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Show GUT YANK TilSlT ins Vettel Sinks at N. J. Pier Shortly Before It Was to Sail With 8000 Americans for France y Asltd Prt. HOBOKEN, N. J, Oct. t5. Shortly before tht American tramport America, formerly . the German traniatlantia pamcngrr tfamihip Amerika, wu about to all today fur Europe with aoldlrra and aupplloa, Uia veaaat foundorad at hr plar hara. la tha aarly mornlns darknaaa.'whlla tha troop aboard urara ilaaplna. tha America, aattlad with har kaal In th mud, laaylnr only thra of har al(ht daeka. tosathar with parta of har funr ala,abova watar. ko far a known up to noon thara waa loaa at Ufa. Earlier reporta war that batwaaa thirty and forty of tha araw had parlahad after being trapped In the hollar room. CAU A MY8TBRY. Troop ware plaoed on guard oulalde tha plar and detaUa retarding tha alnk-Inf alnk-Inf war denied to Inquire re. The eaua of the aooldant remained a mya-tary, mya-tary, even to feavy department offlolala. A theory azpraaaed In aom quartan that water poured Into the hold a a raault of unootnpleted repalra apparently appar-ently did not conform with the fact that tha ahlp waa ready to weigh anchor an-chor today for a foreign port. It waa learned that a gang of ma-chlnleta ma-chlnleta waa at work at tha time the veeeel aettled, and It waa auageatad that ana of tha men Inadvertantly opened a eeaeock under tha Impreaaloa that ha waa oloalng It CARftltD MOO MIN. Tha aubmergnd America, mil to the v largeat of tha government' tranaporta, waa within alght of peraona eruaalng the lower Hudaon river on ferry boata. Tho America, of IM23 tuna groaa. ha a oapaalty for oarrylng luu troopa and a rw of 1100 men. Of the troupe. It waa aald that only 100 or KiO ware n board at tha time. All tha coal had been plaeed In the bunker except a email portion to have been loaded today. Inaamuch a all the tronpa and erew are reported t have eeoaped. II waa believed the treaeel aank alowly. 0L0IIRI ASLttP. Th (Inking occurred at I o'clock thl Morning, while moat of tha troopa war (till la their bertha. In their hurried hur-ried eesape from tha ahlp to th pier moat of them had no time to don Ihalr lothae. Th Had Croaa waa railed on for aa. latent and anon trucka filled with hlanketa, clothing and food arrived at th pier tar distribution among the enMlere |