The circle banner., 1918-02-22
TO MEN REPORTED
LOST ON TUSCAN|A
LIST OF RESCUED STILL FAR
FROM COMPLETE AND FUR
THEIR CHANGES EXPECTED.
BURIED ON SCOTCH COAST
People of Countryside Have Started
Public Subscription to Erect
Permanent Monument in
Honor of Americans.

Washington, Feb. 14.-War depart
ment advices indicate that very few
Americans soldiers lost their lives in
the destruction of the liner Tuscania
in addition to the 164 reported as
buried ON the Scottish coast. The lat
est reports place the American loss
at not more than 10 of the 2,179 who
were on board the ship, although the
list of rescued is still far from COM
plete.
Seven additional survivors have been
officially reported, reducing the de-
partments list of those not recorded
as saved to about 260. The Associated
Press list of the unreported, made up
by checking both official and unoffi-
cial advices against the Tuscania's
passenger list. was reduced to Ill.
The war department is exchanging
daily long cabiegrams with the em-
bassy at London in an effort to COM
plete the survivors, roll and untangle
names garbled in transmission. In
spite of the fact that only some 260
of those on the passenger list are OF
ficially unaccounted for the depart
ment has more than 21O names OF
survivors which it has been unable TO
decipher About 40 of these are sup
posed to be Implications and as many
more are names of men of whom there
is no record.
The last II of these bodies recovered
were all Americans-were buried this
afternoon, villagers again coming
many miles in dOwnpour of ram to
pay their tribute to the American
dead. The bodies were brought to the
burial place on one big motor truck
which was followed along the route
several miles long by the squad ot
% khaki-clad American survivors ana
the village mourners. One of the vii
layers carried the Union Jack, while
an American soldier held aloft the
Stars and Stripes.
Services Are Held.
At the grave side the American sol
1iers sang 1.-The Star Spangled Ban
ner." followed by the natives singing
God Save the King" The usual mill
-ary salute was then fired, ending the
ceremony.
Temporary fences have been placed
around the graves to be replaced by
permanent enclosure as soon as the
materials can be brOhgIlr TO these des-
,late shores. A British colonel who
las worked day and night since the
Iisaster helping the Americans bury
heir dead, announced that the people
f the nearby countryside had started
public subscription to erect a perna-
ent monument TO the Americans.
There are eight Americans still here.
90 i'll to leave, several of them still%
azed by their experiences. They are
uartered in nearby farm houses and
illage hotels.
Men in Hospital.
One American officer and IA men
re still in a hospital at Glasgow.
Each body, whether identified or
OF, was given a number, thus at
Dint where rs victims were buried
de by side in a long trench the num-
ers run from 1 to rs.
At another point in long grave
'e 40 bodies. They are all in coffins
Id are numbered from l to 40.
Fill Three Trenches.
AT third place Al victims are
lried in three trenches, the largest
,ldng IS bodies, another 16 and a.
ind TO- In the first named the bodies
I'VE been numbered from 1 to is