victims wore tags, no identifi-
cation numbers had been put On them
because these Americans had not yet
been assigned to definite army units
Therefore there is no way to identify
them, and they will be buried in one
grave.
Londonderry, Ireland, Feb. S.-The
submarine which torpedoed the Tus-
cania was attacked by a destroyer
An American officer gave an intima-
tion that the submarine was destroyed
This officer was next to last to leave
T1IcN nj Uiui or
count of the disaster. The second tor
pedo fired by the submarine missed
it's mark, he said. Thereupon a de-
stroyer which was near the sinking
liner dashed off toward the subma-
rine, using a bomb-dropping device.
The claim is made that the submarine
was "done in" by the bombs thus ex-
ploded.
London, Feb. 8.-Sergt. E. G. Du.
buque and Sergeant Muller, both OF
Brooklyn, who were on the Tuscania,
were rescued from a raft by a coasting
schooner.
The sergeants say that the Tuscania
took tremendous list to starboard al
most as soon as she was hit. Almost
all the lifeboats on that side were
either blown into the air or otherwise
rendered useless.
The soldiers were Immediately lined
up, and while standing at attention as
one man, began to sing "My Country,
'Tis of Thee,' and "The Star Spangled
Banner" The crew, which lined up on
the opposite side, sang God Save the
King"
An Irish Port, Feb. 8.-Most of the
Americans were lost through the Tus-
cania's sudden heavy list after being
torpedoed, which caused faulty launch
ing of the lifeboats.
The German torpedo struck the Tus-
cania a vital blow amidships, causing
her to list almost to starboard.
Instead of plowing forward in this
fashion, as most vessels do under the
circumstances, the Tuscania stopped
dead. A shiver ran through her, and
she heeled over at a dangerous level.
The list to starboard so elevated the
lfeboats on the port side as to render
them practically useless, and only a
few of the boats on that side were
launched The first of these struck
the water unevenly, capsizing and
throwing the occupants into the sea-.
Many donned lifebelts and jumped
overheard Hundreds of others were
preparing to follow this example when
a British destroyer boldly drew up
right alongside the Tuscania When
the men saw this many of them leaped
from the boat and salon decks to that
of the waiting destroyer.
The destroyer took off several hun
dred men, all she could carry, and
moved away. She had come up along
the starboard side of the Tuscania.
AS she steamed away with her deck
loaded down with Americans, another
British destroyer emerged out of the
darkness on the Tuscania port, now
high out of the water.
All the time this rescue york was
progressing cool heads were getting
the few other lifeboats afloat. Despite
the many difficulties the crew behaved
we'll and the GOODNESS of the American
soldiers was the subject of commenda-
tion in affidavits by the boats officers.
Forty of the survivors were taken to
hospitals. In the majority of cases,
they are suffering from injuries as a
result of accidents in the lowering OF
lifeboats or in consequence of sliding
down ropes.
Proof of the order which prevailed
on the Tuscania is given by the land
ing of two typhoid and two pneumonia
cases without bad effect.
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