Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-03-22 | Page 3 | Losses Aboard the Vigilancia Total Fifteen

i. LOSSES iBOIBD ii huh TOm FIFTEEN Consul Stephens at Plymouth Plym-outh Forwards Names to State Department; No Loss on Memphis. LONDON, March 21, 8:38 p. m. Two British mine swcepera have been sunk by mines, according to an admiralty announcement to-1 to-1 night. In one caso there were no casualties; in the other fourteen ran are missing and are presumed to have bsen drowned. ' WASHINGTON, March 21. Complete reports' the arrival in Glasgow of ij".djii Borum and eight members of a- the crew of tho City of Memphis were j received today by tho state department from the American consul there, i "Captain reports vessel sunk 4 p. m., 17th, by German submarine, forty-four miles off Irish coast," the message read. ' "No resistance offered. Captain or-I or-I dered abandonment of ship immediate-j immediate-j ly. Warned by two shots across bow. Four boats wore launched with difficulty diffi-culty in rouph sea, taking off all crew, j "'Vessel Tvas subsequently sunk by gunfire. No other steamer in sight, j No assistance offered crew by submarine. subma-rine. Eighteen hours in open boats before be-fore rescued. "Total crew fifty-eight, thirty vrero Americans. Remaining crew reported landed in Ireland. "Crew landed at Glasgow included: H. O. Bevill, N. P. plausen, Charles Walker, David Jackson, Fred Prutting. S. Ludvigsen, Manuel Lopez, Manuel Barhrito. No casualties reported here.'' Consul Stephens at Plymouth reported report-ed tbe names of fifteen men of the Vigilancia's crew who were drowned when the ship was sunk. Those lost were: Neils P. North, third officer; C. I Aderhold, assistant engineer, of At-talla, At-talla, Ala.; Estphan Lopez, mess boy; F. Brown, carpenter, and Joseph Liberia, Li-beria, quartermaster, all Americans; A. Rodriguez, Porto Rican; Julio Mon-tero, Mon-tero, Peruvian; T. R-oodon, Venezuelan; A. Galitos and E. Dmitrios, Greeks; Joseph Jo-seph Livio, G. S. Sparrow, Juan Nesz, M. Vasquez and R. Gonzales, Spaniards.