| Show YANKS DIE DIEON DIEON ON SINKING SHIP British Transport t Oll Otranto auto Dashed to Pieces on all I Rocks ot elu 5 o oi of i Scottish Coast CoastS l Following Collision in N North T gift Channel l 1 With rith i S Steamship tt an Kashmir I During Terrific Gale Many l Men Melt Rescued A A A BRITISH PORT PonT Thursday Oct 10 By 10 By Associated Press A A large number of American American troops troop have been lost as the time result of the sinking n of the transport in in the North between the Scottish and Irish coasts in in a collision with the steamer Kashmir The Otranto after the collision was dashed to pieces on the rocks off oU the south bouth Scottish coast const with a probable probable probable able loss of 3 2 American soldiers Three hundred and one men were taken to Belfast by hy the British destroyer Mounsey the only vessel which made an an attempt at rescue in the time terrific gale when the Kashmir another vessel essel in the convoy oy with the Otranto rammed the time Otranto amidships Seventeen en men were picked up alive alive on the Scottish coast Of or the time American soldiers on onboard onboard onboard board the Otranto were landed Seventeen w were ere rescued alive c at Isla Islay leaving 32 unaccounted for Tho The Otranto and the other vessels of oC the con o convoy w were ere battling with the heavy seas and high h winds Sunday Sunda morning The Thc storm was so severe and the visibility so bad that the Kashmir Kashmir Kash Kash- I mir mtr a former Peninsular C Oriental liner crashed into the Otranto squarely square square- ly h amidships Tho The Kashmir backed awa away ba badly damaged but was able to make port Crippled Ship Eights Gale Golt GaleAs GaleAs As the bows of ot the Kashmir were pulled from the tho great hole in the side of or the Otranto the water rushed In but for Cor a time it did lid not serve to stop the tho en engines The fhe Otranto trl tried d to proceed but made no headway head against the gale galo ale In her hel crippled condition a short time tho time water put putout putout putout out her h r fires Ires and the thc Otranto drifted helplessly he toward limo tho rocky coast of pt Isla Islay Island where most of or the Tuscania fus cania victims met their deaths Thirty minutes after the crash the time British destroyer herself herselt damaged by the heavy seat seas appeared out of or the tho hazo haze In answer to time the distress dis lis- tress calls cals of or the Otranto When hen the destroyer destro maneuvered mancu to get et alongside alongside alongside along along- side Captain Davidson of ot the Otranto warned Lieutenant Craven commanding commandIng command- command Ing the destroyer cr not to make the at at- tempt Craven nOreN Attempt When hen It was seen sec that Craven would make mako the tho attempt nn a anyway the men were ordered to remove their shoes and heavy clothing and tr try to sa save sae e themselves as at best the they could The destroyer stood off about a athe athe athe the Otranto the men began to Jump nearer against the lime great odds odd of ot high waves and the tho wind which threatened momentarily to carr carry her entirely a away WO from Crom the Otranto or dash her herto herto herto to pieces ag against the tho side of or the wounded vessel As tho time destroyer neared tho the side of or orthe the Otranto the men began heJan to lo Jump from thirty to forty Cort feet from Crom her decks The Time more experienced sailors of or the tile crew cle of or the steamer had better better bet bet- ter success than titan the soldiers ninny many of qC whom had never ne seen tho sea until this trip 1 Men Leap for far Suret Safety As the destroyer steered toward the side aide of the thee steamer m many ny of the men leaped too quickly and missed their reckoning reckoning- and dropped between the boats botts Some of ot these disappeared In Inthe Inthe Inthe the water but others of them were caught and crushed to death between the tho boats and the life liCe boats which had been lowered to net act as buffers hurters The de destroyer tro cr was badly battered The rhe captain of or the destroyer each time it was wats brushed awn away from Crom the side altIc of or tho the Otranto again would push near neal enough for ninny many more mon to tg jump to the deck of or his vessel He Ile described as a veritable rain the number number number num num- ber of men landing landinA on tho the destroyer lan 1 Many of or those who reached the lire decks of the vessel suffered broken bones or otherwise were hurt rho Those o who missed tho the deck of ot the destroyer went to almost Instant death I lond Four times the battered destro destroyer er came camo alongside and each time the previous previous pre pre- scenes were repeated At t tho the end of the lime fourth trip she had no Americans of the ere cream creft 30 0 trench French Bailors and ono one British officer on onboard board The boat W was wan Ut full Cull and antI having done all possible she started for port Continued on P Pose Page gC 31 3 u. u S. S SOLDIERS DIE IN SEA COLLISION I Continued From P. P Page 1 4 The fhe survivors sur saw Tl the tho Otranto d drifting rl n hel helplessly towards the rocks of or Sall o La Lay Islay Island as us the they pulled a away wa toward the Irish coast Tho The destroyer barel barely had