Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-10-28 | Page 3 | No Far Western Men on Otranto

NO FAR WESTERN MEN ON OTRANTO WASHINGTON, Oct. 27. Names of 200 of the American soldiers who lost their lives in the sinking of the transport Otranto, October 6, in a collision with the steamer Kashmer off the Scottish coast, were made public tonight by the war department. Three hundred and seventy-two seventy-two soldiers are believed to have gone down with the ship, but the exact number num-ber will not be known until the checking of the names of survivors against the muster rolls of the units aboard has been completed. No far westerners were included in-cluded in tonight's list.