The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-04-15
big AMERICAN
NAVAL COLLIER
.CYCLOPS is now
MONTH OVERDUE
Was ON Way to American
Port With Cargo Of
Manganese from Brazil


Washington. April 1s,-Ths hig
American naval collier, Cyclops.
carrying 81 passengers, Is oHcsrs
and 81 men In her crew. has been
overdue az an Atlantic port since
March Is. The navy department an
nounced today that she was last
reported at q West Indies island
March 4 and that extreme anxiety Is
entertained as to her safety. The
vessel was bringing q cargo o.
manganese from Brazil.
The fact that The collier has been
missing nearly q month became
known here Thursday. April IL, The
naval censor requested the Associat-
ed Press not to publish the fact on
the ground that the ship had not
been given UP for lost. and that 70
due might expose the Cyclops to
submarine or other enemy attack
while she might be disabled On the
hirh seas. The Official announcement
BY the navy today does not give the
ship IN for lost, but merely says the
navy department feels extremely
anxious as to her safety.
The statement follows:
The III. s. 8. CyciopS, navy collier
Of $4,000 tons displacement, loaded
with q cargo OF manganese. and with
personnel on board OF rs officers
and 22I men Of the crew and 81 pas
senEars. Is overdue at an Atlantic
port since March Is. The last re-
ported at one OF the West Indian is
lands on March a. and since her de-
partura from that port no trace o.
her nor any information concerning
her has been obtained. Radio calls
TO the Cyclops from all possible
points have been made and vessels
sent 10 search for her along her
probable route and areas in which
she might be. with no success.
NO well founded reason can he
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 given
the Cyclops trouble. While q raider
or submarine could be responsible
for her loss, there have been no re-
ports that would indicate the pres
ence OF either in the locality in which
the Cyclops was.
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engines Of the Cyciops was injured
and that she was proceeding at a re-
duced speed with one engine COM
pounded. This fact would have no ef-
feet on her ability 20 communicate
by radio, for even IL her main en-
Eines were totally disabled, the ship
would StiIl be capable OF using her
radio plant.
''The search for the Cyclops stiil
continues, but the navy department
feels extremely anxious as to her
safety.
Minnesota Men IN Crew,
There were four Minnesota men
included in the crew Of the Cyclops
as follows:
Harold Edward Daines, electrician.
CrookstOn: Arthur Bernard Emhret-
son. fireman. Zimmerman; Herman
Carl Schmi q IS b erg, fireman,
Rochester: Henry James Wilson,
seaman. Minneapolis.
Mystery unsolved.
Naval officials were no neared today
to a solution Of the disappearance
than they were three weeks ago when
anxiety over the safety Of the ship
first developed. There is absolutely
nothing on which to found an eE-
PLANTATION. The big carrier has simply
vanished.
Suggestions heard most frequently
were that German agents had boarded
the ship in jort and captured her at
sea; that she had broken in two and