time to send senda a brief mel message age when her wireless was carried away The little overloaded vessel had a 0 rough trip to port One of ot the American troops on board I tho the Otranto pictured tl the o scene when the vessels collided d. d Soldiers lined tho thel I decks as aN though on parade and at the I word Avoid of command stood 1 at attention like 1110 statues I I All la is C I J IThe The They never wavered wa remain remaining Ins Ins- there thero thereIn I In military formation exemplifying I ii during tho the crisis the noblest tra traditions o of the arm army for tor heroism and discipline The The- same thing said the soldier ap ap- applied applied applied plied to the seamen I N Numbers Jm ers of or bodies today todar were being washed up rapidly on the tho shore It I was reported that had been counted at nt noon and nearly all of or them had been Identified t A seaman on the tho Otranto described the most moat tragic moment of ot the tho disaster as ns that when the order carne camo for the themen themen themen men to jump and save themselves The destroyer looked a n. yer very small boat alongside tho the former Orient liner and many landsmen among amons- the American troops thought ht themselves safer aboard the larger larg-cr vessel This was teas as fatal tatal to toman man many of or them to JJr Be f Collected The victims are oro to bo ho collected at the most suitable place and burled there A boat oat left lert Liverpool today with material ma- ma for tor coffins fifty tifty laborers and carpenters and chaplains to conduct the funerals The Tho s-l' s grave c of er e every man will willbe willbe wille be e marked d and charted There were vere a n. few cases sos among the tho dead where here Identification was wag delayed Eer Every man had worn an Identification tag on his wrist or neck but In some HomO Instances these were torn off ort and It was necessary to take finger prints of or orthe the tho men An Instance of or the many nany rescues by 11 bythe bythe the Mounsey was that of or T. T L I. L. L Campbell Campbell Campbell Camp Camp- bell a a Memphis lawyer lawer and a 3 secretary secretary secre secre- tary of oC the Y M. M r. r C. C A A. lIe Ito weighs wels-hs pounds He was perched on the Otranto's Otranto's Otranto's tos to's ra rail il awaiting awaiting- a n. chance to spring upon the tho destroyer the tho third tints the Mounsey came up As ho he leaped the tho Mounsey lurched awa away and Instead d of or landing landingIn in the middle of the deck as ho Ito had hoped to do one of ot his legs caught in the cable on the side of ot the destroyer Campbell pulled himself aboard uninjured lien 1 ron II N e Just when the l destroyer was pullIng pulling pull- pull Ing Ins away the last time sal said Campbell today tho the men lined tho the rails or stood on the after atter deck waving a a. faro faro- well A huge hUJe wave struck a crowd of ot about eighteen privates on the after after aft aft- er deck and a 3 dozen of of th them m were swept Into the tho sea to sure death as It was Impossible to save persons from Crom waves running sixty to seventy feet teet high As 50 soon on as we were away from the Otranto all tho the survivors were there ordered below in order to b better batter ballast the boat a as wo o were terribly crowded Campt Campbell cH said he left C. C A. A Carpenter of ot WIs Is on board the to Nothing has been heard from Car Car- penter Island Inland Isolated h by Storm Sloan The Tho first efforts to reach the tho Isle hIe of or lala Islay after altol the disaster failed tailed as tho the storm continued Arm Army officers however however how how- ever finally Get across while others pr proceeded down the coast arriving there yesterday They found little left of or the Otranto which each ench succeeding high wave nave was a breaking up Bodies v. v vero cro cre found till nil along lIons the coast some singly and others In twos an and threes As the arm army men proceeded down the coast to the point of or Isla Islay and then up to Port Charlotte they constantly found bodies that had been een whipped around the tho southern end o of tho island by tho the strange action of or the current Of or forty eight privates and noncommissioned noncommissioned noncommissioned noncom noncom- officers survivors sur of ot the Otranto who were admitted to the hospital hospital hospital hos hos- pital here twenty are nrc suffering from shock and sprains others ther- from frac- frac turned lC legs 8 arms arid and ribs and a few from scalds and lacerations Some of them ha have vo in Influenza fI The Otranto's captain stood on the bridge e until tho the last U. U S. S Soldiers Are Accounted For ForAn An Irish Port Wednesday Oct 9 9 CB By the Associated Pres Two Pres' Two hundred hundred hun hun- dr dred d and ninety five American soldiers from the tho transport Otranto and of ot the crew have been accounted for Cor but ut the fate fato of ot nearly moro more of oC tho the ships ship's company compan who were aboard the stricken transport when she drifted ashore Is still unrevealed In Int the hope of oC succoring those who succeeded In Infighting Infighting fighting CiS their wa way ashore through h the tho raging rag surf a party part o of eight Including physicians left here horo for tor a point farther north whence thc they embarked this morn morning Ins Ins- for Isla Islay island carrying carrin clothing medical and other supplies furnished by the American Red Cross It will be a deL day or two perhaps before news Is of of the tho outcome of or the mission Further details of or the work done b by bya a a. British destroyer In taking off from tho the Otranto and landing safely sareh hundreds hundreds hun hun- of ot soldiers and sailors bailors brought to this port accentuate the tho remarkable lo daring and skill of or tho the rescuing craft Even Hven after the survivors had hall reached tho the deck of or the tho destroyer their position position position tion continued desperate for mountainous mountain mountain- ous waves es repeatedly broke over o over the little vessel essel and accor according ln to reports swept about thirty persons overboard i Tube ruh SUM Save Torpedo i Inn Others iv W ware jre Ie saved from a similar fate rate by la lashing themselves TO u torpedo tub tubes s and tOll the destroyers destroyer's ture For nearly twelve hours the survivors sur- sur all w wet t through and tn man many ha badly bad bad- Iv ly injured were exposed to the fury of ot the tho wind and aud the waves until the destroyer made mad port five Fifty survivors ors were hurried Into ambulances and rushed to to hos hos- ho Others were taken to a British barracks where the American Red ned RedCross Cross CroAs quickly fitted thorn thom out with a complete change of clothes clothe and all wore given lot lint food and stimulants Many Tan of them wore were weak from flom the tho exposure ex exposure expO ex- ex pO Ule and awl strain Private Raymond Simpson died on the destroyer frond trona In InJuries Injuries Injuries In- In juries and antI and burled today Tho The Otranto was waa the tho flagship of a largo large convoy Including the Kashmir which as ns the lp result of ot a h heavy a gale became unmanageable A thick rain I clothed In on I the con o convoy Sunday morning mornIng morn- morn i Ing off otc the coa coast t of or Ireland allt and about I 9 o'clock tho the Otranto was rammed amidships Other Vr h lN On OU Although h the Otranto's commander realized the ship probably was fatally fatall damaged ho lie ordered the other vessels to proceed Including th the Iho Kashmir T which kick was able ahll le to continue Under tinder her own boil and eventually made marto port The Otranto's case seemed l The gale s was then at nt Its worst and the theseas theseas seas leas running seventy five j feet teet high There was no itO chance chanco of or launching the I boa Loat boats In and as s the tho en engines had stopped Q as a result of or the fires hoes being put out by bytho bytho tho the wrier the big vessel was wasat wasat i at the them m mercy rc of or the waves and amI drifted rapidly before the tho storm Soon the ship began beJan to list and the soldiers soldiers' and crew under perfect discipline discipline discipline dis dis- moved In a body to the ther tho the vessel from side thus preventing I capsizing Suddenly through h the mist loomed a small destroyer which had picked up the Otranto's distress sig sig- nals The destroyer herself was partly disabled by cn engine lne trouble Seven of or orthe the boats were cre lowered to the water to act net as a buffer for Cor the de destroyer destroyer Ie- Ie which with wonderful won erful seamanship seamanship seamanship sea sea- manship maneuvered close to the I steamers steamer's side The order to nhan abandon on ship was given and the officer r commanding the troops Instructed the tho men to remove their overcoats and shoes Scores then be bean began hean he- he gan an leaping from the rails mila forty feet Ceet a above o e to the destroyers destroyer's deck The fhe Otranto a vessel of oC t gross tons was built at Belfast In 1909 She was 53 feet lon long and had a beam of ot sixty four feet feeL She was owned by the Orient Steam Navigation company limited of or London The Thc r a vessel of or gross ross tons was In 1915 at Greenock Scotland She was owned by the P P. P O. O Steam Navigation atlon company compan of ot London London Lon Lon- don on Group of American Survivors Named A Scottish Port Wednesday Oct 9 leans survivors of The following following- Amei Americans o the Otranto all alI of ot them privates have been landed here Charles 12 K Smithson David I R R. Roberts Roberts Rob Rob- erts erts ris George S S. Taylor Talor Earle Barle Garver Carver Steward Early Noah Taylor William Cooney Coone ro Robert Hobert rt F. F Thomas A A. Kell Kelly Ben Smith Robert nobert Brown Joeph Jo Jo- eph S Richards s. s William Richards s r Emil Petersen Joseph JosephL M M. Sen Sergt t. t Charles 3 MacDonald all from the Fort Seren automatic replacement draft and John E. E Wean Yean casual cazual com coin pany Camp Merritt N. N J. J Denver Officer Describes Disaster r rBy By Service London Oct 11 Four Four hundred I American soldiers were lost when the British Otranto collided with another British h vessel the Kashmir ort oft Isla Islay Island Sunday This Is te the estimate of ot United States nay navy headquarters s here More ilore than a hundred bodies already have been washed ashore on the tho rock rock- ribbed coast of or Isla Islay Lieutenant of or Denver Den Colo who was among amons- th the survivor survivors said sald to |
